Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: Japanese Art After Fukushima through the Prism of Festivals", a paper by Clélia Zernik, is the result of an original collaboration between the Institut français, the Institut national d'histoire de l'art and Critique d'art, who together decided to create a new grant for the writing and publication of a critical essay.There will be a call for applications every year for this grant, which was launched in 2016 and is part of a wider programme to support writing on contemporary art and its international visibility.It was initiated by the Institut français in the field of visual arts, in partnership with the French Ministry of Culture -Artistic Creation Department.A threeyear cycle was thus created which, through different measures, encourages the mobility of researchers and art critics, as well as the circulation of their ideas and translations of their work.The first recipient of this grant for critical writing, Julie Crenn, travelled to South Africa to examine the African art scene through the eyes of female artists 1 .Clélia Zernik, the present awardee, focuses on works and the frame within which they are shown, in this fascinating investigation of contemporary art festivals in Japan.Avoiding the easy option of a comparative approach, her careful descriptions offer the reader a close-up experience of these events, whose singularity is gradually revealed.One of the qualities of this paper is that it makes clear that far from being limited to the restricted field of contemporary art experts, these festivals give structure to geographical areas and social spaces, within a long-term, slow, shared temporality.We hope you enjoy this article!Elitza Dulguerova, Research adviser in the field of 18th to 21st-Century Art History, INHA and Vincent Gonzalvez, Head of the Visual Arts and Architecture Department, Institut français.Japanese Art after Fukushima through the Prism of Festivals Critique d'art, 49 | Automne/
Source: Critique d’art
Author: Clélia Zernik
Language: English
Topic: Art, Politics, and Modernism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2768708135