We will be hosting the AWAI Global Forum 2022 "Re-Encountering Animism: Arts of Relating with the Worlds of Life" on 3-4 December! This forum will explore how we can reconnect animistic and mythical worlds in the contemporary context.
Lectures, dialogues, and performances will be given by some of the leading researchers, practitioners, and artists in the fields of anthropology, philosophy, visual and sound art, technology, food, agriculture, and food.
By cultivating the sensibilities toward multiple realities that are emerging from ambiguous multilayered worlds around us, we will reimagine more grounded and caring ontologies for the more-than-human worlds.
DATE: 3-4 December, 2022, 10.00-13.30 CET
VENUE: Online (Zoom)
LANGUAGES: English / Japanese
HP: https://www.forum.ecologicalmemes.me/?1
SPEAKERS・SESSIONS：
＜DAY1：12月3日 18:00-21:30JST＞
・Animism at the nexus of anthropology and art: the West and the East, science and religion
Navigator: Katsumi Okuno〔Anthopologist〕, Anais Karenin〔Artist〕
・Alternative mythology for future folklore Navigator: Antoine Bertin〔Artist〕, Toshiaki Ishikura〔Mythologist / Anthropologist〕
・Reflective Time
Guest: Maki Ohkojima（Artist）, Nobuyoshi Ohmuro（Social innovation researcher）, Yasuhiro Kobayashi
＜DAY2：12月4日 18:00-21:30JST＞
・Food, Agriculture and Animism: Food and Spirit rooted in Climate and Land
Navigator: Ruud Hendriks〔Researcher / Teacher〕, Yasunobu Tamari〔Designer, / Art Photographer〕
・Animism of things and bodies: fashion and material culture in the post-human era
Navigator: Raquel Buj 〔Fashion Designer / Artist / Architect〕, Daijiro Mizuno 〔Design Researcher〕
・Reflective Time
Guest: Lisa Kirimura. Yasuhiro Kobayashi, Saki Hibino
Forum Director：Saki Hibino, Hillen Oost, Shuhei Tashiro, Aimi Sunaga, Yasuhiro Kobayashi
Text & Concept Design：Saki Hibino, Yasuhiro Kobayashi
Creative Director : Saki Hibino
Web design : Tomoko Ikenoue
Visual design : Jonathan Auch
