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February 28, 2020
In the prevention of the infection and spread of the new coronavirus (COVID-19), like many other museums, Artizon Museum closes temporarily from March 3 to 15.
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February 24, 2020
At an event in conjunction with the IAMAS graduate show, Hattori, Shitamichi, and Yasuno each give a presentation themed “After Venice Biennale: On collaborative projects” and have a roundtable discussion with Masahiro Miwa.
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February 4, 2020
Akishobo issues magazine Tagui vol.2 published by Multispecies Anthropology in Japan. There is a special feature on “At the Horizon of Hybrid Gathering.” Ishikura contributes his essay “‘Cosmo-Eggs’ and the Generation of Hybrid Gathering: From the 58th Venice Biennale Japan Pavilion.”
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January 12, 2020
An open symposium to mark the renewal of Society for the Ethno-Arts arts/ magazine titled “‘Cosmo-Eggs’ (Venice Biennale 2019 Japan Pavilion): Thinking at the Intersection of Art and Anthropology” takes place at the National Museum of Art, Osaka. Shitamichi and Ishikura take the stage.
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January 10, 2020
Taro Yasuno’s exhibition “Unrealized Composition: Icon 2020-2025” begins at Art Front Gallery. The 12 recorders that were used at Japan Pavilion, which arrived from Venice four days prior (on January 6), take form as a new installation.
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December 7, 2019
At Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM), a Venice Biennale debriefing session co-hosted by Yamaguchi Institute of Contemporary Arts (YICA) and Life&eat Club. Shitamichi and Hattori take the stage.
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September 23 – 27, 2019
As part of Akita University of Art’s research project “Concept-Building for Transdisciplinary Arts and Hybrid Gathering,” Ishikura, Hattori and Taisuke Karasawa (Associate Professor at Akita University of Art) visit Venice Biennale. With the students of the university, a “Venice Biennale Study Tour” is conducted over two days from September 24 to 25. Views are exchanged with the docents and others at the Japan Pavilion. After pavilion hours, for the homecoming exhibition, Ishikura and Hattori test out the frottage technique on the story carved on the wall.
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August 23, 2019
In Nagoya, Shitamichi and Hattori are interviewed by the Chunichi Newspaper about the Venice Biennale.
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July 31, 2019
At the request of the Window Research Institute, Shitamichi and Nousaku interview each other at Nousaku’s office.
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July 30, 2019
Invited to an event “Discover Kamenocho vol. 27” at Yamakiu Minami Soko in Akita, Ishikura and Hattori give a talk titled “Ecology of Co-existence: Venice Biennale Report.”
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July 29, 2019
At the “TAC Talk” hosted by Natsunosuke Mise at Tohoku University of Art and Design, Hattori speaks about “Cosmo-Eggs.” Also on this day, Shitamichi gives a talk at Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts. He touches upon “Cosmo-Eggs.”
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July 16, 2019
Shitamichi gives a talk at Tokyo University of the Arts. He touches upon “Cosmo-Eggs.”
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July 14, 2019
At the Tokyo Art Book Fair 2019 held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tanaka, Ishikura, Nousaku, Yasuno, and Hattori give a talk titled “We Will Talk About the Exhibition at Venice Biennale Japan Pavilion and the Catalogue,” which focuses on the catalogue.
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July 13, 2019
Ishikura gives a lecture and workshop session at Tohoku University of Art and Design. A “myth creation workshop” based on the methodology realized at “Cosmo-Eggs” is conducted with the participating students.
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July 1, 2019
Ishikura and Hattori have a Venice Biennale debriefing session at Akita University of Art.
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June 21, 2019
Nousaku holds a Venice Biennale debriefing session for Architectural Institute Japan’s Voice of Earth Design Subcommittee.
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June 16, 2019
NHK Educational TV programming “Nichiyo Bijyutsukan” reports on the Venice Biennale and Japan Pavilion in the “Art Scene” segment.
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June 12, 2019
Ishikura gives a lecture on the “Cosmo-Eggs” project at Meiji University.
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June 2, 2019
Hattori gives a lecture on “Cosmo-Eggs” at Tama Art University Museum.
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February 1, 2019
The Japan Foundation, LIXIL, Case, the designer Tanaka, Hattori, and Ishikura gather in the afternoon and have a meeting on publication. In the end, the catalogue will be jointly published by LIXIL and Case, with LIXIL Publishing the Japanese version, and Case Publishing the English version. Hattori speaks at the Japan Foundation Asia Center’s symposium, “Representation and Participation: The Venice Biennale and the Southeast Asian Pavilions,” along with curators from Singapore, the Philippines, and Indonesia. He gives a presentation entitled “A Methodology of Co-Diveristy.”
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January 21, 2019
Another visit is made to LIXIL Publishing. In the evening, a discussion on the returning exhibition is held at the office of the Ishibashi Foundation. In the night, Tanaka, Nousaku, and Hattori talk with Daijiro Ohara at an event related to the Daijiro Ohara & Yoshihisa Tanaka Joint Exhibition “Ohara’s Physicality, Tanaka’s Bionomics.” They discuss a lot of things about “Cosmo-Eggs.”
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December 15, 2018
Shitamichi, Ishikura, and Hattori move from Kanazawa to Kyoto and take part in a symposium hosted by Kyoto Anthropological Society at the Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA. As it relates to the symposium’s theme of “Collaboration between Anthropology and Art,” they present a “Composition of Co-Diversity.”
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December 14, 2018
Shitamichi, Ishikura, and Hattori give a special lecture entitled “The Cosmology of Co-Diversity” at Kanazawa College of Art.
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November 12, 2018
All the artists gather in Akita to participate in the symposium “Perspectives on Co-Diversity” hosted by the Akita University of Art. This is a valuable opportunity, as it is the second time for all the artist to gather. A meeting is held on new candidates for the screen material and a test of video projection.
