Events

The University of Michigan Department of the History of Art presents:

Room for Another View: China’s Art in Disciplinary Perspective

Ehrlicher Room, 3100 North Quad, 105 S. State St., Ann Arbor

Free and open to the public. For conference schedule visit http://www.lsa.umich.edu/histart/events or call 734.764.5400

An international conference exploring meta-disciplinary perspectives around such topics as academies, print, landscape, gardens, fashion, canons, and the language of art itself.

February 22–25, 2012, Los Angeles Convention Center
Registration opens in early October 2011

The College Art Association (CAA) will head to the Golden State to celebrate the conclusion of its Centennial year at the 100th Annual Conference, taking place February 22–25, 2012, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. As the preeminent international forum for the visual arts, the CAA conference brings together over 5,000 artists, art historians, students, educators, critics, curators, collectors, librarians, gallerists, and other professionals in the visual arts.

Conference highlights will include:

Speakers and panelists will present their recent artistic projects and art-historical research, while others will talk about relevant issues in pedagogy, technology, publishing, and the academic workforce. Historical and contemporary art in Los Angeles will be another important focus. Notable session titles include:

**Japan Art History Forum
Commensurable Distinctions: Japanese Art History and Its Others
Saturday, February 25, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level 2, Los Angeles Convention Center
Chair: Bert Winther-Tamaki, University of California, Irvine

Pictorial Photography and the “Japanese Aesthetic"
Karen Fraser, Santa Clara University

Collage Modernity: Women, Machines, and Surrealism in the Paintings of Koga Harue
Chinghsin Wu, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Picasso as the Other: First “Global” Polemics of a Postwar Ceramic/Painting Dichotomy
Yasuko Tsuchikane, Parsons The New School for Design

The Struggle for a Page in Art History: The Global and National Ambitions of Japanese Contemporary Artists from the 1990s
Adrian Favell, Sciences Po
Discussant: Miya Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California

Other papers and panels:

**Happenings: Transnational, Transdisciplinary
Wednesday, February 22, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM

Yayoi Kusama’s Psychedelic Happenings: Sexual Revolution and Brain Change
Midori Yamamura, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Another Dimension of Happenings in 1960s Japan: The Play’s Voyages into Landscape
Reiko Tomii, independent scholar

**Activating History, Activating Asia: East Asian Art Practice
Wednesday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
The Gendered Politics of Representation: The Rise and Fall of Young Women’s Photography in Nineties Japan
Thomas O'Leary, University of California

**Pop and Politics, Part I
Thursday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Tokyo as a Cold War Site: Jasper Johns’s Visit in 1964
Hiroko Ikegami, Kobe University

**Coalition of Women in the Arts Organization
Asian American Women Artists: A Postmodern Perspective
Thursday, February 23, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
The Art of Being Asian: Art and Politics of Asian American Women Artists Now
Linda Inson Choy, independent curator

**ARTspace
Out of Rubble
Friday, February 24, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Representing the Unrepresentable: The Photography of Nuclear Affliction in Postwar Japan
Claude Baillargeon, Oakland University

**Gendering the Posthuman
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Beautiful Vision for the Twenty-First Century: Mariko Mori’s Capsule Aesthetic
Kate Mondloch, University of Oregon

**The 1930s
Saturday, February 25, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Isamu Noguchi, Social Activism, and the Reinvention of Sculptural Practice
Amy Lyford, Occidental College

**Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art
Civilization and Its Others in Nineteenth-Century Art, Part II
Saturday, February 25, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM

Portable Culture: The Japanese Album as a Model for Civilization in 1860s France
Emily Brink, Stanford University

Envisioning a Civilized Nation: The Claims of Photography in Late-Nineteenth-Century Japanese Geo-Encyclopedias
Gyewon Kim, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture

Read the full press release. For more information about the 2012 Annual Conference, please write to Member Services or call 212-691-1051, ext. 1.

"Voices of Mono-ha Artists: Contemporary Art in Japan, Circa 1970"

Time: 1:30-3:30 pm

Location: University of Southern California’s Doheny Memorial Library, Room 240, The Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall

(In USC’s Park Campus, 1.8 miles south of Los Angeles Convention Center)

This event is presented by the University of Southern California Center for Japanese Religions and Culture in association with PoNJA-GenKon (a scholarly listserv for postwar Japanese art), and organized in conjunction with the exhibition Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha (February 24-April 15, 2012) at Blum & Poe, curated by Mika Yoshitake.

Made possible by support from the Japan Foundation, Los Angeles, the East Asian Studies Center (USC), and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (USC)

The program consists of brief presentations by Mika Yoshitake (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden) and Reiko Tomii (PoNJA-GenKon), followed by conversations with the Mono-ha artists (Sekine Nobuo, Koshimizu Susumu, Lee Ufan, Suga Kishio, and Haraguchi Noriyuki) moderated by Joan Kee (University of Michigan), Mika Yoshitake, and Reiko Tomii. This will be followed by a plenary discussion with Hollis Goodall (Los Angeles County Museum of Art).

This event is free and open to the public.

Please RSVP to: MailPonja@gmail.com. For further information contact: Kana Yoshida, Center for Japanese Religions and Culture, cjrc@dornsife.usc.edu.