Exhibiting the Return to terroir

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_1077
dc.contributor.author	Machotka Ewa
dc.title	Exhibiting the Return to terroir. Art and the Politics of Nature in Post-Bubble Japan
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	In his seminal work on landscape David Cosgrove observed that ‘nature’ as a socio-cultural construct has always functioned as one of the favorite focuses of cultures when humanity is in crisis. Taking this thesis as a theoretical point of departure, this study explores a contemporary art exhibition Sensing Nature: Yoshioka Tokujin, Shinoda Tarō, Kuribayashi Takashi. Rethinking the Japanese Perception of Nature, staged in 2010 at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. The study investigates the strategies used in contemporary exhibiting practices to establish alternative sources of collective identification, and the role of the notion of ‘nature’ in these processes. It explores the recent shift from the perception of the world as the globe into the national terroir as discussed by Bruno Latour and exposed in the conceptual design of Sensing Nature, which returns to the nation-specific notion of “the Japanese perception of nature”. This maneuver demonstrates both the role of art in building social and ecological resilience; and the ambivalent potential of culture in the politics of nature.
dc.relation.ispartof	Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Arts and Literature
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2018-11-07
dc.dateAccepted	2016-11-12
dc.dateSubmitted	2016-09-24
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-289-5/exhibiting-the-return-to-terroir/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-264-2/007
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8976
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9395
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-289-5
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-264-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Art
dc.subject	Art
dc.subject	Exhibition
dc.subject	Exhibition
dc.subject	Japan
dc.subject	Japan
dc.subject	Nature
dc.subject	Nature
dc.subject	Post-bubble
dc.subject	Post-bubble
dc.subject	Resilience
dc.subject	Resilience

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Exhibiting the Return to terroir

Art and the Politics of Nature in Post-Bubble Japan

Ewa Machotka

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abstract

In his seminal work on landscape David Cosgrove observed that ‘nature’ as a socio-cultural construct has always functioned as one of the favorite focuses of cultures when humanity is in crisis. Taking this thesis as a theoretical point of departure, this study explores a contemporary art exhibition Sensing Nature: Yoshioka Tokujin, Shinoda Tarō, Kuribayashi Takashi. Rethinking the Japanese Perception of Nature, staged in 2010 at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. The study investigates the strategies used in contemporary exhibiting practices to establish alternative sources of collective identification, and the role of the notion of ‘nature’ in these processes. It explores the recent shift from the perception of the world as the globe into the national terroir as discussed by Bruno Latour and exposed in the conceptual design of Sensing Nature, which returns to the nation-specific notion of “the Japanese perception of nature”. This maneuver demonstrates both the role of art in building social and ecological resilience; and the ambivalent potential of culture in the politics of nature.

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Nov. 7, 2018

Accepted

Nov. 12, 2016

Submitted

Sept. 24, 2016

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978-88-6969-289-5

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978-88-6969-264-2

Keywords: Exhibition • Japan • Resilience • Art • Post-bubble • Nature

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