Teaching Staff (Arts & Roots)

Title	Associate Professor
Research Fields	Art anthropology / Mythology
Education	2010 Doctoral course (Policy Studies – completed without degree), Chuo University, Tokyo 2002 Master’s (Policy Studies), Chuo University 1997 Bachelor’s (International Relations), Asia University, Tokyo
Selected Professional Experience	2013-Present Lecturer (2013-2017); Associate Professor (2017-Present), Akita University of Art 2011-Present Researcher, Institut pour la Science Sauvage, Meiji University
Recent Activities	<Selected Essays> 2021 Shishi no niku o kui, shishi no hara kara umareru: Juto-geino ni miru fukusushu no sozoryoku [They eat the flesh of beasts, and are born from the bellies of lions: The imaginative power behind theriocephalic art]. Tagui [Variety] Vol.3. Aki Shobo 2020 Yokai suru chikyu to kansensho-jidai no dobutsu-tachi [The melting Earth and animal life in the age of pandemics]. Bijutsu techo [Art Diary] Vol.72, 2020.06. Bijutsu Shuppan-sha What emerges beyond repetition and noise. Masaru Iwai Works 01. Read Only A calling from the invisible history. Rock, Paper, Scissors: K is for Kayashima. Artspeak A calling from the invisible history. Rock, Paper, Scissors: K is for Kayashima. Artspeak Daichi no mono-tachi no jujutsu: Tatsuki Masaru shashinshu ‘KAKERA’ o megutte [The magic of the things of the earth: On Masaru Tatsuki’s photo collection ‘KAKERA’]. KAKERA [Fragments]. T&M Projects ‘Uchu no tamago’ to kyoitai no seisei: Dai 58-kai Venechia Biennaare Kokusai Bijutsuten Nihon-kan tenji yori [‘Cosmo-Eggs’ and the creation of coexistence: From the Japanese Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition]. Tagui [Variety] Vol.2. Aki Shobo Saibogu, fukusushu, taihitai: Dana Harawei ni yoru kontakuto zon no kakucho [Cyborg, multispecies, compost: Donna Haraway and the expansion of contact zones]. Bijutsu techo [Art Diary] Vol.72, 2020.02, pp. 148-151. Bijutsu Shuppan-sha 2018 Fukusushu sekai de taberu koto: Watashi-tachi wa ichido mo tandokushu de wa nakatta [Eating in a multispecies world: We were never a single species]. Tagui [Variety] Vol.1. Aki Shobo Ato to jinruigaku no chikaku hendo [Upheavals in art and anthorpology]. Bijutsu techo [Art Diary] Vol. 70, 2018.6, pp. 100-107. Bijutsu Shuppan-sha 2017 Kashokusei no sohatsu: Tsukiji Ichiba to shoku no jinruigaku [Emergence of edibility: Tsukiji Market and food anthropology]. Gendai shiso [Modern Thought] Vol.45(13), 2017.7 Sotokushu: Tsukiji Ichiba [Special Issue: Tsukiji Market], pp. 235-253. Seidosha Shakai no uchinaru yasei: Uchuron no kyokai o koshin suru inu to okami [The inner wild of society: The new cosmological borders of dog and wolf]. Gendai shiso [Modern Thought] Vol.45(4), 2017.3 Sotokushu: Jinruigaku no jidai [Special Issue: Age of Anthropology], pp. 209-227. Seidosha 2016 Kyo no jinruigaku chizu: Revi-Sutorosu kara ‘sonzairon no jinruigaku’ made [Atlas of modern anthropology: From Levi-Strauss to the ontological turn]. Gendai shiso [Modern Thought] 2016.3 rinji zokan-go [Special Issue], pp. 311-325. Seidosha 2015 Yamaguchi Mikako-cho ‘Herajika no okurimono – Hoppo shuryomin Kasuka to dobutsu no shizen-shi’ [Mikako Yamaguchi’s ‘Gift of/in the moose: Natural history of northern hunter Kaska and animals’]. Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology 79(4), pp. 492-495. Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology 2014 Tsuki to korunukopia: Shukisei hyogen no kigen nit suite [Moon and cornucopia: The origins of expressions of periodicity]. Akita University of Art Faculty Research Bulletin 2013, pp. 21-33. Akita University of Art    <Author / Contributor> 2020 ‘Cosmo-Eggs’ at Venice Biennale 2019: Toward the collaboration between arts and anthropology (with YOSHIDA Kenji, SHITAMICHI Motoyuki, KAWASE Itsushi, NAKAMURA Fumiko, OKADA Hiroshige). Journal of Society for Arts and Anthropology 36, pp. 56-102. Society for Arts and Anthropology Uchu no tamago: Korekutibu igo no ato [‘Cosmo-Eggs’: Art After the Collective] (with SHITAMICHI Motoyuki, YASUNO Taro, NOSAKI Fuminori, HATTORI Hiroyuki). Torch Press ‘Cosmo-Eggs’ (with SHITAMICHI Motoyuki, YASUNO Taro, NOSAKU Fuminori, HATTORI Hiroyuki). LIXIL 2019 The Ecology of Expression: Remaking Our Relations with the World (with SHIRAKAWA Yoshio, YAMADA Sohei, IMAI Tomo, YOSHIDA Emi). Sayusha 2016 ‘Ningen no mukogawa’ e [Towards ‘The other side of human’]. Dobutsu no kotoba: kongenteki boryoku o koete [The Language of Animals: Beyond Primordial Violence] (KONOIKE Tomoko, ed.). Hatori Shoten 2015 Yasei meguri: Retto shinwa no genryu ni fureru 12 no tabi [Wild Pilgrimage: 12 Voyages Tracing the Myths of the Japanese Islands] (with MASARU Tatsuki). Tankosha 2013 ‘Seikatsu kogei’ no jidai [The Age of ‘Life Craft’] (with MITANI Ryuji). Shinchosha    <Exhibitions / Presentations> 2020 Masumi Sugae project (group exhibition, with KARASAWA Taisuke). Arts & Routes – A Journey to Trace the Boundaries. Akita Museum of Modern Art, Yokote City, Akita ‘Kigen to taiwa: Moku, ka, do, kin, sui’ no tame ni [For ‘Origin and dialogue / wood, fire, earth, metal, water‘] (group exhibition, with OKOJIMA Maki). Origin and Dialogue / Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water. Misato Town Student Association Hall, Misato Town, Akita Mogaumi e terogurafi [Terrography for Mogaumi] (group exhibition, with OBANA Ken’ichi). Yamagata Biennale 2020: Shape of Mountains, Shape of Life. Tohoku University of Art and Design Cosmo-Eggs (with SHITAMICHI Motoyuki, YASUNO Taro, NOSAKU Fuminori, HATTORI Hiroyuki). Exhibition in Japan of the Japan Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. Artizon Museum, Tokyo 2019 Sesshoku kara kyoshin e [From contact to resonance]. Spirit of ‘North’ Vol.10: Sensing Faint Resonances. Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland Akagiyama riminariti [Akagiyama liminallity] (group exhibition, with OBANA Ken’ichi). The Ecology of Expression: Remaking Our Relations with the World. Arts Maebashi, Gunma Cosmo-Eggs (with SHITAMICHI Motoyuki, YASUNO Taro, NOSAKU Fuminori, HATTORI Hiroyuki). 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy 2017 Furuki Tohoku no kakera o tamote [Protect the fragments of old Tohoku] (group exhibition, with TATSUKI Masaru). Spirit of ‘North’ Vol.7: Sensing Faint Resonances: Tokyo. Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum 2016 Tohoku ni ikiru zokei shiko [The art and design mentality of the Tohoku region] (keynote speech). Japan Society of Basic Design and Art, Akita Conference 2016 2014 Homo edensu: Kashokusei no jinruigaku [Homo edens: The anthropology of edibility] (seminar presentation). Institut pour la Science Sauvage, Meiji University4 Tohoku no shizen ni nezashita geijutsu [Art rooted in the nature of Tohoku] (commemorative speech). 29th National Cultural Festival: Akita 2014    <Other> 2017 Curator, r:ead #5 (research program). Hong Kong
Courses Taught	Life and Culture in the Tohoku Region Cultural Anthropology Advanced Cultural Anthropology Contemporary Art Seminar (Arts & Roots) Introduction to Arts & Roots Arts & Roots Seminar Art Project Project Planning and Presentation Graduation Project (Arts & Roots) (Graduate School of Transdisciplinary Arts) Transdisciplinary Arts Theory Applied Transdisciplinary Arts Theory C Transdisciplinary Arts Seminar Transdisciplinary Arts Research: Theory I, II Guided Research I, II, III (Doctoral Program)

 

Example Works
Fieldwork (Mushi-okuri [ceremony for driving away crop-eating insects], Tsugaru Peninsula, Aomori)	Fieldwork (Shishi-odori [deer dance], Kitakami Mountains, Iwate)	Various publications

Further details (in Japanese) can be found at the following link: ISHIKURA Toshiaki (Japanese page)