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Contemporary Art Lab
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A lab that looks at the histories and stories hidden in places through contemporary art.
AboutAbout the lab
Turning the hidden histories and stories of places into artworks
Working in contemporary art and taking the histories and stories hidden in specific places as a theme, Assistant Professor Naho Yokoya conducts research in places in Japan and abroad, and creates and presents artworks based on that research.
The research is carried out in diverse formats regardless of medium, such as interviews and video recording.
The lab also actively engages in collaborative work with researchers in other fields such as history, biology, and cultural anthropology, as well as in community projects.
Key terms
- Contemporary art
- A field of art in which works are made through crossing genres and collaborating with other disciplines
- Cultural anthropology
- The study of human cultures and societies. It is one of the fields of collaborators in joint projects across disciplines
ResearchResearch themes
Based in contemporary art, the lab envisions the future from the past and gives it form through creation, research, and activities. Taking the histories and stories hidden in specific places as its theme, it creates and presents works based on research in places in Japan and abroad.
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- Assistant ProfessorNaho Yokoya
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Frederic Edwin Church - Aurora Borealis - Google Art Project” Frederic Edwin Church / Public domain (cropped)
- Looking at Vanishing Histories through Art: “Mitsubishi power plant coal mine ruins Nagasaki” Akiyoshi's Room / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Contemporary Art Lab): “Verbier 3-D Art Installation by Gregory Coates Art at Verbier 3-D Sculpture Park 2011” Gregory Coates / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Contemporary Art Lab): “Tanya Preminger- "Hollow place". Land art, Denmark” עודד.ש / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Contemporary Art (Hitoshi Kuriyama) Lab): “Bernd Wehner working cardboard sculpture 2018” Exhilar8 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Green Space Conservation Lab): “Oak woodland after the CCC’s cut down encroaching conifers ( )” USFWS Pacific Southwest Region / Public domain (cropped)
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