The 1st day of the seminar takes place on January 23, 2014, from 13:00 to 17:00 at The National Museum of Denmark (Ny Vestergade 10, 1471 Copenhagen K), Banquet Room, 1st floor. Free admission. Capacity: 180.
The 2nd day of the seminar takes place on January 24, 2014, from 10:00 to 14:30 at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Kgs. Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen K), Auditorium of the School of Media Art. Free admission. Capacity: 50.
As part of the exhibition Girl with Parasol, The National Museum of Denmark is currently showing — until April 28, 2014 — a selection of Japanese hand-coloured photographs from the Ceschin-Pilone/Fagioli Photographic Collection. In connection with this exhibition, and with support from the Danish Agency for Culture, The National Museum of Denmark, the Museo delle Culture – Lugano and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts have collaborated on a two-day seminar about Japanese photography from the Meiji period and its cultural, historical and artistic significance.
The invited speakers share their knowledge on Japanese photography to give the audience an impression of central questions from their professional and cultural fields. The seminar takes the exhibited artworks as a starting point for introducing the audience to Japanese visual culture and photography, contextualising them within the framework of the globetrotter tourist industry and its significance for the Western view of Japan. The seminar presents the Japanese aesthetic universe, its technical elements and ideographic methods, connecting them to contemporary art. The cultural and visual approach to interpreting Japanese art from the 19th century is an important part of visual anthropology, which engages with central differences between Oriental and Occidental aesthetics.
Programme — January 23, 2014
13:00–13:15 — Welcoming by Christian Sune Pedersen, Keeper at The National Museum of Denmark
13:15–13:45 — Introduction to the collaboration between Museo delle Culture in Lugano, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and The National Museum of Denmark by Martin Petersen, Curator and Senior Researcher, PhD, The National Museum of Denmark; Paolo Campione, Director, Museo delle Culture in Lugano; and Carsten Juhl, Head of the Theory Department, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
13:45–14:15 — Visual Culture in Japan around 1900 by Gunhild Borggreen, Associate Professor, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen
14:15–14:30 — Coffee break
14:30–15:00 — Introduction to the collection and technical photographic issues of the Yokohama School by Moira Luraschi, researcher in charge of the Japanese photographs collection, Museo delle Culture in Lugano
15:00–15:30 — Intersections between globetrotter travel and commercial tourist photography by Allen Hockley, Chair, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program; Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Dartmouth College
15:30–16:00 — Break
16:00–16:45 — Introduction and vernacularisation of photography in nineteenth-century Japan by Morihiro Satow, Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, Faculty of Design, Kyoto Seika University
16:45–17:00 — Questions
Programme — January 24, 2014
10:00–10:15 — Introduction by Tijana Mišković, Research Project Coordinator, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
10:15–10:45 — Some differences concerning spiritual investments in visual art between occidental and oriental aesthetics by Carsten Juhl, Head of the Theory Department, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
10:45–11:15 — Technical and ideographic methods in the Yokohama School by Paolo Campione, Director, Museo delle Culture in Lugano
11:15–11:45 — What did globetrotters see in early Japanese photographs? by Allen Hockley, Dartmouth College
11:45–12:00 — Questions
12:00–13:00 — Lunch break
13:00–13:30 — Bridging Japanese aesthetics from the 19th century with contemporary art by Miwako Tezuka, Director, Japan Society Gallery, New York
13:30–14:00 — Tourism, Photography and Expositions: Yokohama Shashin and the visual culture of the late 19th century by Morihiro Satow, Kyoto Seika University
14:00–14:30 — Questions
For more information about the seminar, please contact Tijana Mišković: tijana.miskovic@gmail.com
Photos by Thierry Wieleman and Ismar Čirkinagić.
