SPEAKER

Yosuke Takahashi

Assistant Curator at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

PROFILE

Born in 1985 in Tokyo.
Assistant Curator at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Graduated from the graduated school of Fine Arts

His most major projects at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa include “DeathLAB: Democratizing Death” (2018-2019), “Undying Life” (2017-2018), “Ghost in the Cell”(2015-2016) etc. Other recent exhibitions “Frankenstein 2018″ (*Japanese Title) (GYRE, 2018) etc. His main lectures include ” Renaissance by Transhumanism ” (*Japanese Title) (Tokyo University, 2015) and etc. Major issues include “DeathLAB: Democratize death” (URBAN Magazine “Mortem” , the students of Urban Planning at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, 2018), ” Semi-Living Material Issues on Bio-Fashion ” (*Japanese Title) “Vanitas 005” (Adachi Press, 2018) and etc. Art journal (bijutsutecho) issued in January 2018 “Special feature bio art” editing cooperation. Professionalized posthuman aesthetics and art of superhumanism.

SCHEDULE

January 19th (Saturday)
13:55 - 14:55