ヴェネチアビエンナーレ表彰作の秘密とは？ 現代アートが描くデモクラシー・災害・ユートピアを田中功起と考える【芸術文化の勝手口 vol.35】

★New Release / Haruya Nakajima's "The Sobriety Bar" (Hon no Zasshi-sha) is now on sale! https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%96%AD%E9... XnVY9Y2WeG3BSLBocEZ0uuO44nYTkaNQU.hOsJT_1NxhLL1qJXGDejtZaOcE9Dk9eSyGL9NJVohAc&dib_tag=se&keywords=%E4% B8%AD%E5%B3%B6%E6%99%B4%E7%9F%A2&qid=1769927771&sprefix=%E4%B8%AD%E5%B3%B6%E6%99%B4%2Caps%2C194&sr=8-1 ★Koki Tanaka guest first part!    • 欧米現代美術の世界をヴェネチアビエンナーレ日本代表作家 田中功起が語る！【芸術文化の...   ★Self-Introduction Video Haruya Nakajima    • ドロップアウトから現代美術家へ！ニュータウン生まれのサブカル麻布生がポスト3.11に...   Keita Saito    • オセロ日本2位で東大相撲部に居候？麻布・渋家・演劇・出版・アート…異色のキャリア・キ...   "The Back Door to Art and Culture" is a YouTube channel where artist and writer Haruya Nakajima and visual artist and curator Keita Saito talk about various aspects of art and culture. In the 35th episode, Koki Tanaka, the Japanese representative artist at the Venice Biennale 2013, makes a return appearance! He reflects on his relationship with the Japanese art scene after 3.11 and his experiences and practices at Venice. Focusing on his representative works, "Nine Hairdressers Cutting One Person's Hair" and "Five Pianists Playing One Piano," this program explores the processes of relationships, dialogue, and the possibilities of democracy. Furthermore, it delves into the current state of contemporary art, including political practices in the late 2010s and the Münster Sculpture Project. Please subscribe and like! Chapters 00:00 OP: Koki Tanaka Guest Episode Part 2! 00:53 Distance and Abstraction: 3.11 and the Venice Biennale 11:02 The Process of Relationships: Democracy, Disaster, and Utopia 22:45 Politics and Concrete: The Münster Sculpture Project and Asia 28:23 ED: The Challenge Continues! [Profile] Koki Tanaka Born in Tochigi Prefecture in 1975. Studied briefly at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1998, and graduated from the Department of Painting, Tokyo Zokei University in 2000. She completed her Master's degree in Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2005. In 2009, she studied in Los Angeles through the Agency for Cultural Affairs' Overseas Training Program for Emerging Artists. Through video, installations, and writing, she has visualized multiple contexts hidden in everyday life. In recent years, she has been creating works that focus on collaboration between people. At the Venice Biennale in 2013, she participated as the representative artist of the Japan Pavilion and held the exhibition "abstract speaking - sharing uncertainty and collective acts" (curated by Mika Kuraya, head of the curatorial department at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo). At the exhibition, she exhibited a video of five ceramic artists collaborating to create a single ceramic piece and received a special award. In 2015, she was selected as Deutsche Bank's Artist of the Year. Her major publications include "Asking Questions Part 1 (2009 - 2013)" (ART iT, 2013). In 2016, he held his first large-scale solo exhibition in Japan, "Koki Tanaka: The Possibility of Being Together, an Experiment" (Mito Art Museum Contemporary Art Gallery). This exhibition showcased Tanaka's activities since 2010, and featured the new work "Temporary Study: Workshop #4 The Possibility of Being Together, its Arrangement," created in collaboration with general participants. Haruya Nakajima Artist. Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1989. Graduated from Hosei University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Japanese Literature, and completed the Bijutsu Gakko (Art School). Since 2019, he has been an instructor at Bijutsu Gakko's "Back Door to Contemporary Art" and co-director of the project team "Nozarashi." Using modern literature, subculture, and urban studies as guides, he develops cross-disciplinary activities encompassing contemporary art, writing, and rap. He practices actual and critical expression, sprinkled with humor and irony, in mixed media. His major solo exhibitions include "Utopia" (WHITEHOUSE/2025), and his books include "Oil on Townscape" (Ronso-sha/2022). Twitter:   / haruya02   Instagram:   / haruya02   Keita Saito An artist from Tokyo. Director of Arts Council Kanazawa, and CEO of ShibuCreation Co., Ltd. (Shibu House). In 2008, he founded "Shibu House," a land art project set in the city. Since then, he has been active in production, curation, criticism, theater, editing, and lecturing. He edited "Conditions of Tokyo" (2009–2011), wrote the theatrical work "Non-Theater" (2015), and launched the critical journal "Arguments" from 2015 to 2018. In recent years, he successfully curated the exhibition "Periphery, Development, and Situation" (2025) at the Shimose Museum of Art in Hiroshima. Twitter:   / _satoketa   Editorial Assistant: Rin Hashikawa #Art #ContemporaryArt #VideoArt #VeniceBiennale #ContemporaryThought #Criticism #Bigakko #...