Global Art Practice, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
and Beaux-Arts de Paris
Global Art Joint Project 2019――
Paris Unit――
Term――
Guest lecturer

April―October 2019

Tokyo――
Project Supervision

Akira Kasai
Dancer, Choreographer
David Horvits
Visual Artist
Rully Shabara
SENYAWA musicain
dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta)
DJ, Curator

Tokyo University of the Arts

Nobuyuki Fujiwara
Professor, Global Art Practice,
Graduate School of Fine Arts
Yusaku Imamura
Professor, Global Art Practice,
Graduate School of Fine Arts
Beaux-Arts de Paris

Gwendoline Allain
International Relations,
Department of Studies――
Faculty
Tokyo University of the Arts

Yuko Mohri
Lecturer
Natsumi Araki
Associate Professor
Yoshinori Takakura
Project Assistant Professor
Hiroko Nakajima
Project Research AssistantClaire Fujita
Adjunct Education andResearch AssistantAyako Sakuragi
Project AssistantBeaux-Arts de Paris

Emmanuelle Huynh
Dance Studio, Professor
Pierre Alferi
Literature, Professor
Cynthia Lefebvre
Distinguished Assistant Professor
Mao Tao
Distinguished Assistant Professor
Félix Touzalin
Project assistant

ParisValérie Joly
Mezzo Soprano, Composer
Didier Semin
Art Historian――
Students
Tokyo University of the Arts

Naying Ching [China]
Sepideh Hashemi [Iran]Tomohiro Ishii [Japan]
Mika Jang [South Korea]
Motoyo Kawamura [Japan]
Clementine Nuttall [England]
Sofia Mirai Totoki [Japan/Spain]
Ryo Yamaguchi [Japan]
Masaki Yoshida [Japan]
Beaux-Arts de Paris

Carmen Alves [Brazil]
Béryl Coulombié [France]
Tetsu-ho Ichi [France]
Nicolas Keroulas [Scotland]
Cham Lavant [France]
Eun Sol Lee [South Korea]
Sacha Rey [France]
Kobas Verschuren [England / Netherlands]――
SupportAsian meeting festival 2019
LUPICIA
Bourjois

International Joint Project granted by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
through its Program for Enforcing the Function of National Universities

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Global Art Joint Project 2019

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Global Art Joint Project 2019

Paris Unit――
Project theme――
Project report

ART AS EXPERIMENTThe Global Art Joint Project 2019— a collaboration between Tokyo Universityof the Arts (TUA and Beaux-Arts de Paris (BAP— involved students from

Body and Sound

Japan and France travelling between these two countries, learning aboutsimilarities and differences in each other’s cultures through dialogue andArt is an experiment and schools are the most effective sites
for such experimentation. Providing a space that allows forconstant experimentation is one way to create a richenvironment to conceive new artworks. Schools have thepotential to become creative laboratories. This year, thecollaborative work. Under the project theme ‘ART AS EXPERIMENT Body andSound,’ students understood schools as places of experimentation, the visionand educational policies of both institutions intersected, and a joint course
was implemented that incorporated dance, performance, sound, andinstallation in a collaborative fashion, with the objective being the realizationof this collaboration as a final performance piece.

second year of the unit program working with this theme

This year, 17 students participated in this project, with nine from Global Art‘ART AS EXPERIMENT,’ further explored the theme ‘Body andPractice (GAP course, and eight from BAP. The selection was made with allSound,’ and a final presentation in Paris.

six GAP professors participating in the selection process, in consideration ofstudents’ expertise and motivation. Workshops were led by Professor
Emmanuelle Huynh (contemporary dancer and choreographer) and Lecturer
Yuko Mohri (visual artist), and lectures were given by Associate Professor
Natsumi Araki and Professor Pierre Alferi.
Lectures and workshops introducing this year’s theme ‘body’ and ‘sound,’were given as preliminary classes from April to June, 2019. This year inparticular, the preliminary classes provided a forum to discuss the course
themes before the beginning of the Joint Project, incorporating a theory classfrom Professor Pierre Alferi and an introductory class on experimental musicfrom DJ Sniff, a guest lecturer at the first session. The first session of the――
Timeline

Joint Project was held at TUA’s Toride Campus and Ueno Campus, and also
welcomed guest lecturers off-campus, such as at Denchu Hirakushi House

Pre-session (Tokyo,Toride)‖April 8 ― June 18and Atelier and Kitasenju BUoY. This year an interim presentation was also
held at the Ueno Campus (Chinretsukan Gallery) as a way to draw the first●April 8
Unit Program Guidance

session to a close. The second session (22 September-11 October) was heldat BAP in France, with students also participating in extracurricular classes
held at CND (Centre national de la danse, Pantin). The presentation of thisJoint Course: 1st session (Tokyo,Toride)‖July 1 ― July 22

year’s final piece took place in the form of a parade in the BAP campus,

July 22 ●Progress Presentation

Joint Course: 2nd session (Paris)‖September 22 ― October 11●October 10
Final Presentation

drawing close to 100 spectators throughout the 40 minutes performance.