Countermeasures Against Awkward Discourses: From the Perspective of Third Wave Feminism

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

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Ai Iwane, Yuki Kimura, Kohei Kobayashi, Risa Sato, Miyo Stevens-Gandara, Yurie Nagashima, Ishu Han, Aya Fujioka, Futoshi Miyagi, Go Watanabe

In this exhibition guest curator Yurie Nagashima looks at works (including her own) produced by ten artists whose careers began in the 1990s, offering fresh interpretations of these works from a feminist viewpoint. Nagashima has been producing photographic work and writing since her own art-scene debut in 1993, all the while harboring doubts about the “onnanoko shashin” (girl photography) label sweepingly applied to her and other female photographers of the same generation. Uneasy with the joking images of feminists propagated by the media in the 1980s, the young Nagashima declined to identify as a feminist herself, yet became a consistent challenger of male-centered values. Nagashima sees this kind of attitude, which had the effect of rendering feminist practice among the younger generation virtually invisible, as one version of Japanese third wave feminism, and asserts that elements of it can also be found in the output of artists who declined to be part of any “movement” or pursuit of “solidarity.” This exhibition showcases works selected following dialogue between Nagashima and the nine other artists, based on this observation.

Schedule	Oct 16 (Sat) 2021-Mar 13 (Sun) 2022  Opening Hours Information Hours 10:00-18:00 Closes at 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays. Closed Monday Open on a public holiday Monday but closed on the following day. Closed during the New Year holidays. Notice Open on 11/1, 11/22, 1/3 and 1/10. Closed on 11/24, 12/29-1/1, 1/4, 1/11.
Fee	Adults ¥1200, Seniors 65 & Over ¥1000, University and High School Students ¥800, Junior High and Elementary School Students ¥400
Website	https://www.kanazawa21.jp/data_list.php?g=81&d=207
Venue	21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa https://www.kanazawa21.jp/en/
Location	1-2-1 Hirosaka, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa 920-8509 Open with a Map App
Access	From the East exit of JR Kanazawa Station, take the bus and get off at Hirosaka · 21st Century Museum. From the East exit of JR Kanazawa Station, take the bus and get off at Korinbo (ATRIO-mae). The venue is 5 minute walk from there.
Phone	076-220-2800
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