Events

video exchange program "who you know? who knows you?"

27 February 2010 - 20 March 2010

A Joshibi University of Art and Design exhibition will show the outcomes from dialogue between Australian, Japanese and Portuguese students with video as the medium of exchange. Entitled "who you know? what knows you?", the project examines the perceptions of video material from one another's countries. In light of the obvious difficulties presented by emergent misunderstandings and stereotypes, the students have attempted to create a model of mutual sharing.

Rather than assuming or attempting to achieve a total understanding of one another, the group have begun from the starting point of acknowledging the difficulties of understanding. They take inspiration from the writings of Edouard Glissant, who, in response to the globalised world, celebrates opacity, the preservation of which preserves diversity. By releasing themselves from the implied obligation to understand, and the fear of misunderstanding each other, they regard the 'video exchange project' as a shared agreement to coexist within a diverse opaque space.

video exchange program "who you know? who knows you?"

Exhibition
Date	27 February 2010 - 20 March 2010 Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays
	13:00 - 19:00 Opening party on Saturday 27 February 2010, 17:00
Venue	art & river bank 1-55-20-206 Denenchofu, Ota-ku, Tokyo 3 min walk from Tamagawa Station Phone: 03-3721-9421 Website*: http://www.art-and-river-bank.net/
Admission	Admission free

Talk event "Post-colonialism and Archipelago"
Date	6 March 2010
	17:00 - Speakers: Suga Keijiro, Meiji University School of Science and Technology Sugita Atsushi, Joshibi University of Art and Design
Venue	art & river bank 1-55-20-206 Denenchofu, Ota-ku, Tokyo 3 min walk from Tamagawa Station Phone: 03-3721-9421 Website*: http://www.art-and-river-bank.net/