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Judith Seng - Activation 1: A kind of tea ceremony hosted by Mai Ueda

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Judith Seng - Activation 1 in the exhibition "The Point in Front Is Not the Point in Front Is Not"

As special guest, Mai Ueda will host an interpretation of a traditional Japanese tea ceremony within the installation. If you want to participate, please sign up via e-mail (See Tickets/Apply below).

Exhibition:
The Point in Front Is Not the Point in Front Is Not
Date / Term
July 14th [Fri.]
13:00 -
14:00 -
15:00 -
*Approx. 45 min for each session
*Max. 10 people per session
Venue
Kyoto Art Center Gallery North, Kyoto Art Center
Artist
Judith Seng, Mai Ueda (Chartist)

Judith Seng

Judith Seng is an artist and designer based in Berlin, Germany. Her work investigates socio-material practices found in daily life in transition and relation to the ceremonial and performative realm. Her work is presented in contexts spanning exhibitions and performances applying to daily life, as well as academic contexts. Her projects have been exhibited at institutions throughout the world, including Art Centre Seoul, Carousel du Louvre Paris, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung Bonn, Museum der Dinge Berlin, MARTa Herford, Appel Design Gallery Berlin, Post Design Gallery Milan, Neumeister in Munich, and Helmrinderknecht Berlin. Her work can be found in the collections of the Fonds National d`Art Contemporain (FNAC) (2002/2010) and Centre National des Arts Plastique (CNAP) in France (2012), and Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden in Germany (2014). As Fellow of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at University of the Arts Berlin (2010-2012), she initiated the ongoing performative installation series ACTING THINGS that was staged, among others, at Hebbel Theater (HAU) in Berlin, Germany (2011), Depot Basel in Switzerland (2012), and commissioned by Design Miami/ Basel in Switzerland (2013) as well as Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden (2014). In 2016, she was artist in residence at Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, Japan. Currently, she is guest professor in design at HDK - Academy of Design and Craft in Gothenborg, Sweden.
http://www.judithseng.de/

Mai Ueda

Mai Ueda is an uncompromising artist-as-human. She cherishes art as life, and life as art. Her message is to encourage people to feel for themselves. Having co-founded NEEN, an art movement which concerned itself with the poetic potential of internet and technology in 2000, she has worked across platforms of internet, performance, drawing, poetry and installation, finding herself most comfortable with non-material mediums. Since 2012 Ueda rediscovered her Japanese roots through zen and the tradition of the Tea Ceremony, has made it the core of her practice. A Tea Ceremony brings together people to share knowledge and emotions. It creates awareness to enjoy the moment. Ueda uses the traditions of a Japanese Tea Ceremony for reflection upon globalization which is increasingly a westernization. She has exhibited in museums and institutions around the world, including; Seoul Biennial 2004; Venice Biennale 2009, MACRO Rome 2012, MONA Tasmania 2013 and Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2014. There has been several publications dedicated to Mai Ueda's poetry, drawings and songs.
(by Ché Zara Blomfield October 2014)
http://maiueda.com/

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Contact

Kyoto Art Center
TEL: +81-(0)75-213-1000
E-mail: info@kac.or.jp

Admission

1000 yen

Tickets/Apply

If you want to participate, please sign up beforehand.
E-email: toma@kac.or.jp

Please inform us:
- your name
- desired session
(13:00 / 14:00 / 15:00)
- number of participants.

Sponsorship

Organizer: Kyoto Art Center
Curatorial Coordination: Higashiyama Artists Placement Service (HAPS)
Support: Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa / Textile: Kvadrat

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