Talk Session: Hiroko Tasaka on the Position of Animation in Recent Visual Art and Culture

Talk Session:
Hiroko Tasaka on the Position of
Animation in Recent Visual Art
and Culture

What is the current position of animation as a medium of expression in the moving image, or in the visual arts in general?　Hiroko Tasaka, curator at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, and also responsible for the much-discussed exhibition of Exonemo (in which “animation” in the broadest sense of the word is often used), explores the current position of animation as moving image in a conversation with Festival Director Doi Nobuaki.

Guest

Hiroko Tasaka

Curator of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum/Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Vision. She has curated “exonemo UN-DEAD-LINK” (2020), “Japanese Expanded Cinema Revisited” (2017) , and “Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Ghosts in the Darkness” (2016–17) etc. She was a director of Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2018 and 2020, which she has worked as one of the curators since 2009.

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