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Fiona Amundsen “Arsenal of Democracy”
Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo
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Fiona Amundsen
This video and photographic artworks presented here position the story of Ben Kuroki’s ancestry-based plight for recognition that resulted in him being the only American of Japanese decent permitted to fight in the Asia-Pacific Theater of World War Two. The artwork features Carrie Furnace, a former steel mill in Pittsburgh, and an anonymous voice recording that describes the effects of the 1945 steel-clad incendiary-bombing of Tokyo. These artworks consider the complexity of such experiences as they’re translated across historical time, culture and language into images. Rather than attempting to retrieve or revise these histories, this exhibition questions how photographic and video images can enable a connected, active relationship with how the ramifications of this past inform the present.
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Talk Event: “Memory, Narrative and Cultural Memorialising: Fiona Amundsen and Koizumi Meiro Discuss Artistic Strategies”
This event brings together two artists whose work explores relationships between traumatic World War Two war histories, memory, narrative and cultural memorialising. These artists, one from New Zealand - Fiona Amundsen - and the other from Japan - Meiro Koizumi - will discuss the strategies each employs in order to address the complexities of this material, particularly across their different experiences of cultural time and space.
Event Dates: January 28 (Sat) 12:00-15:30
Venue: Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo Space C/D
Admission: Free (no booking required)
*Japanese-English interpretation available
*See the official website for details and booking information.
[Related Events]
Talk Event: “Memory, Narrative and Cultural Memorialising: Fiona Amundsen and Koizumi Meiro Discuss Artistic Strategies”
This event brings together two artists whose work explores relationships between traumatic World War Two war histories, memory, narrative and cultural memorialising. These artists, one from New Zealand - Fiona Amundsen - and the other from Japan - Meiro Koizumi - will discuss the strategies each employs in order to address the complexities of this material, particularly across their different experiences of cultural time and space.
Event Dates: January 28 (Sat) 12:00-15:30
Venue: Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo Space C/D
Admission: Free (no booking required)
*Japanese-English interpretation available
*See the official website for details and booking information.
Schedule | Jan 14 (Sat) 2017-Feb 12 (Sun) 2017 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||||
| Website | http://www.tokyo-ws.org/english/archive/2016/09/os-b06-eng.shtml | ||||||
| Venue | Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo https://www.tokyoartsandspace.jp/en/ | ||||||
| Location | 2-4-16 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033 | ||||||
| Access | 5 minute walk from the East exit of Suidobashi Station on the JR Sobu or Toei Mita line. 6 minute walk from exit 1 at Hongo-sanchome Station on the Marunouchi or Toei Oedo line. 7 minute walk from Ochanomizu Station on the JR Chuo, Sobu or Marunouchi line | ||||||
| Phone | 03-5689-5331 |
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