Events before and during the exhibition
Feb. 25, 2015 (Wed.) 19:38
The following events will be held just before and during Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015. More information about events presented by Parasophia will be posted on this website.
* All event details are subject to change. Events may be cancelled without advance notice.
* Reservation not required unless otherwise specified; seats available on first-come, first-served basis on the day of each event. Admission is free unless otherwise noted. Parasophia ticket may be required for events held in the exhibition space.
* All events are held in Japanese unless indicated otherwise.
* All events are presented by the Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture Organizing Committee, Kyoto Association of Corporate Executives (Kyoto Keizai Doyukai), Kyoto Prefecture, and Kyoto City unless indicated otherwise.
* “PAB” refers to Parasophia’s Professional Advisory Board.
PARASOPHIA COUNTDOWN
1. [Talk Event] Parasophia Conversations 02:
Yasumasa Morimura & Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster “In a Hall of Mirrors”
February 28 (Sat.) 6:30–8:30 PM
Venue: Annex Hall, The Museum of Kyoto
Languages: Japaneseand French (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
100 seats available
* Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s participation has been cancelled.
2. [Screenings] Countdown to Parasophia at Kyoto Minami-Kaikan
February 28 (Sat.) – March 6 (Fri.) 6:10 PM– (around 60 min. per screening)
Venue: Kyoto Minami-Kaikan (79 Nishikujo Higashihieijocho, Minami-ku Kyoto)
Presented by Kyoto Minami-Kaikan kyoto-minamikaikan.jp (in Japanese only)
Co-presented by Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015
With the cooperation of Ufer! Art Documentary and The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Featuring William Kentridge (2009) I am not me, the horse is not mine, Yasushi Kishimoto (2002) Our Museum, etc.
More information: kyoto-minamikaikan.jp/archives/19620 (in Japanese only)
3. [Workshop] Jean-Luc Vilmouth “Café Little Boy”
March 3 (Tue.) and 4 (Wed.) 1:00–3:00 PM
Venue: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Up to 20 participants (reservation required)
Reservations: Reservations for events before and during the exhibition
4. [Workshop] Cai Guo-Qiang “Children Da Vincis”
March 6 (Fri.) 3:00–4:00 PM
Venue: Main gallery, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
5. [Performance] Miwa Yanagi’s Stage Trailer Project “Pole Dance Show on Stage Trailer”
March 6 (Fri.) 5:30–6:00 PM
Venue: Parking lot on the east side of Nijo Castle (541 Nijojo-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto)
Pole dancers: mecav KOTOBUKI, ERIKA RELAX
Events during the exhibition
6. [Lecture] Simon Fujiwara
March 7 (Sat.) 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speaker: Simon Fujiwara
Language: English (with simultaneous interpretation into Japanese)
80 seats available
7. [Workshop] Cai Guo-Qiang “Kites with Fireworks”
March 7 (Sat.) 1:00–2:30 PM (reception begins at 12:30 PM)
Place: On the grounds of the Kyoto Botanical Garden (Shimogamo Hangi-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto)
This event will be cancelled in case of rain (but will be held in case of light rain).
Age group: Ages 5 to 12 (up to 6th grade)
Up to 99 participants (reservations required)
Reservations: Send the participant’s name and age and his/her guardian’s name, phone number, and e-mail address to event@parasophia.jp.
8. [Lecture] Shinsuke Shimojo “Illusion: Psychological Reality of Cognition and Body”
March 7 (Sat.) 2:00–4:00 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speakers: Shinsuke Shimojo (Professor, California Institute of Technology), Satoru Takahashi
80 seats available
9. [Talk Event] Exhibition Draft 2015: Related Event
Masumi Kawamura in Conversation with Hong-Kai Wang
March 7 (Sat.) 4:00 PM−
Venue: Meeting Room 2, Kyoto Art Center
Languages: Japanese and English (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
40 seats available
Presented by Kyoto Art Center www.kac.or.jp/en
More information: www.kac.or.jp/eng/events/15360
10. [Tour] Guided Tour of the Suujin District by Hoefner/Sachs
March 7 (Sat.) 5:00–6:30 PM
Venue: Areas near the cross streets of Kawaramachi and Shiokoji Streets
Guides: Hoefner/Sachs (Franz Hoefner and Harry Sachs)
Language: English (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
Up to 20 participants (reservation required)
Co-presented by Kyoto City University of Arts
More information: gallery.kcua.ac.jp/events/20150308_id=4362#en
Reservations: Reservations for events before and during the exhibition
11. Curatorial Studies 07
Mavo and Florian Pumhösl
Part 1: Round-Table Discussion
March 8 (Sun.) 1:00–2:30 PM
Venue: Lecture Hall, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (Okazaki Enshoji-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto)
Speakers: Florian Pumhösl and Akihiko Morishita
Languages: Japanese and English (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
80 seats available
Presented by The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
With the cooperation of Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015
More information: www.momak.go.jp/Japanese/news/newsList2014.html#150302 (in Japanese only)
12. [Symposium] Parasophia Conversations 03: On the Possibility of Exhibitions Outside of the Institution
A collaborative project by Parasophia & Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa
March 8 (Sun.) 3:00–5:00 PM
Venue: Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa (19-3 Yoshida Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto)
Speakers: Andreas Beitin (Director, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art), Roger M. Buergel (Director, Johann Jacobs Museum; PAB member), Satoru Takahashi, Shinji Kohmoto
Language: Japanese and German (with simultaneous interpretation between both languages)
100 seats available
Co-presented by Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa
13. [Workshop] Parasophia Conversations 04: Hong-Kai Wang “Dancers of the Millions”
March 9 (Mon.) 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speakers: Hong-Kai Wang and others
Languages: Japanese and English (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
15 seats available (reservation required)
Reservations: Reservations for events before and during the exhibition
See information about the previous workshop
14. [Talk & Outdoor Screening] Miwa Yanagi’s Stage Trailer Project
March 9 (Mon.) Part 1: 3:00–4:30 PM,Part 2: 5:00–6:00 PM
Part 1: Talk
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speakers:Hong-Kai Wang, Shen Chao-Liang (photographer), and Miwa Yanagi
Languages: Japaneseand Mandarin (with interpretation into Japanese)
80 seats available
Part 2: Outdoor Screening
Venue: On Stage Trailer in area in front of Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
* Part 2 may be moved indoors in case of rain.
Documentary film screening on the stage trailer in Taiwan
Presented by Miwa Yanagi’s Stage Trailer Project
* Hong-Kai Wang’s participation in Part 1 and Part 2 cancelled
15. [Talk Event] Parasophia Conversations 05: Tatsuo Majima & Curators
A collaborative project by Parasophia & Japan Foundation
March 9 (Sat.) 6:00–7:30 PM
Venue: Meeting Room 2, Kyoto Art Center
Speakers: Tatsuo Majima and others
Moderator: Mizuki Endo (Independent curator)
Languages: Japanese and English (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
40 seats available
Co-presented by Japan Foundation
16. [Lecture] Artist Talk by Ahmed Mater
March 10 (Tue.) 11:00–12:30 PM
Venue: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
English (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
* Cancelled
17. [Lecture & Gallery Tour] Artist Talk by Brandt Junceau
March 13 (Fri.) 2:00–3:30 PM
Venue: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speaker: Brandt Junceau
Language: English (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
Up to 30 participants
18. [Talk Event] Exhibition Draft 2015: Related Event
Masumi Kawamura in Conversation with Miwa Yanagi
March 14 (Sat.) 4:00 PM–
Venue: Meeting Room 2, Kyoto Art Center
40 seats available
Presented by Kyoto Art Center www.kac.or.jp
More information: www.kac.or.jp/eng/events/15360
19. [Cinema Program] Talk by Emiko Kasahara
March 14 (Sat.) 7:40–8:40 PM
Venue: Film Theatre, The Museum of Kyoto
Speakers: Emiko Kasahara and others
174 seats available (Parasophia ticket required)
20. [Performance] Aki Sasamoto “The Last Call, Wrong Happy Hour”
March 19 (Thu.) – 22 (Sun.) 6:00–7:00 PM
Venue: Kamichojamachi Building, Horikawa Housing Complex
Performer: Aki Sasamoto
Up to 30 audience members per performance (reservation required)
21. [Lecture] Artist Talk by Aki Sasamoto
March 21 (Sat./holiday) 1:00–2:30 PM
Venue: Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA (238-1 Oshiaburakoji-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto)
Speaker: Aki Sasamoto 70 seats available
Co-presented by Kyoto City University of Arts
More information: gallery.kcua.ac.jp/events/20150321_id=4372#en
22. [Lecture] Tatsuo Majima “A Kind of Contemporaneity/A Kind of Complicity”
March 29 (Sun.), April 4 (Sat.), and April 5 (Sun.) 1:00–1:15 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
80 seats available
23. [Cinema Program] Talk by Han Yanli (Associate Professor, Kwansei Gakuin University) & Alexander Zahlten
April 5 (Sun.) 7:00–8:00 PM
Venue: Film Theatre, The Museum of Kyoto
Speakers: Han Yanli (Associate Professor, Kwansei Gakuin University) and Alexander Zahlten
174 seats (Parasophia ticket required)
24. [Gallery Talk] Access Program [Systematic Botany] Mikinori Ogisu
April 10 (Fri.) 5:00–6:30 PM
Venue: Exhibition space, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (in front of the installation Family Plot by Ana Torfs)
Lecturer: Minoru Ogisu (naturalist)
Facilitators: Noboru Tsubaki (artist; Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design; PAB member), Chinatsu Makiguchi (Associate Curator, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; PAB member)
Up to 50 participants (valid Parasophia ticket required)
25. [Lecture] Emiko Kasahara “Aesthetics within the System/The System within Aesthetics: A Consideration from Modern Kyoto”
April 11 (Sat.) 4:00–5:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
80 seats available
26. [Lecture] Chizuko Ueno “Taking Democracy into Our Own Hands”
April 12 (Sun.) Part 1: 1:00–2:30 PM, Part 2: 2:45–4:00 PM
Part 1: Lecture by Chizuko Ueno
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
80 seats available
Part 2: Open Discussion “Chizuko Ueno & Audience Members”
Facilitators: Keiko Kurachi & Satoru Takahashi
Venue: Exhibition space, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (inside of Ornament and Crime: Sense/Common)
Up to 100 participants (valid Parasophia ticket required; numbers distributed at the Information desk starting from 10:00 AM)
27. [Outdoor Screening] Miwa Yanagi’s Stage Trailer Project
100th Anniversary of Tadeusz Kantor’s Birth: Commemorative Lecture, Symposium, and Outdoor Screening
April 12 (Sun.) Part 1: 3:00–4:30 PM, Part 2: 5:00–7:30 PM
Part 1: Lecture by Małgorzata Dziewulska (theater writer)
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
80 seats available
Part 2: Symposium & Outdoor Screening
Venue: Area in front of Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art * Part 2 may be moved indoors in case of rain.
Speakers: Akiko Yamane (composer), Miwa Yanangi, Akira Tatehata (former President, Kyoto City University of Arts), Małgorzata Dziewulska and Tokimasa Sekiguchi (Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Moderator: Akiko Kasuya (Associate Professor, Kyoto City University of Arts)
Presented by Kyoto City University of Arts www.kcua.ac.jp/en
Co-presented by Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015 and Instytut Polski w Tokio
With the cooperation of Culture.pl (Part 2 only)
28. [Cinema Program] Talk by Tetsuaki Matsue & Alexander Zahlten
April 12 (Sun.) 7:40–8:40 PM
Venue: Film Theatre, The Museum of Kyoto
Speakers: Tetsuaki Matsue (film director) and Alexander Zahlten
174 seats available (Parasophia ticket required)
29. [Tour] Fieldwork on Modern Kyoto
April 14 (Tue.)
Meet at Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art at 1:00 PM; tour ends in the Gojo-zaka area around 5:00 PM
Instructor: Masaaki Kidachi (Professor, Ritsumeikan University)
Venue: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Fujihira Climbing Kiln (151-1 Takemura-cho, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto), and other locations
Up to 30 participants (reservation required)
Reservations: Reservations for events before and during the exhibition
30. [Talk Event] Access Program
Radikal Dialogue [Contemporary Art and Koan] Shuken Furukawa
April 15 (Wed.) 2:30–4:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Lecturer: Shuken Furukawa (zen master)
Facilitator: Noboru Tsubaki (artist; Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design; PAB member)
80 seats available
31. [Talk Event] Access Program
Radikal Dialogue [The 7th Malaria] Sayaka Ogawa
April 16 (Thu.) 2:00–4:00 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Lecturer: Sayaka Ogawa (cultural anthropologist; Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University)
Facilitator: Noboru Tsubaki (artist; Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design; PAB member)
80 seats available
32. Trans-it Program: Part 1 [Talk] Tsuyoshi Hisakado
April 17 (Fri.) 2:00–3:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speaker: Tsuyoshi Hisakado (participating artist, Still Moving)
80 seats available
Presented by Still Moving (exhibition held in connection with Parasophia; Special Plan Exhibition of the 6th Anniversary of the Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA)
Information about Still Moving: stillmoving.kcua.ac.jp
33. [Cinema Program] Talk by Yang Yong-hi & Alexander Zahlten
April 19 (Sun.) 7:00–8:00 PM
Venue: Film Theatre, The Museum of Kyoto
Speakers: Yang Yong-hi (film director) and Alexander Zahlten
174 seats (Parasophia ticket required)
34. [Talk Event] Roundtable Discussion
April 21 (Tue.) Time TBD
Venue: TBA (in Kyoto)
Speakers: Emma Lavigne (Director, Centre Pompidou-Metz) and others
Language: French (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
80 seats available
* Cancelled
35. Trans-it Program: Part 2 [Talk] Masayuki Sugiyama
April 22 (Fri.) 2:00–3:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speaker: Masayuki Sugiyama (participating artist, Still Moving)
80 seats available
Presented by Still Moving (exhibition held in connection with Parasophia; Special Plan Exhibition of the 6th Anniversary of the Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA)
Information about Still Moving: stillmoving.kcua.ac.jp
36. Heritage and Transmission: Towards for Generative Intelligence of the Future
April 22 (Wed.) 9:30 AM–12:30 PM at Villa Kujoyama (17-22 Hinooka Ebisudani-cho, Yamashina-ku, Kyoto) (reservation required)
April 22 (Wed.) 2:00–6:00 PM at Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA (238-1 Oshiaburakoji-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto)
April 23 (Thu.) 2:00–4:00 PM Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speakers: Georges Lavaudant (playwright and stage director), Mylinh Nguyen (artisan), Kosei Sakamoto & Yuko Mori (Monochrome Circus), François Azambourg (interior designer), Nelly Saunier (plumassière), Kiyokazu Washida (next president of Kyoto City University of Arts), Shuhō (flower arrangement), Kunihiko Moriguchi (yuzen kimono painting master; Preserver of Important Intangible Cultural Properties; PAB member), Noboru Tsubaki (artist; Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design; PAB member), Yusuke Hashimoto (Rohm Theatre Kyoto; Program Director, Kyoto Experiment), and others
Languages: Japanese and French (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
Presented by Villa Kujoyama www.villakujoyama.jp (in French and Japanese)
Co-presented by Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015 and Kyoto City University of Arts
Reservations & Questions for April 22 at Villa Kujoyama: E-mail: event@villakujoyama.jp
More information: www.villakujoyama.jp/seminaire (in French and Japanese)
37. Trans-it Program: Part 3 [Talk] Emiko Kasahara
April 24 (Fri.) 1:00–2:30 PM
Venue: Former Suujin Elementary School (9 Kawabata-cho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8202)
Speaker: Emiko Kasahara
80 seats available
Presented by Still Moving (exhibition held in connection with Parasophia; Special Plan Exhibition of the 6th Anniversary of the Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA)
Information about Still Moving: stillmoving.kcua.ac.jp
38. Kyoto OMORO Talk for the Arts at Kyoto University “Crossing Genres”
April 24 (Fri.) 6:00–8:00 PM
Venue: International Conference Hall I, Kyoto University
Speakers: Juichi Yamagiwa (President, Kyoto University), Senzaburo Shigeyama (kyogen performer, Okura-ryu), and others
Languages: Japanese and English (with interpretation into Japanese)
Presented by Kyoto University www.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Questions: Tosa Lab, Institute for Information Management and Communication, Kyoto University
E-mail: request-cc@media.kyoto-u.ac.jp / Phone: +81-(0)75-753-9081
39. [Roundtable Discussion] Four Months Later: Reflecting on Provisional Studies: Workshop #1
April 25 (Sat.) 2:00–3:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speakers: Kanji Azuma, Atsuki Hirai, Kaya Kawahara, Akane Okubo, Yusuke Takada, Momo Takeuchi, Shion Tanaka, Joh Yamasaki, Koki Tanaka
80 seats available
40. [Talk Event] Access Program
Radikal Dialogue [The Mystery of Human Evolution] Hideki Endo
April 28 (Tue.) 2:00–4:00 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Lecturer: Hideki Endo (Professor, Comparative Morphology and Dead Body Science, University Museum, University of Tokyo)
Facilitator: Noboru Tsubaki (artist; Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design; PAB member)
80 seats available
41. Trans-it Program: Part 4 [Talk] Kazuhito Tanaka & Yasuto Masumoto
April 29 (Wed./holiday) 2:00–3:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speakers: Kazuhito Tanaka & Yasuto Masumoto (participating artists, Still Moving)
80 seats available
Presented by Still Moving (exhibition held in connection with Parasophia; Special Plan Exhibition of the 6th Anniversary of the Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA)
Information about Still Moving: stillmoving.kcua.ac.jp
42. [Performance] Miwa Yanagi’s Stage Trailer Project “Cabaret Night 2015”
April 29 (Wed./holiday) 7:00–8:30 PM
* Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art closes at 7:00 PM (last admission at 6:30 PM).
Venue: Area in front of Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
* Performance may be moved indoors in case of rain.
Producer: Miwa Yanagi
Costume design: Shinya Kushino
Performers: mecav KOTOBUKI (pole dance), Kei Tsujimoto (pole dance), Conguero Tres Hoofers (tap dancing and musical performance), BAVAAAL (fire breathing), Mayuka Miki (piano), Yoko Kuroki (recital)
Presented by Miwa Yanagi’s Stage Trailer Project
43. Trans-it Program: Part 5 [Talk] Tatsuo Majima
April 30 (Thu.) 2:00–3:30 PM
Venue: Former Suujin Elementary School (9 Kawabata-cho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8202)
Speaker: Tatsuo Majima
80 seats available
Presented by Still Moving (exhibition held in connection with Parasophia; Special Plan Exhibition of the 6th Anniversary of the Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA)
Information about Still Moving: stillmoving.kcua.ac.jp
44. [Talk Event] The Digital Image Archives of Regional Communities, Niigata
May 1 (Fri.) 1:00–5:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speakers: Arata Hayashida (Archival Research Center, Kyoto City University of Arts), Chikako Enomoto (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Niigata University), Morihiro Satow (Dean of Faculty of Design, Kyoto Seika University; PAB member), Yorio Kitamura (Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Niigata University), Akira Kikuchi (Assistant Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University), Ken’ichi Harada (Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Niigata University), Keiji Aiuchi (Professor, Faculty of Art, Kyoto Seika University)
Facilitator: Morihiro Satow (Dean of Faculty of Design, Kyoto Seika University; PAB member)
80 seats available
Presented by The Digital Image Archives of Regional Communities, Niigata (Faculty of Humanities, Niigata University)
Co-presented by Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015
More information: www.human.niigata-u.ac.jp/ciap (in Japanese only)
45. [Tour] Okazaki Park and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
May 2 (Sat.) 2:00–3:30 PM
Venues: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Okazaki Park and surrounding areas
Guide: Yoshihiro Nakatani (Curator, Parasophia: International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015)
Up to 30 participants
46. [Lecture] Ryue Nishizawa “Recent Works”
May 2 (Sat.) 5:00–6:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speaker: Ryue Nishizawa (architect)
80 seats available
47. [Live Performance] Shing02 & Kuranaka “Holiday Constitution”
May 3 (Sun./holiday) Part 1: 3:00 PM–, Part 2: 4:00 PM–
Part 1: Live performance by Shing02 & Kuranaka
Venue: Area in front of Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Performers: Shing02 and Kuranaka a.k.a. 1945
* Rain or shine, standing room only
Part 2: Open Discussion “Shing02 & Audience Members”
Facilitators: Keiko Kurachi & Satoru Takahashi
Venue: Exhibition space, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (inside of Ornament and Crime: Sense/Common)
Up to 25 participants (valid Parasophia ticket required; numbers distributed at the Information desk starting from 10:00 AM)
48. [Performance] Miwa Yanagi’s Stage Trailer Project “Kenji Nakagami Night 2015”
May 3 (Sun./holiday) 6:00–9:00 PM
* Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art closes at 7:00 PM (last admission at 6:30 PM).
Venue: Area in front of Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
* Performance may be moved indoors in case of rain.
Performers: Akira Asada, Hiroshi Funato, Hiromichi Hosoma, Seiko Ito, Kenichi Hasegawa Band, mecav KOTOBUKI, Manabu Yamada, and Miwa Yanagi
49. [Lecture] Shu Muramatsu “Making Television Programs: From Suiensaa to Unprecedented Fabrication”
May 6 (Wed.) 2:00–3:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speaker: Shu Muramatsu (Chief Producer, NHK [Japan Broadcasting Corporation])
80 seats available
50. [Talk Event] Parasophia Conversations 06: The Sekula Reader in Japan III—On the Crude Materialism of Images
May 6 (Wed.) 4:30–6:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speakers: The Sekula Reader in Japan (Satoshi Bamba, Keisuke Kitano, Osamu Maekawa, and Morihiro Satow)
80 seats available
51. [Cinema Program] Participating Artists Showcase: Allan Sekula
The Forgotten Space (directed by Allan Sekula & Noël Burch, 2010, 112 min., digital screening)
May 7 (Thu.) 6:00 PM–
Venue: Film Theatre, The Museum of Kyoto
174 seats (Parasophia ticket stub required)
Languages: English, Dutch, Spanish, Korean, Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese (with English subtitles)
Presented with the cooperation of Doc.Eye Film
52. [Lecture] Artist talk by Lisa Anne Auerbach
May 8 (Fri.) 5:00–6:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Lecturer: Lisa Anne Auerbach
Language: English (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
80 seats available
53. [Curator’s Talk] On Para-s/cite
May 9 (Sat.) 2:00–3:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speaker: Yoshihiro Nakatani (Curator, Parasophia: International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015)
80 seats available
54. [Cinema Program] Participating Artists Showcase: Yoshimasa Ishibashi
The Fuccons: Special Edition (director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, film editor: Yoshimasa Ishibashi, 2002, 60 min., 35 mm [DVD screening])
May 9 (Sat.) 6:00 PM–
Venue: Film Theatre, The Museum of Kyoto
174 seats (Parasophia ticket stub required)
Presented with the cooperation of Yoshimoto Creative Agency
55. Trans-it Program: Part 6 [Talk] Yoshimasa Ishibashi
May 10 (Sun.) 1:00–2:15 PM
Venue: Suujin District area (Suujin Spring Festival: May 9 and 10)
Speaker: Tatsuo Majima
80 seats available
Presented by Still Moving (exhibition held in connection with Parasophia; Special Plan Exhibition of the 6th Anniversary of the Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA)
Information about Still Moving: stillmoving.kcua.ac.jp
Programs held throughout the exhibition period
56. [Workshops] Cai Guo-Qiang “Children Da Vincis” Project
“What’s important isn’t whether you can fly.” —Cai Guo-Qiang
Children will be invited to set their imaginations free and create objects using everyday materials that will be included in Cai Guo-Qiang’s installation at Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art.
Every Saturday, Sunday, and holiday between March 14 and April 26, 10:00 AM–4:00 PM
Additional dates: May 2 (Sat.), 3 (Sun.), 5 (Tue./holiday), 10:00 AM–4:00 PM
Venue: Main gallery, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
For ages 5 to 10; must be accompanied by guardian (adult participation is limited to observation only)
See all workshops held before the exhibition (scroll down to the bottom)
57. Lisa Anne Auerbach American Megazine: Mega-Girls
A pair of “mega-girls” wearing knitted sashes by Lisa Anne Auerbach will be turning the pages of American Megazine #1 and American Megazine #2 every weekend starting from March 22.
Dates: Every Saturday and Sunday from March 22 to May 10 at 1:30–2:00 PM and 3:30–4:00 PM
Venue: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
58. Hoefner/Sachs Suujin Park: Community Hall
Visitors will be able to directly enter the Community Hall (“Donated plants and re-used playground material from the former Suujin Elementary School are transformed into a multipurpose gardening architecture and community hall, open for everybody”) portion of Suujin Park by Hoefner/Sachs.
Dates: Every Saturday, Sunday, and holiday from April 25 to May 10 (April 25 and 26, May 2–5, 9 and 10) from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Venue: Areas near the cross streets of Kawaramachi and Shiokoji Streets
59. Sherpa Tours
These unique tours are planned by the Parasophia Volunteers to share different ways to enjoy the exhibition. Details will be announced at the Volunteers desk at Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art and on the Parasophia Volunteer Center’s website (paravol.jp/en).
Every Saturday, Sunday, and holiday between March 14 and May 10, 2:00 PM– (40–60 min.)
* Sign up to participate starting from 1:00 PM on the day of the tour.
Venue: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
● Sherpas (volunteer mediators) are always available throughout the exhibition space to answer questions or take part in discussions about any particular artwork.
● For group tours, please contact the Parasophia Volunteer Center.
Parasophia Volunteer Center (c/o Kyoto Art Center)
Phone: +81-(0)75-213-1000 / FAX: +81-(0)75-213-1004 / E-mail: info@paravol.jp
* All event details are subject to change. Events may be cancelled without advance notice.
* Reservation not required unless otherwise specified; seats available on first-come, first-served basis on the day of each event. Admission is free unless otherwise noted. Parasophia ticket may be required for events held in the exhibition space.
* All events are held in Japanese unless indicated otherwise.
* All events are presented by the Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture Organizing Committee, Kyoto Association of Corporate Executives (Kyoto Keizai Doyukai), Kyoto Prefecture, and Kyoto City unless indicated otherwise.
* “PAB” refers to Parasophia’s Professional Advisory Board.
PARASOPHIA COUNTDOWN
1. [Talk Event] Parasophia Conversations 02:
Yasumasa Morimura & Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster “In a Hall of Mirrors”
February 28 (Sat.) 6:30–8:30 PM
Venue: Annex Hall, The Museum of Kyoto
Languages: Japanese
100 seats available
* Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s participation has been cancelled.
2. [Screenings] Countdown to Parasophia at Kyoto Minami-Kaikan
February 28 (Sat.) – March 6 (Fri.) 6:10 PM– (around 60 min. per screening)
Venue: Kyoto Minami-Kaikan (79 Nishikujo Higashihieijocho, Minami-ku Kyoto)
Presented by Kyoto Minami-Kaikan kyoto-minamikaikan.jp (in Japanese only)
Co-presented by Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015
With the cooperation of Ufer! Art Documentary and The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Featuring William Kentridge (2009) I am not me, the horse is not mine, Yasushi Kishimoto (2002) Our Museum, etc.
More information: kyoto-minamikaikan.jp/archives/19620 (in Japanese only)
3. [Workshop] Jean-Luc Vilmouth “Café Little Boy”
March 3 (Tue.) and 4 (Wed.) 1:00–3:00 PM
Venue: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Up to 20 participants (reservation required)
Reservations: Reservations for events before and during the exhibition
4. [Workshop] Cai Guo-Qiang “Children Da Vincis”
March 6 (Fri.) 3:00–4:00 PM
Venue: Main gallery, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
5. [Performance] Miwa Yanagi’s Stage Trailer Project “Pole Dance Show on Stage Trailer”
March 6 (Fri.) 5:30–6:00 PM
Venue: Parking lot on the east side of Nijo Castle (541 Nijojo-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto)
Pole dancers: mecav KOTOBUKI, ERIKA RELAX
Events during the exhibition
6. [Lecture] Simon Fujiwara
March 7 (Sat.) 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speaker: Simon Fujiwara
Language: English (with simultaneous interpretation into Japanese)
80 seats available
7. [Workshop] Cai Guo-Qiang “Kites with Fireworks”
March 7 (Sat.) 1:00–2:30 PM (reception begins at 12:30 PM)
Place: On the grounds of the Kyoto Botanical Garden (Shimogamo Hangi-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto)
This event will be cancelled in case of rain (but will be held in case of light rain).
Age group: Ages 5 to 12 (up to 6th grade)
Up to 99 participants (reservations required)
Reservations: Send the participant’s name and age and his/her guardian’s name, phone number, and e-mail address to event@parasophia.jp.
8. [Lecture] Shinsuke Shimojo “Illusion: Psychological Reality of Cognition and Body”
March 7 (Sat.) 2:00–4:00 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speakers: Shinsuke Shimojo (Professor, California Institute of Technology), Satoru Takahashi
80 seats available
9. [Talk Event] Exhibition Draft 2015: Related Event
Masumi Kawamura in Conversation with Hong-Kai Wang
March 7 (Sat.) 4:00 PM−
Venue: Meeting Room 2, Kyoto Art Center
Languages: Japanese and English (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
40 seats available
Presented by Kyoto Art Center www.kac.or.jp/en
More information: www.kac.or.jp/eng/events/15360
10. [Tour] Guided Tour of the Suujin District by Hoefner/Sachs
March 7 (Sat.) 5:00–6:30 PM
Venue: Areas near the cross streets of Kawaramachi and Shiokoji Streets
Guides: Hoefner/Sachs (Franz Hoefner and Harry Sachs)
Language: English (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
Up to 20 participants (reservation required)
Co-presented by Kyoto City University of Arts
More information: gallery.kcua.ac.jp/events/20150308_id=4362#en
Reservations: Reservations for events before and during the exhibition
11. Curatorial Studies 07
Mavo and Florian Pumhösl
Part 1: Round-Table Discussion
March 8 (Sun.) 1:00–2:30 PM
Venue: Lecture Hall, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (Okazaki Enshoji-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto)
Speakers: Florian Pumhösl and Akihiko Morishita
Languages: Japanese and English (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
80 seats available
Presented by The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
With the cooperation of Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015
More information: www.momak.go.jp/Japanese/news/newsList2014.html#150302 (in Japanese only)
12. [Symposium] Parasophia Conversations 03: On the Possibility of Exhibitions Outside of the Institution
A collaborative project by Parasophia & Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa
March 8 (Sun.) 3:00–5:00 PM
Venue: Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa (19-3 Yoshida Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto)
Speakers: Andreas Beitin (Director, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art), Roger M. Buergel (Director, Johann Jacobs Museum; PAB member), Satoru Takahashi, Shinji Kohmoto
Language: Japanese and German (with simultaneous interpretation between both languages)
100 seats available
Co-presented by Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa
13. [Workshop] Parasophia Conversations 04: Hong-Kai Wang “Dancers of the Millions”
March 9 (Mon.) 10:00 AM–1:00 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speakers: Hong-Kai Wang and others
Languages: Japanese and English (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
15 seats available (reservation required)
Reservations: Reservations for events before and during the exhibition
See information about the previous workshop
14. [Talk & Outdoor Screening] Miwa Yanagi’s Stage Trailer Project
March 9 (Mon.) Part 1: 3:00–4:30 PM,
Part 1: Talk
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speakers:
Languages: Japanese
80 seats available
Venue: On Stage Trailer in area in front of Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
* Part 2 may be moved indoors in case of rain.
Documentary film screening on the stage trailer in Taiwan
Presented by Miwa Yanagi’s Stage Trailer Project
* Hong-Kai Wang’s participation in Part 1 and Part 2 cancelled
15. [Talk Event] Parasophia Conversations 05: Tatsuo Majima & Curators
A collaborative project by Parasophia & Japan Foundation
March 9 (Sat.) 6:00–7:30 PM
Venue: Meeting Room 2, Kyoto Art Center
Speakers: Tatsuo Majima and others
Moderator: Mizuki Endo (Independent curator)
Languages: Japanese and English (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
40 seats available
Co-presented by Japan Foundation
March 10 (Tue.) 11:00–12:30 PM
Venue: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
English (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
* Cancelled
17. [Lecture & Gallery Tour] Artist Talk by Brandt Junceau
March 13 (Fri.) 2:00–3:30 PM
Venue: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speaker: Brandt Junceau
Language: English (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
Up to 30 participants
18. [Talk Event] Exhibition Draft 2015: Related Event
Masumi Kawamura in Conversation with Miwa Yanagi
March 14 (Sat.) 4:00 PM–
Venue: Meeting Room 2, Kyoto Art Center
40 seats available
Presented by Kyoto Art Center www.kac.or.jp
More information: www.kac.or.jp/eng/events/15360
19. [Cinema Program] Talk by Emiko Kasahara
March 14 (Sat.) 7:40–8:40 PM
Venue: Film Theatre, The Museum of Kyoto
Speakers: Emiko Kasahara and others
174 seats available (Parasophia ticket required)
20. [Performance] Aki Sasamoto “The Last Call, Wrong Happy Hour”
March 19 (Thu.) – 22 (Sun.) 6:00–7:00 PM
Venue: Kamichojamachi Building, Horikawa Housing Complex
Performer: Aki Sasamoto
Up to 30 audience members per performance (reservation required)
21. [Lecture] Artist Talk by Aki Sasamoto
March 21 (Sat./holiday) 1:00–2:30 PM
Venue: Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA (238-1 Oshiaburakoji-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto)
Speaker: Aki Sasamoto 70 seats available
Co-presented by Kyoto City University of Arts
More information: gallery.kcua.ac.jp/events/20150321_id=4372#en
22. [Lecture] Tatsuo Majima “A Kind of Contemporaneity/A Kind of Complicity”
March 29 (Sun.), April 4 (Sat.), and April 5 (Sun.) 1:00–1:15 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
80 seats available
23. [Cinema Program] Talk by Han Yanli (Associate Professor, Kwansei Gakuin University) & Alexander Zahlten
April 5 (Sun.) 7:00–8:00 PM
Venue: Film Theatre, The Museum of Kyoto
Speakers: Han Yanli (Associate Professor, Kwansei Gakuin University) and Alexander Zahlten
174 seats (Parasophia ticket required)
24. [Gallery Talk] Access Program [Systematic Botany] Mikinori Ogisu
April 10 (Fri.) 5:00–6:30 PM
Venue: Exhibition space, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (in front of the installation Family Plot by Ana Torfs)
Lecturer: Minoru Ogisu (naturalist)
Facilitators: Noboru Tsubaki (artist; Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design; PAB member), Chinatsu Makiguchi (Associate Curator, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; PAB member)
Up to 50 participants (valid Parasophia ticket required)
25. [Lecture] Emiko Kasahara “Aesthetics within the System/The System within Aesthetics: A Consideration from Modern Kyoto”
April 11 (Sat.) 4:00–5:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
80 seats available
26. [Lecture] Chizuko Ueno “Taking Democracy into Our Own Hands”
April 12 (Sun.) Part 1: 1:00–2:30 PM, Part 2: 2:45–4:00 PM
Part 1: Lecture by Chizuko Ueno
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
80 seats available
Part 2: Open Discussion “Chizuko Ueno & Audience Members”
Facilitators: Keiko Kurachi & Satoru Takahashi
Venue: Exhibition space, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (inside of Ornament and Crime: Sense/Common)
Up to 100 participants (valid Parasophia ticket required; numbers distributed at the Information desk starting from 10:00 AM)
27. [Outdoor Screening] Miwa Yanagi’s Stage Trailer Project
100th Anniversary of Tadeusz Kantor’s Birth: Commemorative Lecture, Symposium, and Outdoor Screening
April 12 (Sun.) Part 1: 3:00–4:30 PM, Part 2: 5:00–7:30 PM
Part 1: Lecture by Małgorzata Dziewulska (theater writer)
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
80 seats available
Part 2: Symposium & Outdoor Screening
Venue: Area in front of Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art * Part 2 may be moved indoors in case of rain.
Speakers: Akiko Yamane (composer), Miwa Yanangi, Akira Tatehata (former President, Kyoto City University of Arts), Małgorzata Dziewulska and Tokimasa Sekiguchi (Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Moderator: Akiko Kasuya (Associate Professor, Kyoto City University of Arts)
Presented by Kyoto City University of Arts www.kcua.ac.jp/en
Co-presented by Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015 and Instytut Polski w Tokio
With the cooperation of Culture.pl (Part 2 only)
28. [Cinema Program] Talk by Tetsuaki Matsue & Alexander Zahlten
April 12 (Sun.) 7:40–8:40 PM
Venue: Film Theatre, The Museum of Kyoto
Speakers: Tetsuaki Matsue (film director) and Alexander Zahlten
174 seats available (Parasophia ticket required)
29. [Tour] Fieldwork on Modern Kyoto
April 14 (Tue.)
Meet at Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art at 1:00 PM; tour ends in the Gojo-zaka area around 5:00 PM
Instructor: Masaaki Kidachi (Professor, Ritsumeikan University)
Venue: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Fujihira Climbing Kiln (151-1 Takemura-cho, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto), and other locations
Up to 30 participants (reservation required)
Reservations: Reservations for events before and during the exhibition
30. [Talk Event] Access Program
Radikal Dialogue [Contemporary Art and Koan] Shuken Furukawa
April 15 (Wed.) 2:30–4:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Lecturer: Shuken Furukawa (zen master)
Facilitator: Noboru Tsubaki (artist; Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design; PAB member)
80 seats available
31. [Talk Event] Access Program
Radikal Dialogue [The 7th Malaria] Sayaka Ogawa
April 16 (Thu.) 2:00–4:00 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Lecturer: Sayaka Ogawa (cultural anthropologist; Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University)
Facilitator: Noboru Tsubaki (artist; Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design; PAB member)
80 seats available
32. Trans-it Program: Part 1 [Talk] Tsuyoshi Hisakado
April 17 (Fri.) 2:00–3:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speaker: Tsuyoshi Hisakado (participating artist, Still Moving)
80 seats available
Presented by Still Moving (exhibition held in connection with Parasophia; Special Plan Exhibition of the 6th Anniversary of the Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA)
Information about Still Moving: stillmoving.kcua.ac.jp
33. [Cinema Program] Talk by Yang Yong-hi & Alexander Zahlten
April 19 (Sun.) 7:00–8:00 PM
Venue: Film Theatre, The Museum of Kyoto
Speakers: Yang Yong-hi (film director) and Alexander Zahlten
174 seats (Parasophia ticket required)
April 21 (Tue.) Time TBD
Venue: TBA (in Kyoto)
Speakers: Emma Lavigne (Director, Centre Pompidou-Metz) and others
Language: French (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
80 seats available
* Cancelled
35. Trans-it Program: Part 2 [Talk] Masayuki Sugiyama
April 22 (Fri.) 2:00–3:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speaker: Masayuki Sugiyama (participating artist, Still Moving)
80 seats available
Presented by Still Moving (exhibition held in connection with Parasophia; Special Plan Exhibition of the 6th Anniversary of the Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA)
Information about Still Moving: stillmoving.kcua.ac.jp
36. Heritage and Transmission: Towards for Generative Intelligence of the Future
April 22 (Wed.) 9:30 AM–12:30 PM at Villa Kujoyama (17-22 Hinooka Ebisudani-cho, Yamashina-ku, Kyoto) (reservation required)
April 22 (Wed.) 2:00–6:00 PM at Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA (238-1 Oshiaburakoji-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto)
April 23 (Thu.) 2:00–4:00 PM Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speakers: Georges Lavaudant (playwright and stage director), Mylinh Nguyen (artisan), Kosei Sakamoto & Yuko Mori (Monochrome Circus), François Azambourg (interior designer), Nelly Saunier (plumassière), Kiyokazu Washida (next president of Kyoto City University of Arts), Shuhō (flower arrangement), Kunihiko Moriguchi (yuzen kimono painting master; Preserver of Important Intangible Cultural Properties; PAB member), Noboru Tsubaki (artist; Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design; PAB member), Yusuke Hashimoto (Rohm Theatre Kyoto; Program Director, Kyoto Experiment), and others
Languages: Japanese and French (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
Presented by Villa Kujoyama www.villakujoyama.jp (in French and Japanese)
Co-presented by Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015 and Kyoto City University of Arts
Reservations & Questions for April 22 at Villa Kujoyama: E-mail: event@villakujoyama.jp
More information: www.villakujoyama.jp/seminaire (in French and Japanese)
37. Trans-it Program: Part 3 [Talk] Emiko Kasahara
April 24 (Fri.) 1:00–2:30 PM
Venue: Former Suujin Elementary School (9 Kawabata-cho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8202)
Speaker: Emiko Kasahara
80 seats available
Presented by Still Moving (exhibition held in connection with Parasophia; Special Plan Exhibition of the 6th Anniversary of the Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA)
Information about Still Moving: stillmoving.kcua.ac.jp
38. Kyoto OMORO Talk for the Arts at Kyoto University “Crossing Genres”
April 24 (Fri.) 6:00–8:00 PM
Venue: International Conference Hall I, Kyoto University
Speakers: Juichi Yamagiwa (President, Kyoto University), Senzaburo Shigeyama (kyogen performer, Okura-ryu), and others
Languages: Japanese and English (with interpretation into Japanese)
Presented by Kyoto University www.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Questions: Tosa Lab, Institute for Information Management and Communication, Kyoto University
E-mail: request-cc@media.kyoto-u.ac.jp / Phone: +81-(0)75-753-9081
39. [Roundtable Discussion] Four Months Later: Reflecting on Provisional Studies: Workshop #1
April 25 (Sat.) 2:00–3:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speakers: Kanji Azuma, Atsuki Hirai, Kaya Kawahara, Akane Okubo, Yusuke Takada, Momo Takeuchi, Shion Tanaka, Joh Yamasaki, Koki Tanaka
80 seats available
40. [Talk Event] Access Program
Radikal Dialogue [The Mystery of Human Evolution] Hideki Endo
April 28 (Tue.) 2:00–4:00 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Lecturer: Hideki Endo (Professor, Comparative Morphology and Dead Body Science, University Museum, University of Tokyo)
Facilitator: Noboru Tsubaki (artist; Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design; PAB member)
80 seats available
41. Trans-it Program: Part 4 [Talk] Kazuhito Tanaka & Yasuto Masumoto
April 29 (Wed./holiday) 2:00–3:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speakers: Kazuhito Tanaka & Yasuto Masumoto (participating artists, Still Moving)
80 seats available
Presented by Still Moving (exhibition held in connection with Parasophia; Special Plan Exhibition of the 6th Anniversary of the Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA)
Information about Still Moving: stillmoving.kcua.ac.jp
42. [Performance] Miwa Yanagi’s Stage Trailer Project “Cabaret Night 2015”
April 29 (Wed./holiday) 7:00–8:30 PM
* Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art closes at 7:00 PM (last admission at 6:30 PM).
Venue: Area in front of Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
* Performance may be moved indoors in case of rain.
Producer: Miwa Yanagi
Costume design: Shinya Kushino
Performers: mecav KOTOBUKI (pole dance), Kei Tsujimoto (pole dance), Conguero Tres Hoofers (tap dancing and musical performance), BAVAAAL (fire breathing), Mayuka Miki (piano), Yoko Kuroki (recital)
Presented by Miwa Yanagi’s Stage Trailer Project
43. Trans-it Program: Part 5 [Talk] Tatsuo Majima
April 30 (Thu.) 2:00–3:30 PM
Venue: Former Suujin Elementary School (9 Kawabata-cho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8202)
Speaker: Tatsuo Majima
80 seats available
Presented by Still Moving (exhibition held in connection with Parasophia; Special Plan Exhibition of the 6th Anniversary of the Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA)
Information about Still Moving: stillmoving.kcua.ac.jp
44. [Talk Event] The Digital Image Archives of Regional Communities, Niigata
May 1 (Fri.) 1:00–5:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speakers: Arata Hayashida (Archival Research Center, Kyoto City University of Arts), Chikako Enomoto (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Niigata University), Morihiro Satow (Dean of Faculty of Design, Kyoto Seika University; PAB member), Yorio Kitamura (Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Niigata University), Akira Kikuchi (Assistant Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University), Ken’ichi Harada (Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Niigata University), Keiji Aiuchi (Professor, Faculty of Art, Kyoto Seika University)
Facilitator: Morihiro Satow (Dean of Faculty of Design, Kyoto Seika University; PAB member)
80 seats available
Presented by The Digital Image Archives of Regional Communities, Niigata (Faculty of Humanities, Niigata University)
Co-presented by Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015
More information: www.human.niigata-u.ac.jp/ciap (in Japanese only)
45. [Tour] Okazaki Park and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
May 2 (Sat.) 2:00–3:30 PM
Venues: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Okazaki Park and surrounding areas
Guide: Yoshihiro Nakatani (Curator, Parasophia: International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015)
Up to 30 participants
46. [Lecture] Ryue Nishizawa “Recent Works”
May 2 (Sat.) 5:00–6:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speaker: Ryue Nishizawa (architect)
80 seats available
47. [Live Performance] Shing02 & Kuranaka “Holiday Constitution”
May 3 (Sun./holiday) Part 1: 3:00 PM–, Part 2: 4:00 PM–
Part 1: Live performance by Shing02 & Kuranaka
Venue: Area in front of Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Performers: Shing02 and Kuranaka a.k.a. 1945
* Rain or shine, standing room only
Part 2: Open Discussion “Shing02 & Audience Members”
Facilitators: Keiko Kurachi & Satoru Takahashi
Venue: Exhibition space, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (inside of Ornament and Crime: Sense/Common)
Up to 25 participants (valid Parasophia ticket required; numbers distributed at the Information desk starting from 10:00 AM)
48. [Performance] Miwa Yanagi’s Stage Trailer Project “Kenji Nakagami Night 2015”
May 3 (Sun./holiday) 6:00–9:00 PM
* Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art closes at 7:00 PM (last admission at 6:30 PM).
Venue: Area in front of Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
* Performance may be moved indoors in case of rain.
Performers: Akira Asada, Hiroshi Funato, Hiromichi Hosoma, Seiko Ito, Kenichi Hasegawa Band, mecav KOTOBUKI, Manabu Yamada, and Miwa Yanagi
49. [Lecture] Shu Muramatsu “Making Television Programs: From Suiensaa to Unprecedented Fabrication”
May 6 (Wed.) 2:00–3:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speaker: Shu Muramatsu (Chief Producer, NHK [Japan Broadcasting Corporation])
80 seats available
50. [Talk Event] Parasophia Conversations 06: The Sekula Reader in Japan III—On the Crude Materialism of Images
May 6 (Wed.) 4:30–6:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speakers: The Sekula Reader in Japan (Satoshi Bamba, Keisuke Kitano, Osamu Maekawa, and Morihiro Satow)
80 seats available
51. [Cinema Program] Participating Artists Showcase: Allan Sekula
The Forgotten Space (directed by Allan Sekula & Noël Burch, 2010, 112 min., digital screening)
May 7 (Thu.) 6:00 PM–
Venue: Film Theatre, The Museum of Kyoto
174 seats (Parasophia ticket stub required)
Languages: English, Dutch, Spanish, Korean, Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese (with English subtitles)
Presented with the cooperation of Doc.Eye Film
52. [Lecture] Artist talk by Lisa Anne Auerbach
May 8 (Fri.) 5:00–6:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Lecturer: Lisa Anne Auerbach
Language: English (with consecutive interpretation into Japanese)
80 seats available
53. [Curator’s Talk] On Para-s/cite
May 9 (Sat.) 2:00–3:30 PM
Venue: Parasophia Room, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Speaker: Yoshihiro Nakatani (Curator, Parasophia: International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015)
80 seats available
54. [Cinema Program] Participating Artists Showcase: Yoshimasa Ishibashi
The Fuccons: Special Edition (director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, film editor: Yoshimasa Ishibashi, 2002, 60 min., 35 mm [DVD screening])
May 9 (Sat.) 6:00 PM–
Venue: Film Theatre, The Museum of Kyoto
174 seats (Parasophia ticket stub required)
Presented with the cooperation of Yoshimoto Creative Agency
55. Trans-it Program: Part 6 [Talk] Yoshimasa Ishibashi
May 10 (Sun.) 1:00–2:15 PM
Venue: Suujin District area (Suujin Spring Festival: May 9 and 10)
Speaker: Tatsuo Majima
80 seats available
Presented by Still Moving (exhibition held in connection with Parasophia; Special Plan Exhibition of the 6th Anniversary of the Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA)
Information about Still Moving: stillmoving.kcua.ac.jp
Programs held throughout the exhibition period
56. [Workshops] Cai Guo-Qiang “Children Da Vincis” Project
“What’s important isn’t whether you can fly.” —Cai Guo-Qiang
Children will be invited to set their imaginations free and create objects using everyday materials that will be included in Cai Guo-Qiang’s installation at Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art.
Every Saturday, Sunday, and holiday between March 14 and April 26, 10:00 AM–4:00 PM
Additional dates: May 2 (Sat.), 3 (Sun.), 5 (Tue./holiday), 10:00 AM–4:00 PM
Venue: Main gallery, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
For ages 5 to 10; must be accompanied by guardian (adult participation is limited to observation only)
See all workshops held before the exhibition (scroll down to the bottom)
57. Lisa Anne Auerbach American Megazine: Mega-Girls
A pair of “mega-girls” wearing knitted sashes by Lisa Anne Auerbach will be turning the pages of American Megazine #1 and American Megazine #2 every weekend starting from March 22.
Dates: Every Saturday and Sunday from March 22 to May 10 at 1:30–2:00 PM and 3:30–4:00 PM
Venue: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
58. Hoefner/Sachs Suujin Park: Community Hall
Visitors will be able to directly enter the Community Hall (“Donated plants and re-used playground material from the former Suujin Elementary School are transformed into a multipurpose gardening architecture and community hall, open for everybody”) portion of Suujin Park by Hoefner/Sachs.
Dates: Every Saturday, Sunday, and holiday from April 25 to May 10 (April 25 and 26, May 2–5, 9 and 10) from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Venue: Areas near the cross streets of Kawaramachi and Shiokoji Streets
59. Sherpa Tours
These unique tours are planned by the Parasophia Volunteers to share different ways to enjoy the exhibition. Details will be announced at the Volunteers desk at Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art and on the Parasophia Volunteer Center’s website (paravol.jp/en).
Every Saturday, Sunday, and holiday between March 14 and May 10, 2:00 PM– (40–60 min.)
* Sign up to participate starting from 1:00 PM on the day of the tour.
Venue: Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
● Sherpas (volunteer mediators) are always available throughout the exhibition space to answer questions or take part in discussions about any particular artwork.
● For group tours, please contact the Parasophia Volunteer Center.
Parasophia Volunteer Center (c/o Kyoto Art Center)
Phone: +81-(0)75-213-1000 / FAX: +81-(0)75-213-1004 / E-mail: info@paravol.jp