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< Special Event >
Yuko Hasegawa × Emanuele Coccia
Dialogue on "Everyday Enchantment"
Date: 11.4 Mon. 18:00-19:30
Venue: Espace images, Institut français de Tokyo MAP ▶
15 Ichigaya-funagawara-machi, Shinjuku-ku
advance registration required free admissionCo-organized by: CHANEL Nexus Hall, Institut français de Tokyo
At CHANEL Nexus Hall, Yuko Hasegawa (Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University of the Arts) is launching a new exhibition series in collaboration with Hasegawa Lab, a project that aims to develop curators for the next generation. To commemorate the first exhibition in the series, CHANEL Nexus Hall and Institut français Tokyo are jointly organizing a dialogue between Yuko Hasegawa—the exhibition's artistic director—and Emanuele Coccia.
This special event explores how art interacts with everyday life and shakes up our sensibilities, as well as how daily life functions as a site of magical experiences from a philosophical perspective that transcends the boundaries between nature and humanity.
The dialogue between them is sure to reveal new perspectives that emerge where art and philosophy intersect. It will be an opportunity to rediscover the often overlooked moments of beauty and magic in everyday life, and to think deeply about what "re-enchantment" means in our society.
< Languages >
Japanese and French. With simultaneous Japanese-French interpretation.
< Application deadline >
10.29 Tue. 23:59
＊If the capacity is exceeded, we will stop accepting registrations.
＊If there are too many applications, a drawing will be held. Drawing results will be E-mailed by 11/1(Fri).
*The event may be changed or canceled due to unforeseen or unavoidable circumstances.
Yuko Hasegawa
Yuko Hasegawa is a curator, educator and writer based out of Tokyo. She currently holds positions as Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University of the Arts, Visiting Professor of Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Artistic Director of the Inujima Art House Project, and Program Director, Art and Design of the International House of Japan.
She was also Visiting Professor at the Department of Philosophy of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2023, and the Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo until 2021 where she curated solo exhibitions of Dumb Type, Olafur Eliasson and rhizomatiks among others.She has curated Japanese contemporary art and media and technology extensively both domestically and internationally. Her curatorial language is interdisciplinary, encompassing not simply art but also architecture, design, science and anthropology, and combined with global curating experience, allows her to view art as part of a single, holistic ecology.
Hasegawa has also curated, either solo or in a joint capacity, international art biennials including the 7th International Istanbul Biennial (2001), the Shanghai Biennale (2002), the 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010), the Sharjah Biennial 11 (2013), and the 7th Moscow Biennale (2017), Thailand Biennale, Korat (2021) and also served as art advisor to the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale (2010).She received the medal as Officier des Arts et des Lettres in 2024.
Emanuele Coccia
Emanuele Coccia is associate professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris since 2011.
He has been Visiting Professor at the universities of Buenos Aires, Columbia NY, Harvard, Munich, Venice, Tokyo and Weimar. He is the author of Sensible Life (2010), The Life of Plants (2018), Metamorphosis (2021) and Philosophy of the Home (2023). His books are translated into several languages.
He has written a photo-theory book with Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen (Modern Alchemy 2022) and participated in the making of and co-directed animation videos such as Quercus (2019, with Formafantasma), Heaven in Matter (2021, with Faye Formisano) and Portal of Mysteries (2022, with Dotdotdot).
He has written two plays together with Frédérique Aït Touati and Duncan Evenou (Earthscape 2022, Météores 2023). With François Roche he made a video installation called "La Chambre des mémoires à-veniré (2023). He has written a book with Paolo Roversi (Lettres sur la lumières, Gallimard 2024) and a book on the relationship between fashion and philosophy with Gucci’s former creative director Alessandro Michele (The Life of forms. Philosophy or Re-enchantment, 2024).
