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Discussion with Yuko Hasegawa commemorating her appointment as IHJ advisor for art and design, Now on YouTube
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IHJ Cultural Lobby
Discussion with Yuko Hasegawa commemorating her appointment as IHJ advisor for art and design, Now on YouTube
The International House of Japan is engaged in activities ranging from international relations, area studies, and geopolitics to art, aesthetics, and architecture. Newly appointed advisor for art and design Yuko Hasegawa discusses the potential for new knowledge and practices resulting from synergies among these various fields with Institute of Geopolitics Director Kazuto Suzuki in a video moderated by Program Division Director Ken Jimbo.
Director, Art and Design
Yuko Hasegawa
Yuko Hasegawa is a curator, educator and writer based out of Tokyo. She currently holds positions as Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University of the Arts, Visiting Professor of Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, and Artistic Director of the Inujima Art House Project. She was also Visiting Professor at the Department of Philosophy of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2023, and the Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo until 2021 where she curated solo exhibitions of Dumb Type, Olafur Eliasson and rhizomatiks among others.
She has curated Japanese contemporary art and media and technology extensively both domestically and internationally. Her curatorial language is interdisciplinary, encompassing not simply art but also architecture, design, science and anthropology, and combined with global curating experience, allows her to view art as part of a single, holistic ecology.
Hasegawa has also curated, either solo or in a joint capacity, international art biennials including the 7th International Istanbul Biennial (2001), the Shanghai Biennale (2002), the 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010), the Sharjah Biennial 11 (2013), and the 7th Moscow Biennale (2017), Thailand Biennale, Korat (2021) and also served as art advisor to the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale (2010).
In parallel with her curating roles, as a professor of curatorial and art theory at the Tama Art University, Tokyo since 2005 until 2016, and professor of Curatorial Studies at the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Global Arts since 2015 until 2023, Yuko Hasegawa taught students of multiple nationalities, while continuing to construct curatorial theories and contribute to the development of contemporary art discourse from non-western-centric points of view.
Hasegawa has been honored with the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France (2015), the Ordem de Rio Branco, Brazil (2017), and Japan Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Award, the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan (2020).
[Concurrent Positions]
Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University of the Arts
Visiting Professor of Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Director, Institute of Geoeconomics
Kazuto Suzuki
Kazuto Suzuki is Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Department of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, and received his Ph.D. from Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, England. He has worked for the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique in Paris, France as an assistant researcher, as an Associate Professor at the University of Tsukuba from 2000 to 2008, and served as Professor of International Politics at Hokkaido University until 2020. He also spent one year at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University from 2012 to 2013 as a visiting researcher. He served as an expert in the Panel of Experts for Iranian Sanction Committee under the United Nations Security Council from 2013 to July 2015. He has been the President of the Japan Association of International Security and Trade.
Managing Director (Representative Director), International House of Japan ／President, Asia Pacific Initiative
Ken Jimbo
JIMBO Ken is Professor at the Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University. He served as a Special Advisor to the Minister of Defense, Japan Ministry of Defense (2020) and a Senior Advisor, The National Security Secretariat (2018-20).
His main research fields are in International Security, Japan-US Security Relations, Japanese Foreign and Defense Policy, Multilateral Security in Asia-Pacific, and Regionalism in East Asia. He has been a policy advisor for various Japanese governmental commissions and research groups including for the National Security Secretariat, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His policy writings have appeared in NBR, The RAND Corporation, Stimson Center, Pacific Forum CSIS, Japan Times, Nikkei, Yomiuri, Asahi and Sankei Shimbun.
[Concurrent Position]
Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University
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