The Aesthetics of Emptiness
Voids, Fullness, Sounds, Silences, Presences, Absences
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abstract
This volume follows the International Festival Japan Contemporary Arts in Venice The Aesthetics of Emptiness, organised between 21 and 24 February 2022 by Benedetto Marcello Music Conservatory in Venice, the Department of Asian and North African Studies of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and Venice Academy of Fine Arts (institutions united in the Study in Venice project), with the generous support of the Japan Foundation. During the Festival, musical performances, concerts, workshops, meetings with Japanese artists, and conferences led participants to immerse themselves in Japanese arts and culture. The structure of the volume is designed to allow the reader to relive these experiences, also through multimedia content, and to explore some of the themes that emerged. The first section is dedicated to the events curated by Benedetto Marcello Music Conservatory and Venice Academy of Fine Arts, while the second brings together some of the contributions presented during the conference organised by the Department of Asian and North African Studies. The various essays revolve around the themes of sound, silence, emptiness, fullness, presence, and absence, and are dedicated to the memory of Bonaventura Ruperti.
Calligraphy • Zen • Soundtrack • Noh theater • Calligraphy-painting • Etude III • Bushi • Japanese mouth organ • Zeami Motokiyo • Estetica del vuoto • Japanese film music • Auto-orientalismo • Lost decades • Medieval Japan • Synaesthesia • Edogawa Ranpo • Architecture and emptiness • Cinema • Ma • AKA Serial Killer • Noh music • Japan aesthetics • Akutagawa Ryūnosuke • Mori Mariko • Silence and sound • Youth • Greek lullaby Κοιμήσου καί παρήγγειλα • Japanese modernism • Music composition and childhood memory • Tanizaki Jun’ichirō • Emptiness • Oguri Kōhei • Documentary • Toshio Hosokawa • Aesthetics • Film genres • Japanese cinema • Japanese ink painting (sumie) • Fūkeiron • Hosokawa • Japanese art • Adachi Masao • Aesthetic of Emptiness • Shō • Japanese literature • Suzuki Daisetsu • Buddhism • Governmentality • Lettera alla madre • Japanese music • Hagiwara Sakutarō