[DSOSU] [DISCO] TODAY 4:30pm - Institute for Japan Studies Lecture: Namiko Kunimoto, "Katsura Yuki and the Stakes of Exposure"

[Toni Calbert]

We encourage you to attend this DISCO-supported event featuring Dr. Namiko
Kunimoto, Program Director of the Asian American Studies Program.

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Institute for Japan Studies Lecture: Namiko Kunimoto, "Katsura Yuki
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and the Stakes of Exposure"

Monday, October 30, 2017 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Ramseyer Hall 100 (29 W Woodruff Ave)


Abstract: This presentation examines the work of Katsura Yuki
(1913-1991), a Tokyo-based painter and assemblage artist. Katsura
enacted political resistance by representing contentious issues such
as self-sacrifice in times of war, the United States Castle Bravo
nuclear test, the representation of gay lovers, and the status of
women in Japan. This presentation will focus specifically on her
paintings from the 1930s-1960s, as well as her illustrations of the
James Baldwin novel, Another Country, that were featured in the Asahi
Journal in the 1960s. Katsura’s body of work evaded the overdetermined
masculine heroics of abstract expressionism and action art that had
taken Japan by storm in the postwar period, forging an innovative mode
of expression that was whimsical and strange in its tone, but
nonetheless bore a potent political thrust.

By experimenting with the visibility and invisibility of the body, I
argue Katsura enacted what Jacques Rancière terms political
“dissensus.” Rancière sees genuine art and politics as those that
create new relations between the visible and the invisible, liberating
bodies from their assigned places and breaking with the ‘natural’
order of the sensible. Similarly, by experimenting with the visibility
of the Othered body Katsura reoriented aesthetic-political sensibility
and opened up a space for a wider discourse on gender and race in
Japan.

Bio: Namiko Kunimoto is an assistant professor in History of Art. Her
recent essays include “Tanaka Atsuko’s Electric Dress and the Circuits
of Subjectivity” published September 2013 in The Art Bulletinand
“Shiraga Kazuo: The Buddhist Hero” published in Shiraga/Motonaga:
Between Action and the Unknown in 2015. Dr. Kunimoto’s awards include
a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Fellowship, Japan Foundation Fellowships (2007 and 2016), and a
College Art Association Millard/Meiss Author Award. She has been a
panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and is an executive
member of Japan Arts and Globalization and Vice-President of the
Japanese Art History Forum. Her book, The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious
Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art, was published in February 2017 by the
University of Minnesota Press.


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Recently published from the University of Minnesota Press
The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-stakes-of-exposure


Namiko Kunimoto, Assistant Professor
History of Art Department
Program Director, Asian American Studies Program
The Ohio State University
5036 Smith Lab
174 W 18th
Columbus, OH 43210
phone: 614-688-8193
Fax: 614-292-4401
email: kunimoto.3 at osu.edu
http://history-of-art.osu.edu/people/kunimoto.3





-- 
Toni Calbert
Ph.D Candidate
English Department
The Ohio State University
calbert.5 at osu.edu
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