Education
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Since its foundation in 1993, the Art Center has pursued a number of inter-disciplinary activities relating to the fine arts, music, bodily expression, and literature. At the same time it investigates the possibilities and problems with the current state of creative and cultural activities, such as arts management and archival practices in contemporary society. Since 2007, we have placed a particular emphasis on organizing courses related to our various research expertize, both through courses at the Art Center, and through the various lectures and seminars offered by Art Center fellows, at Keio University Mita Campus.
Colloquium: Archival Research / Seminar: Archival Research
The aim of this course is to develop a methodology for observing, recording, preserving, communicating, including, and expressing diverse current events and their expressions, based on the state of art archives and the pursuit of artistic research and activities through art archives. Specifically, we think about various events related to art and the materials organized around them through the theory and practice of "Archive". "What is an archive, what are the conditions under which an archive is established, what an archive can do, and how to build an archive" This thinking is organized around these 4 questions. The main task of this lecture is to learn the basic methods of building an archive through these ideas based on a practical model of specific artistic activities, and to think about art. We expect the participation of students, not only those who study art, but also from a wide variety of research fields.