表題番号:2022C-613 日付:2023/04/06
研究課題Artistic Thinking with Sea as Center
研究者所属(当時) 資格 氏名
(代表者) 理工学術院 基幹理工学部 准教授 ジャック ジェームズ
研究成果概要

This project engages with the sea as a source, resource and center for artistic thinking. Its methodology relies on ocean currents and other wet cartographies that decenter the authority of land-based knowledge in current systems of thought. Artistic research actively inserts “a seascape epistemology” (Amimoto Ingersoll 2016) to expand the lexicon of discourse with diverse perspectives from the sea. Interisland networks of solidarity focused on justice (Chinen 2010) are sustained with creative work in colors of red ochre, burnt sienna and mud taupe. Ancestors live on in active weaving of teachings from islander traditions, botanic richness and more than human species. In resistance to hierarchical forms of diplomacy, we engage with “the muddled journey of decolonialization” (Yamashiro 2022) to heal traumas of colonialism. Seeds nourished with love on “points in the Pacific” (Izumi 2013) including Tokunoshima, Shōdoshima and Hawai‘i Island impact other places (Toshi 2014). Exhibitions, publications and online features share these imaginative perspectives with diverse communities.