Workshop:
Confronting Matter: Artistic Practices and Discourses of Sciences and Technologies in Postwar Japanese Art

Venue: Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Room 2.2058 & Room 2.2059

Program

13:15–13:30 Opening Remarks (Tomoko Mamine, Berlin)
13:30–14:30 Tatami and Wood: Ink Rubbings and the Discussion of Materiality in Postwar Japanese Calligraphy and Art (Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer, Heidelberg)
14:30–15:30 Materials Matter: Gutai between the Wars (Vera Wolff, Zurich/Basel)
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–17:00 The Material is the “Massage”? Embodying Semiotic Transformations (Gabrielle Schaad, Zurich)
17:00–18:00 A Matter of Time: Gutai’s Experimentations with Physicality in Art (Tomoko Mamine, Berlin)

18:15–20:00 Evening Talk by Reiko Tomii, New York
Matsuzawa Yutaka’s Art of Kannen: Transcending Physical Time-Space

The workshop will be hosted by the DFG Research Group 1703 "Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art. Comparative Perspectives on Historical Contexts and Contemporary Constellations", Research Unit C2 "World Art and the World of Art – Then and Now", Concept: Tomoko Mamine