International Symposium & Performance:

Saying Yes to Say No: Art and Culture in Sixties Japan
University of Michigan Museum of Art

In conjunction with the exhibition Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art:
Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan
1950-1970, UMMA will present a two-day international
symposium and performance considering experimental
art of 1960s Japan in a broader cultural and geographical
context. The symposium begins with a keynote lecture
delivered by Reiko Tomii, an independent scholar and leading
authority on postwar Japanese art, followed by
a special performance by Ei Arakawa, a New York-based
artist (renowned for his inter-subjective group performances),
who will reinterpret the legacy of the Japanese avant-garde.

The second day of the symposium features papers by an
international host of speakers, including Hiroko Ikegami
(Osaka University, Japan), Ryan Holmberg (University of
Southern California), Jonathan Hall (Pomona College and
Meiji Gakuin University), and Midori Yoshimoto (New Jersey
City University).

Generously funded by the Center for Japanese Studies and
the Department of History of Art, this event is co-organized with
University of Michigan Museum of Art and Department of History of
Art, in association with PoNJA-GenKon, a listserv group dedicated
to contemporary Japanese art (www.ponja-genkon.net
(http://www.ponja-genkon.net/) ).

Keynote lecture with Reiko Tomii
Friday, April 2, 5 pm
Helmut Stern Auditorium

Performance by Ei Arakawa
Friday, April 2, 6:30 pm

Apse Papers
Saturday, April 3, 9:30 am-5 pm
Helmut Stern Auditorium

All events are free and open to the public.
University of Michigan Museum of Art
525 South State Street, Ann Arbor, 48109-1354
Information: 734.763.UMMA; www.umma.umich.edu
(http://www.umma.umich.edu/)