PARASOPHIA 京都国際現代芸術祭2015

Parasophia presents a series of talks organized by Professional Advisory Board member Noboru Tsubaki as part of Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015’s Access Program. On April 16, we invite Sayaka Ogawa, a cultural anthropologist best known for her research on the Machinga merchants in Tanzania, to take part in a “Radikal Dialogue” with Tsubaki at Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art.



Sayaka Ogawa (小川さやか)
Born 1978 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Cultural anthropologist; Associate Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University. Studied at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University. Formerly a postdoctoral fellow at Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and researcher/assistant teacher at the National Museum of Ethnology. Current position since March 2014. Ogawa has researched “how petty street traders called Machinga have created unique credit transactions in response to the political and socio-economical transformation after the economic liberalization of Tanzania” (asq.africa.ufl.edu/ogawa_fall06). Her book on the subject, Toshi o ikinuku tameno kouchi—Tanzania no reisaishounin Machinga no minzokushi (都市を生きぬくための狡知——タンザニアの零細商人マチンガの民族誌; Kyoto: Sekaishisosha, 2011) was awarded the 33rd Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities (Life and Society division). A dialogue between Furukawa and Noboru Tsubaki is included in Tsubaki’s book Sherutā kara kokkupitto e: Tobitatsu sukima no sekkeigaku (シェルターからコックピットへ 飛び立つスキマの設計学), scheduled to be published on April 30, 2015 by Sangakusha (Tokyo).

Noboru Tsubaki (椿昇)
Born 1953 in Kyoto. Professor and Director, Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Kyoto University of Art and Design. Parasophia Professional Advisory Board member. MFA, Kyoto City University of Arts. Group exhibitions include Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties (1989) and the 1993 Venice Biennale. Kokuren Shonen (UN BOY), Art Tower Mito, 2003. Solo exhibitions include Noboru Tsubaki GOLD/WHITE/BLACK (2009) at The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Noboru Tsubaki: PREHISTORIC_PH (2012) at the Kirishima Open-air Museum (Kagoshima Prefecture). Director, Hishio no Sato and Sakate Port Project, Setouchi Triennale 2013. Currently a trustee of the Mori Art Museum and the Director of ARTOTHÈQUE (artotheque.jp). Sherutā kara kokkupitto e: Tobitatsu sukima no sekkeigaku (シェルターからコックピットへ 飛び立つスキマの設計学) scheduled to be published on April 30, 2015 by Sangakusha (Tokyo).