{"id":52393,"date":"2026-10-01T15:16:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccbt.rekibun.or.jp\/?post_type=event&p=52393"},"modified":"2026-10-01T15:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:16:40","slug":"scratchpad-1","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/ccbt.rekibun.or.jp\/en\/events\/scratchpad-1","title":{"rendered":"Yang Ikumi Scratchpad #1 “Looking Up, Down, and Across: Why Start Creating a Performance from a Thousand-Year-Old Painting?”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Part of the Waiting for Spring project by 2026 artist fellow Yang Ikumi, Scratchpad is a series of public research events featuring invited experts from various fields.
The first session welcomes Kuraya Mika, director of the Yokohama Museum of Art.
Yang views performance as a form of landscape painting with people, creating situations where the audience, performers, city, moving image, and sound all overlap. In Waiting for Spring, she extends this practice into the urban environments of Harajuku and Shibuya, exploring the relationships surrounding society, the city, clothing, and the body.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In the Northern-Song painter Guo Xi\u2019s Early Spring <\/em>(1072), multiple modalities of representing perspective known as high, deep, and level distance coexist within a single composition. Rather than surveying the landscape from a single, fixed vantage point, the viewer encounters distances, locations, and moments in time that vary as their perspective shifts.

In the present day, where several locations and events exist simultaneously and constantly interconnect, how can we grasp the world? Is it possible to conceive of the individual not as an independent subject, but as something that emerges from within a web of others, environments, and various kinds of relationship?

For this public research event, the artist Yang Ikumi is joined by the Yokohama Museum of Art\u2019s director, Kuraya Mika, who has a wealth of experience examining Japanese and international contemporary art, for a discussion that takes Guo Xi\u2019s Early Spring<\/em> as a starting point for considering the nature of looking\/viewing and being in the world. Instead of aiming solely for a specialized art-historical analysis of Early Spring<\/em>, the event opens up Guo Xi\u2019s sense of multiple perspectives and distances as well as different temporalities and incidents all coexisting within a single space, and applies it to contemporary art and society.

Starting from these questions, the talk examines Yang\u2019s work-in-progress for CCBT. By connecting with perspectives linking multiple positions, as well as with a sense of time that encompasses waiting for a spring that may or may not arrive, it explores ways of perceiving the world beyond a single point of view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guo Xi Early Spring<\/em> (1072), Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Image: National Palace Museum, Taipei, CC0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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