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The following is an article that appeared in the Kyoto Newspaper in April 2012, in reference to the International / Interdisciplinary Research Project 'SHIZENGAKU: Nature, Material and Aspects of Identity and Creation’, instigated and coordinated by Dr Naomi Matsumoto, associate lecturer in the Music Department.
‘SHIZENGAKU’ Project with an English University
On 20 April, an international symposium was held at Seian University of Fine Arts and Design in relation to the University’s collaborative research project with the Music Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London (photo). The project is to investigate the relationship between Nature and artistic creativity and the symposium marked the official launch of the project where members of the project (lecturers of the two universities) presented initial ideas about their work.
The two universities exchanged a partnership contract in 2010. The ‘SHIZENGAKU’ project has arisen as the first collaborative research project from the partnership. Under current circumstances where ecological issues are global concerns, the project is to aim to construct a new aesthetics by exploring the relation between Art and Nature from both practical and theoretical perspectives.
With 6 lecturers of the two universities as the core members, other lecturers and students will participate in the project. First, a painter and a sound-artist will create collaborative work with water-front scenes as its subject and theorists will contemplate the meanings of the work thereafter.
All the 6 core members took part in the symposium on the 20th, explaining their intentions and reporting their fieldwork in the vicinity of the Lake Biwa.
The project is to last for the next two years. They will have a public exhibition in the Shiga National Museum (Otsu-City) in August this year, where art works will be shown and an international symposium will be held. Another exhibition in England will follow in the Spring 2013.
KONISHI, Takayuki.
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