Art Brut – Japan – Switzerland
International Symposium

PROGRAM

Friday, October 17
Zurich University main building, room KOL_H-317 (floor H)

09:00 – 09:30 Registration

09:30 – 10:00
Welcoming Remarks
Prof. Dr. Hans Bjarne Thomsen(University of Zurich)
Director Dr. Monika Jagfeld (Museum im Lagerhaus)

10:00 – 12:30
Panel 1: Basic Concepts
Panel Chair: Prof. Dr. Bettina Gockel (University of Zurich)

"Outsider Switzerland"
Daniel Baumann (Curator, Adolf Wölfli-Stiftung, Museum of Fine Arts
Bern)

"Gugging: The Development from Psychiatry to an Art Museum"
Johann Feilacher (Director, Museum Gugging, Vienna)

-- coffee break --

"Responding to Outsider Art"
Prof. Dr. Roger Cardinal (University of Kent)

Discussions

12:30 – 14:00 lunch break


14:00 – 16:30
Panel 2: Japan and Art Brut
Panel Chair: Director Dr. Daniel Studer (Historisches und
Völkerkundemuseum, St. Gallen)

"The Construction of Discrimination, Dread, and Salvation: Depiction of
Outsiders in Japanese Medieval Narrative Handscrolls"
Prof. Satomi Yamamoto (Kyoritsu Women's University, Tokyo)

"Could Photography Reveal an Interior World?"
Mario Del Curto (Art Brut Photographer)

-- coffee break --

"Omnipresence of Foreign Cultures: Original Images of Assorted Sages"
Prof. Dr. Shunroku Okudaira (Osaka University)

Discussions

17:00 – 17:30
Special Greetings
Ambassador Ryuhei Maeda (Japanese Embassy in Switzerland)
Rector Prof. Dr. Michael Hengartner (University of Zurich)
Dr. Peter Schorer (President Foundation Board, Museum im
Lagerhaus/Stiftung für schweizerische Naive Kunst und Art Brut)

17:30 – 18:30
Keynote Speaker
"Japanese Art But: The International Context"
Edward Gomez (Senior Editor, Raw Vision)

18:30 Reception Dinner with Speakers, Panel Chairs, and Organizers in
Zurich


Saturday, October 18
St. Gallen, Architektur Forum Ostschweiz at Lagerhaus (close to the
Museum im Lagerhaus)

09:30 Arrival in St. Gallen

09:45 – 10:00
Welcoming Remarks
Prof. Dr. Hans Bjarne Thomsen (University of Zurich)
Director Dr. Monika Jagfeld (Museum im Lagerhaus)

10:00 – 12:30
Panel 3: Art Brut as Exhibition
Panel Chair: Director Dr. Michaela Reichel (Textilmuseum St. Gallen)

"The Birthplaces of the Fascination and the Artworks of Japanese Art
Brut"
Mizue Kobayashi (Art Director, Aiseikai Tokyo)

"The Collection de l'Art Brut and the Dissident Productions of Japan:
Encounters and Collaborations"
Sarah Lombardi (Director, Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne)

-- coffee break --

"The Cooperation of Governmental Agencies in the Promotion of Art Brut
in Japan"
Keng? Kitaoka (Chairperson, Shiga Prefectural Social Welfare
Organization)

12:35 – 14:00 Lunch break


14:00 – 15:00
Panel 4: Art Brut in the Academia
Panel Chair: Kathrin Linder (Museum im Lagerhaus)

"Art Brut as Seen by an Art History Professor"
Prof. Dr. Bettina Gockel (University of Zurich)

"The Biographies of Art Brut Artists - A Closer Look"
Sarah Rebecca Schmid (Student University of Zurich)

15:00 – 16:30
Final Discussions and Remarks

Prof. Dr. Hans Bjarne Thomsen (University of Zurich)
Director Dr. Monika Jagfeld (Museum im Lagerhaus)

16:30 – 18:00
Reception
Museum im Lagerhaus

18:00 Dinner for speakers, panel chairs, and organizers in St. Gallen


For a more detailed program including abstracts, go to:
http://www.museumimlagerhaus.ch/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Program_International-Art-Brut-Symposium.pdf

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ADDRESSES:
University of Zurich
Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich
Tel: +41 (0)44 634 11 11

Floor plan:
http://www.plaene.uzh.ch/KOL/floor/H?z=6&lon=951811.74744172&lat=6003424.9123264&f=showAll&w=938&h=565&m=marker_building_KOL

(The welcome desk inside the entrance of the main building can guide you
on how to get to the room.)

Museum im Lagerhaus
Stiftung für schweizerische Naive Kunst und Art Brut
Davidstrasse 44
9000 St. Gallen
Tel: +41 (0)71 223 58 57
www.museumimlagerhaus.ch

Architektur Forum Ostschweiz at Lagerhaus (close to the Museum im
Lagerhaus)
Davidstrasse 40
9000 St. Gallen
https://goo.gl/maps/Q1MST