『記憶のための未来』展: 岡部昌生・港千尋対談
5月18日（火）午後7時（カナダ太平洋時間・サマータイム）
5月19日（水）午前11時（日本時間）

The artists will discuss their artistic practices and involvement in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, and provide background for their works on view in A Future for Memory. Both artists have collaborated on many projects including, Is There a Future for Our Past?: The Dark Face of the Light, which represented Japan at the 52th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition in 2007.

The conversation (pre-recorded in Japanese, with English subtitles) will be followed by a live Q+A session with Chihiro Minato (in English).

Masao Okabe is an artist based in Hokkaidō, and has continued to create works that evoke memories inherent in objects through traces left by places and time, using various techniques including frottage. He has participated in major international exhibits, including the Venice Biennale, and collaborated in many projects.

Chihiro Minato is a photographer and explores themes of image development and memory, and engages in a diverse range of activities that include art making, writing and curation. Minato is Professor in the Department of Information Design and a member of the Institute for Art Anthropology, Tama Art University, Tokyo.

Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura is a sociocultural anthropologist and Curator, Asia at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. She is the curator for A Future for Memory, which derives from the past ten years of her engagement with the disaster region.

Co-sponsored with the Centre for Japanese Research at UBC.

『記憶のための未来』の出展作家、岡部昌生氏と港千尋氏による対談です。展覧会担当キュレーターの中村冬日が進行役をつとめます。

今回の対談では、東日本大震災後の作家としての取り組みや被災地との関わりについてお話しされます。また、『記憶のための未来』展での作品の制作背景にも言及されます。岡部氏と港氏は2007年開催の第52回ヴェネチア・ビエンナーレ国際美術展での『私たちの過去に、未来はあるのか The Dark Face of the Light』展をはじめ、様々なプロジェクトを共同で行ってきました。

対談は事前に録画されたもので、日本語で行います（英語字幕付き）。対談後には、港千尋氏がライブで英語による質疑応答を行います。

岡部昌生（おかべ　まさお）北海道在住のアーティスト。フロッタージュをはじめ、さまざまな手法で場所や時が記す痕跡からモノに内在する記憶を想起させる表現をつづけてきた。ヴェネチアビエンナーレなどの国際展、市民とのコラボレーションも多数実施。

港千尋（みなと　ちひろ）写真家。イメージの発生と記憶などをテーマに制作、著述、キュレーションなど広範な活動をつづけている。多摩美術大学美術学部情報デザイン学科教授および芸術人類学研究所所員。

中村冬日（なかむら　ふゆび）博士　社会文化人類学者、ブリティッシュ・コロンビア大学人類学博物館(MOA)アジア担当キュレーター。『記憶のための未来』展担当キュレーター。当展は中村の震災後の被災地での活動がきっかけとなっている。

共催：UBC日本研究センター

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Opened in 2017 to inaugurate MOA’s new Elspeth McConnell Gallery of Northwest Coast Masterworks, the exhibition invites visitors to see Northwest Coast art “in a different light,” placing extraordinary historical objects and belongings in relation to the voices of contemporary Indigenous artists, activists and other thinkers. Watch a short documentary that gives a behind-the-scenes look at recent changes made to the gallery highlighting the care and attention given to mounting and displaying the new works. The screening will be followed by a Q + A.

The Work We Do is an online event series focused on the work we do at the Museum of Anthropology, the community members we work with, and the shared interests that bring us together. Join us as we engage with a range of voices from diverse communities guiding us towards meaningful collaborations, and ways of understanding. Each event includes a discussion and Q+A.

Karen Duffek is the Curator of Contemporary Visual Arts and Pacific Northwest at MOA. Committed to supporting the activation of Northwest Coast Indigenous collections inside and outside the museum, her research, exhibitions, and publications focus on the relationships between historical and contemporary art practices, museum collections, communities, and art markets.

Jordan Wilson is a Musqueam curator, writer, and PhD student in Anthropology at New York University. He has published on Musqueam and contemporary Indigenous art, and has co-curated two exhibitions at MOA: c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city (2015) and In a Different Light: Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art (2017).