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Beuys On / Off: Felt, Fat, and Fictions
Goethe-Institut Tokyo
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Chingiz Aidarov, Ziliia Kanchurina, Altynai Osmoeva
beuys on/off is a cross-disciplinary art project organised by the Goethe Institut Tokyo to commemorate the centenary of German artist Joseph Beuys.
The Eurasia program of beuys on/off invites Tokyo audiences to observe and reflect on felt, fat, and fictions in Central Eurasian contemporary art curated by Dominique Chen, an information scientist from Japan, and Selbi Jumayeva, a researcher from Turkmenistan. The in-person exhibit runs from September 3 to September 5 at the Goethe Institut Tokyo. The Eurasia program welcomes a broader audience to meet the artists during an online public launch of the exhibition on September 2.
On the 100th birthday of Joseph Beuys, Dominique invited Selbi to join him in co-leading the EURASIA program of beuys on/off project by Goethe Institute Tokyo. Dominique initially planned to organize an offline postal relay across Eurasia, but instead Selbi curated an unique opportunity for him to learn from, connect with, and immerse into the complex and multifold arts, science and culture community of contemporary Central Eurasia.
Starting his program as a ‘search for Eurasia’, a mythical Beuysian concept evoking collision of the West and East as manifest in Joseph Beuys himself, under the guidance of Selbi, Dominique gradually arrived into a reality of many de/entangled Easts of his own linked, looped, and shared with and his Eurasian peers. This curated online journey became an exchange of artistic perspectives, conceptual insights, and personal experiences documented in more than 60 hours of meetings and 500 pages of notes for Dominique and Selbi. This exhibition beuys on/off: felt, fat, and fictions stitches a few of those notes together with reflections of artists from Central Eurasia who truly own the felt in contemporary art, indulge in the fat of everyday life, and embrace the fictions in Central Eurasia.
The Eurasia program of beuys on/off invites Tokyo audiences to observe and reflect on felt, fat, and fictions in Central Eurasian contemporary art curated by Dominique Chen, an information scientist from Japan, and Selbi Jumayeva, a researcher from Turkmenistan. The in-person exhibit runs from September 3 to September 5 at the Goethe Institut Tokyo. The Eurasia program welcomes a broader audience to meet the artists during an online public launch of the exhibition on September 2.
On the 100th birthday of Joseph Beuys, Dominique invited Selbi to join him in co-leading the EURASIA program of beuys on/off project by Goethe Institute Tokyo. Dominique initially planned to organize an offline postal relay across Eurasia, but instead Selbi curated an unique opportunity for him to learn from, connect with, and immerse into the complex and multifold arts, science and culture community of contemporary Central Eurasia.
Starting his program as a ‘search for Eurasia’, a mythical Beuysian concept evoking collision of the West and East as manifest in Joseph Beuys himself, under the guidance of Selbi, Dominique gradually arrived into a reality of many de/entangled Easts of his own linked, looped, and shared with and his Eurasian peers. This curated online journey became an exchange of artistic perspectives, conceptual insights, and personal experiences documented in more than 60 hours of meetings and 500 pages of notes for Dominique and Selbi. This exhibition beuys on/off: felt, fat, and fictions stitches a few of those notes together with reflections of artists from Central Eurasia who truly own the felt in contemporary art, indulge in the fat of everyday life, and embrace the fictions in Central Eurasia.
Schedule | Sep 3 (Fri) 2021-Sep 5 (Sun) 2021 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.goethe.de/ins/jp/en/sta/tok/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=22321537 | ||||
| Venue | Goethe-Institut Tokyo http://www.goethe.de/ins/jp/tok/jaindex.htm | ||||
| Location | 7-5-56 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052 | ||||
| Access | 5 minute walk from exit 4 at Aoyama-itchome Station on the Ginza and Hanzomon lines. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3584-3201 | ||||
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