Sharjapan–Inter-Resonance: Inter-Organics Japanese Performance and Sound Art
Exhibition Guide
Paperback
100 pages, 26 visuals
16.5 x 11.5 cm
English and Arabic
Published by Sharjah Art Foundation
2019
This exhibition guide documents the second iteration of Sharjapan, a four-year collaboration with Yuko Hasegawa, Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts, and curator of Sharjah Biennial 11 (2013). It includes a foreword by Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, as well as an introductory text by Hasegawa.
Inter-Resonance: Inter-Organics emphasised performance and sound-based installations that imagined new ecologies of nature and materiality. Introducing the unique Japanese philosophy of animism, which imbues respect for the mutual relationships between human and non-human beings in contemporary art, the selection of installations and performances considered the past, present and future of human and non-human realms. Participating artists included Eitetsu Hayashi, Yuko Mohri, Mirai Moriyama, Tomoko Sauvage, Keiichiro Shibuya and Min Tanaka.