<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">We encourage you to attend this DISCO-supported event featuring Dr. Namiko Kunimoto, Program Director of the Asian American Studies Program. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Please share widely! </div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">________________________________________________<br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Institute for Japan Studies Lecture: Namiko Kunimoto, "Katsura Yuki<div style="display:inline"> </div>and the Stakes of Exposure"<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">
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Monday, October 30, 2017 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm<br>
Ramseyer Hall 100 (29 W Woodruff Ave)<br>
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Abstract: This presentation examines the work of Katsura Yuki<br>
(1913-1991), a Tokyo-based painter and assemblage artist. Katsura<br>
enacted political resistance by representing contentious issues such<br>
as self-sacrifice in times of war, the United States Castle Bravo<br>
nuclear test, the representation of gay lovers, and the status of<br>
women in Japan. This presentation will focus specifically on her<br>
paintings from the 1930s-1960s, as well as her illustrations of the<br>
James Baldwin novel, Another Country, that were featured in the Asahi<br>
Journal in the 1960s. Katsura’s body of work evaded the overdetermined<br>
masculine heroics of abstract expressionism and action art that had<br>
taken Japan by storm in the postwar period, forging an innovative mode<br>
of expression that was whimsical and strange in its tone, but<br>
nonetheless bore a potent political thrust.<br>
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By experimenting with the visibility and invisibility of the body, I<br>
argue Katsura enacted what Jacques Rancière terms political<br>
“dissensus.” Rancière sees genuine art and politics as those that<br>
create new relations between the visible and the invisible, liberating<br>
bodies from their assigned places and breaking with the ‘natural’<br>
order of the sensible. Similarly, by experimenting with the visibility<br>
of the Othered body Katsura reoriented aesthetic-political sensibility<br>
and opened up a space for a wider discourse on gender and race in<br>
Japan.<br>
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Bio: Namiko Kunimoto is an assistant professor in History of Art. Her<br>
recent essays include “Tanaka Atsuko’s Electric Dress and the Circuits<br>
of Subjectivity” published September 2013 in The Art Bulletinand<br>
“Shiraga Kazuo: The Buddhist Hero” published in Shiraga/Motonaga:<br>
Between Action and the Unknown in 2015. Dr. Kunimoto’s awards include<br>
a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada<br>
Fellowship, Japan Foundation Fellowships (2007 and 2016), and a<br>
College Art Association Millard/Meiss Author Award. She has been a<br>
panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and is an executive<br>
member of Japan Arts and Globalization and Vice-President of the<br>
Japanese Art History Forum. Her book, The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious<br>
Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art, was published in February 2017 by the<br>
University of Minnesota Press.<br>
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Recently published from the University of Minnesota Press<br>
The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art<br>
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<a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-stakes-of-exposure" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.upress.umn.edu/boo<wbr>k-division/books/the-stakes-of<wbr>-exposure</a><br>
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Namiko Kunimoto, Assistant Professor<br>
History of Art Department<br>
Program Director, Asian American Studies Program<br>
The Ohio State University<br>
5036 Smith Lab<br>
174 W 18th<br>
Columbus, OH 43210<br>
phone: <a href="tel:614-688-8193" value="+16146888193" target="_blank">614-688-8193</a><br>
Fax: <a href="tel:614-292-4401" value="+16142924401" target="_blank">614-292-4401</a><br>
email: <a href="mailto:kunimoto.3@osu.edu" target="_blank">kunimoto.3@osu.edu</a><br>
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