BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.2// METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.1702.events_uoft_date.0@www.eas.utoronto.ca CREATED:20240314T202742Z DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nThursday, March 28, 2024 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm \n EAS Lounge, 14th Floor \n Robarts Library \n 130 St. George St. Tor onto, Ontario M5S 1A5 \n\nDescription: \n\nWhen and Where:Monday, March 25, 2024 | Photobook workshop (2:00-3:30 PM) & Opening Reception of Art E xhibition (3:30-4:30 PM)In-person | Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, 8th floor, Robarts Library, 130 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 1A5 Thursda y, March 28 | Artist talk (3:00-5:00 PM)In-person | EAS Lounge, 14th flo or, Robarts Library, 130 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 1A5 \nSpeakersK aori Nakasone (photographer) Satoko Nema (artist) Mayumo Inoue (Associate professor of comparative literature, Hitotsubashi University)\nDescriptio n:Art and Scholarly Dialogue Series: Living Otherwise: Perspectives on Tim e, Space, and Sense-Making from OkinawaThis event series is being held i n-person at multiple dates and locations in the John P. Robarts Research L ibrary. Faculty, students, staff, and the public are cordially invited to this event series. Registration is required: https://forms.gle/ZZ9F6p2K 61yDtFqB7This event series encompasses an art exhibition and book display\ , a photobook workshop, along with an artist talk. It highlights the phot ographic works of Kaori Nakasone and Satoko Nema, two artists from Okinaw a, and the scholarship of Mayumo Inoue, a scholar specializing in compar ative literature from Tokyo, Japan. Through photographic art and artist a nd scholarly exchange, this event series seeks to engage the University o f Toronto community with the question of “living otherwise”: What does it mean to live in our times marked by senses of precarity, grief, and viol ent losses? What conditions could enable the possibilities for “living oth erwise”—that is, to live in just and relational terms in the face of diff erence and absence?In the workshop, the artists will discuss with the par ticipants how their experiences of producing, publishing, and distributi ng photobooks and independent magazines in Okinawa constitute an alternati ve image politics that refuses prevalent imaginings of Okinawa as either a tourist paradise or a militarized site. The artist talk with Kaori Nakaso ne and Satoko Nema, featuring Professor Mayumo Inoue from Hitotsubashi Un iversity, Professor Wendy Matsumura from the University of California, S an Diego, and Professor Elizabeth Wijaya from the University of Toronto a s discussants, will investigate how artistic practices, both from and be yond Okinawa, can contribute to critical insights on broader issues such as transnational capitalism, logistical technologies, and geopolitics of mobility and immobility across the Pacific.ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:Artists:Kao ri Nakasone is a photographer based in Tokyo and Okinawa, Japan. She held solo exhibitions 'Temporality' (Kobunesha Studio, Naha, 2023) and “Unfr amed” (Kiyoko Sakata Gallery, Naha, 2016) and participated in group show s including “Transit Republic: The Pan-Pacific Collective Edition'' (arena 1 gallery, Los Angeles, 2017) and “the 27th Hitotsubo Photography Exhib ition” (Guardian Garden, Tokyo, 2006). Having served as an editor of pho tography magazine LP from 2008 to 2010, Nakasone began publishing las bar cas in 2011 as its chief editor. She co-wrote the essay 'BetweenStudium an d Punctum: Tomatsu Shomei and Nakahira Takuma between ‘Japan’ and ‘Okinawa '' with Mayumo Inoue. It appeared in Voice of Photography (issue 28) in Ta iwan and in the edited volume Epistemic Decolonization and the End of Pax Americana (Routledge, 2023). She published a photobook Temporality in 202 3.Satoko Nema is an artist born and based in Okinawa, Japan. She teaches as an adjunct instructor at the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts. Sh e held solo exhibitions “Marginalia” (Naha Cultural Arts Theater NAHArt, Naha, 2023), “Simulacre” (Renemia, Naha, 2019), and “Paradigm” (Omote santo Gallery, Tokyo; space aotsubame, Kobenesha, gallery atos, Okina wa, 2016). She also participated in group shows including “LAS ISLAS SOLI TARIAS” (Sugarcane Room gallery, Miyagi Island, 2023; sponsored by the Okinawa Arts Council), “Artist Today” (Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, Naha, 2019-2020), “Sharing as Caring #6 Trans-Affekte: Geschic hten, Leben und Landschaften (Heidelberger Kunstverin, Germany, 2018-10 19), “Transit Republic: The Pan-Pacific Collective Edition” (arena 1 gall ery, Los Angeles,2017), “Untimely Encounter 2016: Moment” (Alternative Space LOOP, Korea, 2016-2017), among others. She published two photoboo ks, Paradigm in 2015 and Simulacre in 2019. In 2023, she co-founded the artist group Aotsubame, whose members established the art gallery Sugarca ne Room in Miyagi Island, Okinawa.Discussants:Mayumo Inoue is an associat e professor of comparative literature at Hitotsubashi University. His publ ications include the co-edited collection Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theo ries of Art and Politics in East Asia (with Steve Choe, Hong Kong Univers ity Press, 2019) as well as the articles on aesthetics and poetics in the works by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Charles Olson, and Kiyota Masanobu in t he imperial context of the U.S. and East Asia including Okinawa in A Black well Companion to American Poetry, Discourse, and American Quarterly. Hi s essays in Japanese have appeared in journals such as Gendai Shiso, Ecce , and las barcas. He is also a founding member of an Okinawa-based art jo urnal las barcas.Elizabeth Wijaya is an Assistant Professor in the Departm ent of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto (Mississauga) and Gradu ate Faculty in the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto ( St. George). She is the Director of the Southeast Asian Seminar Series at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Her work has been published in Verge, Cultural Critique, Discourse, Parall ax, Derrida Today, Pacific Affairs, and the edited volume, Ecology and Chinese-Language Cinema. She is the Associate Producer for Taste (dir. Lê Bảo, 2021), Co-Producer for Mongrel (dir. Chiang Wei Liang, in post-pr oduction), and Assistant Producer for Viet and Nam (dir. Truong Minh Quý\ , in post-production). She is a co-founder of E&W Films and co-editor of W orld Picture Journal.Wendy Matsumura is Associate Professor of modern Japa nese history and Okinawa studies at UC San Diego. She received her Ph.D. i n History from New York University in 2007. She is the author of two monog raphs, both from Duke University Press. The first, published in 2015, T he Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizatio ns of Community, traced the way that Okinawa, an entity that only came i nto existence as a territorial and political category in the late 1870s tr ansformed into a diasporic, cultural community included in, but distinct from the Japanese nation-state by the early 1930s. It argued that the pro duction of a belief in Okinawa as an organic, trans-historical community was inextricably linked to capitalist crises that found their temporary re solution in appeals to the Okinawan community. Matsumura’s second monograp h, published in 2024, Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Strugg les in the Heart of Japan’s Empire, traced the transformation of the Japa nese small farm household (shono noka) into the material and discursive fo undation of the national community and its members into conquistador human ists following the post-World War One agrarian crisis. In addition to conv entional academic venues, her work has been published in Viewpoint magazi ne, The Funambulist, Society & Space, and other more public-facing outl ets.Moderators:Sabrina Teng-io Chung is a Ph.D. candidate in East Asian St udies at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation examines the U.S. and Japanese colonial governance of Okinawa’s urban built environment through the lens of transpacific studies, inter-Asia cultural studies, and crit ical infrastructure studies. Her publication has appeared in Society and S pace (online edition). She translated investigative reporting articles fro m independent Chinese-language news outlets including The Reporter and Ini tium Media. She also co-founded the 'Thinking Infrastructures in Global As ia: New Perspectives and Approaches' Working Group, which is sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Institute. Her research has been supported by the School of Cities Graduate Fellows Program and the MOFA Taiwan Fellowship.J i Eun (Camille) Sung is an Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow in the Depar tment of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. Her primary rese arch interest lies in artistic practices that actively employed non-conven tional media, with a focus on their conversation with and operation withi n the socio-political conditions in Korea, and more broadly, in East Asi a. Her research interests also include queer and feminist art practice, a ctivism, and theory and the relationship between critical theory and prax is. She has worked as a curator and art critic, producing exhibitions, i nstallations, and independent publications, particularly as a member of the Korean feminist visual art collective No New Work. Her work has been p ublished in the Journal of History of Contemporary Art and will be include d in the Routledge Companion to Art History and Feminisms. \n\nContact Inf ormation: \n Sabrina Chung Sabrina.chung@mail.utoronto.ca \n130 St. George St. Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5 \n\nCategories \n Speaker Series \n\nAudien ces \n FacultyGraduate StudentsUndergraduate Students DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240328T170000 LAST-MODIFIED:20240314T202742Z LOCATION:130 St. George St. Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A5 SUMMARY:Art and Scholarly Dialogue Series: Living Otherwise: Perspectives o n Time, Space, and Sense-Making from Okinawa URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.eas.utoronto.ca/events/art-and-scholarly-dialogue- series-living-otherwise-perspectives-time-space-and-sense-making END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR