From “Yojo-Han” Art Center to “Untitled School of Arts”

9. Oktober 2018, 12.00 Uhr Interface Culture Lecture Room, Domgasse 1, 3.OG, DO.03.27

The Possibility of a Local Art Education Network Developing from a Bedroom-sized Art Center

(collaborator: Ko Yamada）

Die Abteilung Interface Cultures lädt zum Gastvortrag von Takuji Okagawa.

Takuji Okagawa is new media artist, director of art center “Yojo-Han”, lecturer at Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University in Japan. This time, Okagawa gives a lecture mainly on contents of art center “Yojo-Han”.

In 2012, the alternative art center “Yojo-Han”, named after the popular 8.25 m² unit size of old Japanese bed-sits, was established. Unlike NPO-run large facilities demanding much maintenance, the art center is a small and semi-private space for public art education activities. There are four directors with equal authority for this small institution. Through well-organized scheduling, this tiny space transforms into a photography school, poetry seminar, sculpture school, graduate-level digital seminar, various workshops, streaming radio station, and other events. This lecture introduces the center's activities, summarizing this format's function and its social importance in public art education. Furthermore, the concept of local networks of such unique art schools as an “Untitled School of Arts” is introduced as a system to facilitate sustainable public art education.

www.yojohanartcenter.com