Kuroda Raiji
is participant at
A New Geography of Art in the Making
Abstract
Re-Turn to Nowhere: Asian Art Exhibitions in a Local City
This year is the tenth anniversary of Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, which focuses on modern and contemporary art of the Asian region. Despite international recognition of FAAM’s mission, collection, residence programs and three Fukuoka Triennales materialized in the past ten years, the domestic and local support to FAAM as an art museum is not very stable, and the polemical nature of the museum has not changed, even after the success of several Asian artists in the international art world. I will discuss the background of this situation on three levels: 1) the concept of ‘Asia’ and ‘art’ in Japan, 2) the recent intitutional crisis of Japanese museums, and 3) the problems of culture in local cities as part of so-called globalization.
