2015 GAX Colloquium: Transpacific Art Circulations / Islands

Tuesday, July 7, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Presented by the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Department of Art and Art History and Art Gallery and Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program in collaboration with the Asian/Pacific American Institute at NYU as an initiative of the 2015 Global Asia/Pacific Art Exchange (GAX)

The colloquium will be discussing Transpacific circulations of art and practice, drawing on presentations by artists engaging in transpacific and transnational diasporic practice, curators involved in framings of the Asia/Pacific within the global and scholars involved in research and discourse building within the field. The colloquium is free and open to the public and hopes to create discussion on existing nodes of art historical discourse and how Transpacific framings allow for possible expanded ways of exploring work and practice.

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1:00PM
Welcome:
Rod Bengston, Director, The Art Gallery at University of Hawai‘i
Introductory Remarks:
Alexandra Chang, NYU Asian/Pacific/American Institute / Margo Machida, University of Connecticut, Storrs

1:15-2:55PM
Panel 1: Transpacific Circulations

Eating in Public (Gaye Chan and Nandita Sharma), Honolulu
Yuki Kihara, Interdisciplinary Artist, Samoa and New Zealand
Trisha Lagaso Goldberg, Independent Curator and Commissions Project Manager, Hawai‘i State Foundation on Arts and Cultures
John Tain, Curator, Getty Research Institute
Fumio Nanjo, Director, Mori Art Museum

Discussants:

David Goldberg, Art and Cultural Critic, Lead Developer and Project Coordinator for the UH Mānoa Digital Arts and Humanities Initiative
Tom Looser, East Asian Studies, New York University
Moderator: Karen Kosasa, Museum Studies, University of Hawai‘i

2:55-4:25PM
Panel 2: Island Modernism and Global Flows

Introduction and panel moderator: Mark Johnson, Professor and Gallery Director, San Francisco State University
Jay Jensen, Curator of Contemporary Art, Honolulu Museum of Art
Tom Wolf, Professor, Bard College
Discussant: Marcia Morse, Artist and Independent Art Critic and Curator

4:25-4:55PM
In Conversation: Satoru Abe and John Koga, Artists, Honolulu

4:55-5PM
Closing Remarks

Art and Art History Departments at University of Hawai‘i
The Art Gallery at University of Hawai‘i
Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program at University of Hawai‘i

 

Special thanks to the support of
NYU’s Office of the Provost Global Research Initiatives

 

Major Travel Sponsor Hawaiian Airlines