9 September 2020

Art Action UK event on 12 September 2020 - How We Value Art: Responses During the Covid-19 Crisis

Art Action UK is holding the following online panel discussion on Saturday, 12 September:

How We Value Art: Responses During the COVID-19 Crisis

Saturday 12 September 2020, 13.00 – 14.00 (BST)

Contributors:

Nathalie Boobis, Deptford X UK; Emiko Kasahara, artist, Japan; Hanako Murakami, artist France; Chiara Dazi, artist, Germany.

This online interactive panel discussion will focus on the artists’ experience during the current global Covid-19 pandemic – as lived in Japan, the UK, France and Germany – and will include time for the audience to ask questions and share their experiences.

Through this event, Art Action UK will seek to discover how countries can demonstrate the value arts and culture by actively supporting those who contribute to their economy and wellbeing.

More information and booking form (via eventbrite) here

Profile of Contributors:

Emiko Kasahara

Artist, based in Tokyo, exhibiting internationally. Her works are in both public and private collections including Cantor Center for Visual Art, Stanford University, Palo Alto, U.S.A. , Deutsche Bank Tokyo, Japan, Fogg Art Museum at Harvard Universi-ty, Cambridge, U.S.A. Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JapanIse Foundation, Tokyo, Japan Yves Klein Foundation, Arizona, U.S.A. Major Exhibitions includes PARASOPHIA Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Cul-ture 2015, Yokohama Triennale 2014. She studied at Tama University of Art and lectures at Tama University of Arts.

Hanako Murakami

Artist, Lives and works in Paris, exhibiting internationally. Studied at Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan and Le Fresnoy, studio national d’art contemporain, France, and works at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Exhibitions include Criterium 96, Art Tower Mi-to, Japon, CONCEPTION, Prix Louis Roderer, Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France Pelliculis Pellicula, le Bonnevalle , Noisy le Sec, France Daiichi Life gallery, Tokyo, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, 2016 The Perfect, Maison de la Culture du Japon, ParisLa Photographie à l’épreuve de l’abstraction, FRAC Normandie Rouen, France, Her work is in collection of Pi-gozzi Collection.

Nathalie Boobis

Curator and Director of Deptford X festival, lives and works in London. Gained an MFA in Curating at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has managed one of the most successful editions of Deptford X Festival in 2019 with extensive programmes which included over 90 fringe projects, as well as commissioned major site specific projects. Deptford X is London’s longest running contemporary visual arts festival. It was launched in 1998 as a free, annual, artist-led festival based in and around Deptford, South East London.

Chiara Dazi

Documentary photographer based in Berlin. Born in the Italian Po Valley, studied languages and received a degree in Communication Sciences at the Università di Bologna with a thesis on the German Ostalgie, or nostalgia for the former GDR. She has worked in the archive of VU’ agency in Paris and then graduated from the Berlin Ostkreuz School of Photography, widely exhibited in France, Germany and the Republic of Moldova.

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Art Action UK is a collective of artists, curators, gallerists and writers who are exploring various means to show solidarity and support for artists who have been affected by natural and manmade disasters. The 2011 Japanese earthquake, tsunami and subsequent Fukushima nuclear fallout has been the catalyst for Art Action UK. AAUK has been Awarding Residency Project to host artists in the UK and delivering a wide range of events. http://www.artactionuk.org/