FluxFest Lisbon
Conversations on Japan
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Room 2Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Sem categoriaThe event will be livestreamed on this page, in english, with simultaneous interpreting into Portuguese and Portuguese Sign Language.
The FluxFest Lisbon programme begins with a conversation and debate with the artists involved in this moment of the Japanese contemporary art season – Ami Yamasaki, Ko Ishikawa, Christian Marclay and Jaime Reis – introducing the Fluxus movement not as a historical avant-garde, but as a phenomenon of art and life. This conversation will be followed by a solo performance by Ami Yamasaki.
Moderated by Emmanuelle de Montgazon.
Engawa – A season of contemporary art from Japan
‘Engawa’ is a programming that brings to Lisbon a set of creators from Japan and the Japanese diaspora, many of them for the first time in Portugal. More info
Speakers
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Ami Yamasaki
Ami Yamasaki uses her ears, vocal cords and skin to capture her voice and its echoes. Through her performances and installations, Ami Yamasaki questions the world and the human body and how it can expand through hearing. She was a member of the Asian Cultural Council and the Japan Foundation Asia Centre. She has exhibited and performed in various galleries, museums and festivals internationally and has received several awards for her work.
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Christian Marclay
With a career spanning over 30 years, Christian Marclay explores the relationship between video and sound, creating works for various media such as sculpture, video, photography, collage, music and performance. His work has been exhibited in several museums and galleries around the world, such as the Pompidou (Paris), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo), the Museu d’Art Contemporani (Barcelona), the Whitney Museum (New York), the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), among others.
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Emmanuelle de Montgazon
MA in Contemporary Art History, Emmanuelle de Montgazon works on open and transversal artistic approaches that unite different art forms, maintaining privileged links with Japan. Between 1997 and 2006 she was appointed cultural attaché at the French Embassy in Tokyo and New York. Since 2012 she has been Director of Ryoji Ikeda’s Studio in Paris and Kyoto and Advisor to the Odawara Art Foundation, founded by artist Hiroshi Sugimoto.
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Jaime Reis
Jaime Reis studied Composition and Electroacoustic Music and continued his doctoral studies at the New University of Lisbon in Ethnomusicology. He teaches Composition and Electroacoustic Music at ESML and is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology at UNL. He is artistic director of the DME Festival and Lisboa Incomum, which develop an intense activity of research and creation of contemporary classical music. His music has been performed all over the world by renowned ensembles and musicians.
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Ko Ishikawa
Ko Ishikawa studied Japanese traditional Gagaku music under his masters Mayumi Miyata, Hideaki Bunno and Sukeyasu Shiba. He is a member of Reigakusha Gagaku Ensembl. He also plays contemporary and experimental music, having been a part of the project of the artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yoshihide Otomo, Toshiyuki Omori, Mamoru Fujieda, Julio Estrada, Antoine Beuger, Magnus Grandberg, Paul Schütze, Yuji Takahashi and Toshi Ichiyanagi. He has participated in several renowned international festivals, including Jazz in August at the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Programme
18:00 / Welcome
Benjamin Weil – Director at CAM
18:05 / Introducing the Fluxus movement
Emmanuelle de Montgazon – Curador of the Japanese season
18:25 / Talk
With Ami Yamasaki, Christian Marclay, Jaime Reis, Ko Ishikawa – Artists
19:15 / Q&A
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