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"Small East Asia Co-Prosperity Restaurant 08" Performance Event
Gallery Mestalla
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Vasan Sitthiket, Chen Jin, Chaw Ei Thein, Yingmei Duan, Shu Yang, Kum Soni, Ryu Lushan, Lee Wen, Machiko Tagami, Mamiko Kawabata, Shinichi Arai
Excerpt from Shinichi Arai's comment on this exhibition:
"The eight East Asian artists featured in this event have been working with social, economic, political and gender issues through performance art. For the average person in Japan, the idea of politics makes some people feel uncomfortable when the discussion takes the form of art. They don't mind hearing politicians or journalists commenting on these issues on TV or in a newspaper article, but when these issues are broached in the context of art, something prevents them from being engaged. Keeping in mind this sort of response, I'm put in mind of the time when the poet Takuboku Ishikawa wrote 'The Stagnation of the Times' while other writers remained 'speechless' at the time of the Great Treason Affair (government suppression of socialists) during the Meiji period. I'd like to remind you that contained within 'performance art' is also the notion of 'survival art.'"
[Image: (c) Chaw Ei Thein. Photograph taken with a friend, Htein Lin, exiled in London, from the New York Times, August 13th, 2007]
"The eight East Asian artists featured in this event have been working with social, economic, political and gender issues through performance art. For the average person in Japan, the idea of politics makes some people feel uncomfortable when the discussion takes the form of art. They don't mind hearing politicians or journalists commenting on these issues on TV or in a newspaper article, but when these issues are broached in the context of art, something prevents them from being engaged. Keeping in mind this sort of response, I'm put in mind of the time when the poet Takuboku Ishikawa wrote 'The Stagnation of the Times' while other writers remained 'speechless' at the time of the Great Treason Affair (government suppression of socialists) during the Meiji period. I'd like to remind you that contained within 'performance art' is also the notion of 'survival art.'"
[Image: (c) Chaw Ei Thein. Photograph taken with a friend, Htein Lin, exiled in London, from the New York Times, August 13th, 2007]
Schedule | Apr 26 (Sat) 2008-Apr 29 (Tue) 2008 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | 1 Day ¥1500 | ||||
| Venue | Gallery Mestalla http://www.gallerymestalla.co.jp/  | ||||
| Location | 1F Sen-ei Bldg, 2-3-5 Nishi-kanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0065 | ||||
| Access | 5 minute walk from the West exit of Suidobashi Station on the JR Sobu line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6666-5500 | ||||
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