A year has gone by since our AWAI Global Forum 2022, "Re-Encountering Animism: Arts of Relating with the Worlds of Life," held on Dec 3-4, 2022. To celebrate this moment and show our appreciation, we are making ALL archives free on YouTube.
How do animism and myth open up channels to more-than-human worlds? What makes them so important today? We explored these questions by diving into anthropology, art, mythology, food, agriculture, fashion, speculative design. Take a peek at this cross-disciplinary conversation!
Day 1
Opening (Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Saki Hibino)
Day 1 Session A
Animism at the nexus of anthropology and art: The West and the East, science and religion (Katsumi Okuno, Anais Karenin)
Day 1 Session B
Alternative mythology for future folklore (Antoine Bertin, Toshiaki Ishikura)
Day 1
Reflective crosstalk (Guido Sprenger, Maki Ohkojima, Nobuyoshi Ohmuro)
Day 2 Opening (Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Hillen Oost)
Day 2 Session A
Food, agriculture and animism: Food and spirit rooted in climate and land (Ruud Hendriks, Yasunobu Tamari)
Day 2 Session B
Animism of things and bodies: Fashion and material culture in the post-human era (Raquel Buj, Daijiro Mizuno)
Day 2
Closing talk (Nayeli Vega, Lisa Kirimura, Tokushu Inamura)