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Exhibition curated by Mark Teh + YCAM

The Breathing of Maps

Guest Curator Mark Teh Artist / Researcher Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina,Carlos Celdran,chi too,Farish A. Noor,Janet Pillai,Vandy Rattana,Okui Lala,Ho Rui An,Masashi Kohara,Shiga Lieko + Shimizu Chinatsu + Nagasaki Yoshitomo,Akira TAKAYAMA,Kaori Nishio,Yasuko Furuichi,yang02,center for remembering 3.11 (sendai mediatheque)

Photo: Yasuhiro Tani
Design: Shunsuke Onaka (Calamari Inc.)
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Due to an event, exhibits in the foyer cannot be viewed at the following times. Thank you for your understanding.

  • December 15, 13:00 – 17:30
  • December 16, 10:00 – 13:30
  • December 21, 19:00 – 20:00
  • December 22, 12:30 – 20:00

Joining artists from Asia to unravel Japan afresh!

Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] and The Japan Foundation Asia Center will present “The Breathing of Maps,” an exhibition and series of events developed in collaboration with Malaysia-based director and researcher Mark Teh as a co-curator.

As a symbolic product of the modernization process, maps reveal the dramatic changes in national sovereignty, culture, economics, and ways of living. Tracing the complex processes by which a bordered ‘Siam’ came into being between 1850 and 1910 - a period overlapping with Japan’s Meiji Restoration - Thai historian Thongchai Winichakul has shown how encounters with Western map-making were instrumental in the formation of modern nation- states in Southeast Asia. However, premodern or earlier maps in the region were identified by their centres and lack of borders. "A map created a nation... its geo-body is born in a map, and nowhere else". Thongchai Winichakul, Siam Mapped (1994).

Treating the geo-bodies of nation-states as dynamic and unstable entities, "The Breathing of Maps" examines social transformations that lie between maps - between different areas, eras and errors. Unfolding over 12 weeks, the exhibition brings together a network of artistic and research practices that chart the shifting intersections of capital, crisis, citizenry and the colonial in their respective locations. The exhibition includes artworks, performances, lectures and workshops which complicate conventional ideas of cartography, propose counter- mapping potentialities, and foreground imaginative mappings and continuities between people, place, and practices.

*This exhibition will be hosted in co-organization with The Japan Foundation Asia Center, and it will be staged as one outcome of the "Condition Report," a co-curatorial project involving curators from Japan and Southeast Asia embarked upon by the Asia Center in 2015.

Events and Exhibition

Accompanying the exhibition will be related lecture performances, video installations and documentary films by artists and scholars from Southeast Asia and Japan based on their own unique research into the history, culture, politics, economics, actual dayto-day lifestyles, and other social phenomena of their respective countries.

Events

Please check the "Events" item at the bottom of this web page.

Screening

  • Carlos Celdran "Intramuros Performance Tour 'Walk This Way'" (English)

December 17 (Mon), 2018- March 3 (Sun), 2019 *Except Saturdays, Feb10
17:30-18:30(TBA)

Exhitbition

  • chi too (Artist) "pika-boo"
  • Vandy Rattana (Artist) "MONOLOGUE"
  • Ho Rui An (Artist) "Asia the Unmiraculous"
  • yang02 "Urbanized Typeface"

from the exhibiton "Record and Recalling - Walking on the house of image" by the center for remembering 3.11 (sendai mediatheque)

  • Works by Komori Haruka + Seo Natsumi / Suzuo Keita / Fujii Hikaru

Works

  • Under construction

pika-boo

  • chi too

  • Under construction

MONOLOGUE

  • Vandy Rattana

  • Under construction

Asia the Unmiraculous

  • Ho Rui An

  • Under construction

Urbanized Typeface

  • yang02

  • Under construction

under the wave, on the ground

  • Haruka KOMORI+Natsumi SEO

  • Under construction

A View of the Coast

  • Keita SUZUO

  • Under construction

Record of Coastal Landscape

  • Hikaru FUJII

Screening

  • Under construction

Intramuros Performance Tour: Walk This Way

  • Carlos Celdran

Profiles

Guest Curator

Mark Teh

Theatre director / Researcher

Artist / Researcher

Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina

Carlos Celdran

Performance artist

chi too

Artist / Art worker

Farish A. Noor

Historian

Janet Pillai

Sociologist

Vandy Rattana

Artist

Okui Lala

Artist

Ho Rui An

Artist

Masashi Kohara

Curator

Shiga Lieko + Shimizu Chinatsu + Nagasaki Yoshitomo

Akira TAKAYAMA

Theatre director

Kaori Nishio

Playwright

Yasuko Furuichi

Exhibition Coordinator

yang02

Artist

center for remembering 3.11 (sendai mediatheque)

Related Events

Saturday, December 15 — Sunday, 16, 2018

  • Finished

Performance by chi too

Cut Grass Piece

Saturday, December 15, 2018

  • Finished

Curator's lecture

Mark Teh,Kumiko IDAKA

Saturday, December 15 — Sunday, 16, 2018

  • Finished

Lecture performance by Ho Rui An

Asia the Unmiraculous

Sunday, December 16, 2018

  • Finished

Lecture by Farish A. Noor

Nothing left to know: Stamford Raffles’ Map of Java and the Epistemology of Empire

Saturday, December 22, 2018

  • Finished

Lecture by Masashi Kohara

The 1903 Human Pavilion and Expositions

Saturday, December 22, 2018

  • Finished

Lecture performance by Kaori Nishio

Why I am here, why she is there — Journeys around Karayuki-san

Saturday, January 12, 2019

  • Finished

Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina Lecture performance

Name Laundering

Saturday, January 19, 2019

  • Finished

Performance by Okui Lala

Can you help me translate?

Saturday, January 26, 2019

  • Finished

Lecture by Janet Pillai

Mapping Culture: Understanding & Managing Change

Saturday, February 9 — Monday, 11, 2019

  • Finished

Research workshop by Akira Takayama

Pirates' Study

Saturday, February 23, 2019

  • Finished

Lecture by Shiga Lieko + Shimizu Chinatsu + Nagasaki Yoshitomo

Human Spring

Sunday, February 24, 2019

  • Finished

Lecture performance by Yasuko Furuichi

Jalan-jalan di Asia (Wandering in Asia)

Admission

Free

Info

Times and Dates (JST)

Saturday, December 15, 2018 — Sunday, March 3, 2019

10:00 — 20:00

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  • October 12, 2018 release The Breathing of Maps
Credit

Organized by Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi City Foundation for Cultural Promotion, The Japan Foundation Asia Center
In association with Yamaguchi City Board of Education
In cooperation with the center for remembering 3.11 (sendai mediatheque)
Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2018 Co-developed with YCAM InterLab
Produced by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM]

Exhibition curated by Mark Teh + YCAM

The Breathing of Maps

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