Access Program [Gallery Talk] Personal Antidisaster Plan

Event

Access Program [Gallery Talk] Personal Antidisaster Plan
April 29, 2014 (sun) 14：00-15：00/16：00-17：00

Admission: Admission to the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto’s Collection Gallery: www.momak.go.jp/English/hoursAdmission.html

http://www.parasophia.jp/events/en/a/pipilotti-rist-ap/

Venue

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
http://www.momak.go.jp/English/
Access: Okazaki Enshoji-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8344,
Japan
Tel: 075-761-4111
Hours: 9:30 ~ 17:00/Tuesday ~ Thursday・
Weekend, national holiday（entry up to 30 minutes before closing.）
9:30 ~ 20:00/Friday
（entry up to 30 minutes before closing.）
Closed: Monday

Description

The Access Program focuses on the artists participating in Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015 and invites participants to take various approaches in getting to know the artists and their works, so that they will be prepared to enjoy the exhibition in 2015 on a deeper level. For this Access Program, the curator of contemporary art and film at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto will give a talk on the works by Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015 participating artist that are currently being shown in the museum’s Collection Gallery. Participants in this program are also encouraged to attend the artist’s lecture, which will be held in the museum lobby at 7:00PM.

Date:Tuesday (holiday), April 29, 2014 2:00–3:00PM & 4:00–5:00PM
Admission:Admission to the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto’s Collection Gallery: www.momak.go.jp/English/hoursAdmission.html
Language:Japanese
Venue:1F Lobby, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Okazaki Enshoji-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8344
Kyoto City Bus and other buses: Kyoto Kaikan Bijutsukan-mae
10 min. walk from Higashiyama Station, Kyoto Municipal Subway Tozai Line (Station T10)
www.momak.go.jp/English
Gallery talk by:Chinatsu Makiguchi (Assistant Curator, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto)
Number of participants:Limited to 20 participants
How to apply:To apply for participation, please send your name, contact information (e-mail address or FAX number), the requested time slot (2:00PM or 4:00PM) and number of participants via e-mail or FAX. Participants will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis.
Where to apply:E-mail: event@parasophia.jp FAX: +81-75-257-1454

Presented by:Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture Organizing Committee, Kyoto Association of Corporate Executives (Kyoto Keizai Doyukai), Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto City
With the cooperation of:The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

Related event:Open Research Program [Lecture] Pipilotti Rist
Tuesday (holiday), April 29, 2014 7:00–8:30PM
1F Lobby, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Free admission, no application for participation required

Personal Antidisaster Plan // “Contemporary Art: Personal Antidisaster Plan,” from the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto’s 1st Collection Gallery Exhibition 2014–2015, from March 21 to May 11, 2014. Excerpt: “The biggest difference between men and animals is said to be the use of ‘clothing.’ “Wearing clothes’ or ‘being clad in fashionable attire’ is an essential theme for human existence, which constantly reminds us of our own bodies as well. From this important point of view, we organized the special exhibition entitled ‘Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset’ in 1999, which was also co-organiszed with the Kyoto Costume Institute like as the exhibition ‘Future Beauty.’ Some of the works from this former exhibition are being displayed in this current collection gallery exhibition, such as works by Antonella Piemontese in the Craft section, and works by Pipilotti Rist and Lucy Orta in the Contemporary Art section. Piemontese’s works and Orta’s works critically question the direct relationship between clothes and the body. Rist’s works poetically question the relationship of one’s own body and life with medical settings such as childbirth and endoscopic examinations. It would be greatly appreciated if these works could set the stage for our audiences to reconsider both the significance and the questions which lie at the foundations of the concept known as ‘fashion’” (The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto). Full text and list of works: www.momak.go.jp/English/collectionGalleryArchive/2014/collectionGallery2014No01.html