PARASOPHIA 京都国際現代芸術祭2015

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The Access Program focuses on the artists participating in Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015 and invites participants to take various approaches in getting to know the artists and their works, so that they will be prepared to enjoy the exhibition in 2015 on a deeper level. For this Access Program, the curator of contemporary art and film at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto will give a talk on the works by Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015 participating artist that are currently being shown in the museum’s Collection Gallery. Participants in this program are also encouraged to attend the artist’s lecture, which will be held in the museum lobby at 7:00PM.

Personal Antidisaster Plan // “Contemporary Art: Personal Antidisaster Plan,” from the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto’s 1st Collection Gallery Exhibition 2014–2015, from March 21 to May 11, 2014. Excerpt: “The biggest difference between men and animals is said to be the use of ‘clothing.’ “Wearing clothes’ or ‘being clad in fashionable attire’ is an essential theme for human existence, which constantly reminds us of our own bodies as well. From this important point of view, we organized the special exhibition entitled ‘Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset’ in 1999, which was also co-organiszed with the Kyoto Costume Institute like as the exhibition ‘Future Beauty.’ Some of the works from this former exhibition are being displayed in this current collection gallery exhibition, such as works by Antonella Piemontese in the Craft section, and works by Pipilotti Rist and Lucy Orta in the Contemporary Art section. Piemontese’s works and Orta’s works critically question the direct relationship between clothes and the body. Rist’s works poetically question the relationship of one’s own body and life with medical settings such as childbirth and endoscopic examinations. It would be greatly appreciated if these works could set the stage for our audiences to reconsider both the significance and the questions which lie at the foundations of the concept known as ‘fashion’” (The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto).
Full text and list of works: www.momak.go.jp/English/collectionGalleryArchive/2014/collectionGallery2014No01.html