Belief and Photography

Lecturer: Chihiro Minatol Photographer and Curator, Professor of Tama Art University, Information Design Department

Time: Saturday, June 3, 2017, 14: 30-17: 00

Venue: TFAM Auditorium

Co-panelist: Shih-Lun Chang l Critic and Researcher　

(Japanese Lecture, Chinese consecutive translation available.)

Synopsis

In today's society, countless photos on the Internet have formed an "image nebula," and the relationship between people and photography has changed dramatically. Photographs in the past retained the traces of their subjects, and therefore these photographic works are looked at and treated differently, whereas today, photos have the functions of personal surveillance and profiling. Do we still agree that there is a spiritual dimension in the photographic works? Using the " Kau-Puê, Mutual Companionship in Near Future" held in Tainan in 2017 as an example, Chihiro Minato will examine the possibilities of modern photography in the field woven by art and anthropology, and present expressions of Japanese art and anthropology to explore the relationship between photography and ancestor worship, and conduct contemporary study on photography and the art of memory.

Chihiro Minato was born in 1960 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan and is photographer and anthropologist (Visual Anthropology), currently Professor at Tama Art University, Information Design Department. He graduated from the Department of Political Science, School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University in 1984. Following that, he started working as photographer and writer based in Paris. In 2007, he was commissioner of the Japanese Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale. Since 1995 he has taught at Tama Art University and is one of members of Art Anthropology Institute. He does research, production work, exhibition, publication, and curation, covering a wide range of civilization themes such as “crowd,” and “memory.” His current works are published as Walk in Paris, Recurrence theory of the Art (2011), Jomon in your hand (2011), The voyage into the Void (2012), Making revolution (2014). He was mini-museum curator for Taipei Biennial 2012 and Artistic Director of Aichi Triennale 2016.

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