Artists in the midst of the pandemic
As the third edition of Setouchi Asia Forum, Setouchi Triennale and Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale present Artists’ Breath Live, an online program focusing on how artists are living, thinking and creating in the midst of the pandemic.
The Setouchi Asia Forum was launched as a part of Setouchi Triennale 2016 with the aim of creating a platform for people from Asian countries and regions who had been (or wished to be) involved in regional revitalization through art and culture by sharing their experiences, learning from each other, and discussing their ideas, in order to build continuous and sustainable relationships. The second edition of the forum was held in 2019, joined by 33 organizations from 15 Asian countries and regions. This time, we would like to expand the scope to all over the world and make it an online form in which global artists participate.
Over these one and a half years since the outbreak of the new coronavirus, traveling, dining, gathering, and exhibitions have been restricted, and the humanity that humankind had acquired over two hundred thousand years has been lost. Despite being in such difficult time, it encourages us to hear from artists who continue to think and create their works. The desire to contact with art is growing stronger and stronger, and there has never been a time when artists’ ideas and works have become hope.
Artists’ Breath Live consists of a digital publishing of a booklet composed of over 100 artists’ texts and an online forum delivering 30 artists’ three-minute report each, showing the diversity of artists and the simultaneity of the world.
Online forum
Date: Sunday, October 17, 2021
Time: 4:30–7:35pm（JST）
Free admission
Participating artists:
Christiaan Bastiaans, Nicolas Darrot, Ayse Erkmen, Stasys Eidrigevičius, Mounir Fatmi, José de Guimaraes, Kendell Geers, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Tadashi Kawamata, Dinh Q.Le, Emma Malig, Eko Nugroho, Alexander Ponomarev, Jaume Plensa, Esther Stocker, Kidlat Tahimik, Leonid Tishkov, Wang Wen-Chi, Richard Wilson, Donald Wasswa and more
YouTube channel:
In English
In Japanese
Digital booklet
The digital booklet containing about 100 artists’ texts and works will be distributed from October 11 through this link.
Contributors:
Yusuke Asai, Massimo Bartolini, Aigars Bikse, Christiaan Bastiaans, Lauren Berkowitz, Simon Beer, Hans Op de Beeck, Cai Guo-Qiang, Sokari Douglas Camp, Yoan Capote, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miler, Manal Al Dowayan, Elmgreen & Dragset, Nicolas Darrot, Jimmie Durham, Ayse Erkmen, Stasys Eidrigevičius, Leandro Erlich, Fieldoffice Architects, Fiona Foley, Mounir Fatmi, Fernando Foglino, Anne Graham, Jose de Guimaraes, Kendell Geers, Ann Hamilton, Francisco Infante, Jimmy Liao, Véronique Joumard, joylabo, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, John Körmeling, Anish Kapoor, Mischa Kuball, Tadashi Kawamata, Tomoko Konoike, Liu Jianhua, Dinh Q. Le, Janet Laurence, Llobet & Pons, Ma Yansong / MAD Architects, Ekaterina Muromtseva, Emma Malig, Lavar Munroe, Tadashi Maeyama, Eko Nugroho, Maria Nepomuceno, Moataz Nasr, Yoshitaka Nanjo, Oscar Oiwa, Damian Ortega, Atsushi Ozawa, Sopheap Pich, Alexander Ponomarev, Jaume Plensa, Tobias Putrih, Arin Rungjang, Raqs Media Collective, Tobias Rehberger, Pablo Reinoso, Esther Stocker, Santiago Sierra, Gerda Steiner & Jorg Lenzlinger, David Spriggs, Motoyuki Shitamichi, Kidlat Tahimik, Leonid Tishkov, Tam Wai Ping, Seizo Tashima, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Milla Vaahtera, Felice Varini, Simon Vega, Wang Wen-Chi, Richard Wilson, Xiang Yang and more
Organized by Setouchi Triennale Executive Committee
Co-organized by Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale Executive Committee
Fukutake Foundation
Artists’ Breath Live is supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs for the Enhancement of Cultural Arts Activities to Overcome the COVID-19 Pandemic
Contact: Setouchi Asia Forum 2021 Artists’ Breath Live Secretariat, artfront [at] artfront.co.jp
