Symposium
Communities of Images: Japanese Motion Image Artists in the 1960s-1970s and the Asian American Independent Film Movement
As part of the opening events for the Community of Images exhibition, JASGP and CCJ are hosting a one-day symposium at University of Pennsylvania that is being co-presented by the Center for East Asian Studies and the Asian American Studies Program. In addition to presenting original research from the curatorial team that shaped the exhibition, this symposium will feature a roundtable panel related to Asian American independent film and media arts movements that developed during the same time period among Asian diasporic communities in the US. Exploring these contemporaneous Asian American filmmakers and video artists, the objective is not to link them or their works directly to the Japanese artists, but rather discuss in parallel as contemporaries who emerged from the same generation and were simultaneously navigating questions of race and self-identity through the context of media.
The symposium will be held at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania.
Confirmed presenters include:
Ann Adachi-Tasch (Collaborative Cataloguing Japan)
Rob Buscher (University of Pennsylvania)
Peter X. Feng (University of Delaware)
Go Hirasawa (Meiji-Gakuin University)
Nina Horisaki-Christens (Columbia University)
Julian Ross (Leiden University)
SCHEDULE
9:30-10am - Registration & Breakfast
10:00-12pm - Panel 1, Community of Images: Research process towards the exhibition
12:00-1:00pm - Lunch
1:00-3pm - Panel 2, Asian American Independent Film Movement
This program is co-organized by Collaborative Cataloging Japan and the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia in partnership with the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Major support for the Community of Images exhibition has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Toshiba International Foundation, Pola Art Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
Community of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the US, 1960s - 1970s
Community of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the US, 1960s-1970s will be an exhibition of experimental moving images created by Japanese artists in the U.S. during the 1960s and 70s, an area that has fallen in the fissure between American and Japanese archival priorities.
This project is co-presented by Collaborative Cataloging Japan and the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia in partnership with Philadelphia Art Alliance at University of the Arts. Major support has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Toshiba International Foundation, Pola Art Foundation, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.