Symposium - Day 2

Saturday, April 26, 2025
McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)

9:30am Pastries and coffee

10:00am Session 1

Untangling and Reweaving Memories: “Genfūkei (Primal Landscape)” of Tomiyama Taeko
Sae Shimizu, Independent Curator

Echoes of Ecology: Tomiyama Taeko and Kim Ji-Ha at the Crossroads
Wonjun Kang, PhD Student, UC Irvine

Looking for Tomiyama Taeko: After Hiruko (2008), The Sorrows of War (2015), and Beginning of the End, End of the Beginning (2016)
Rebecca Jennison, Professor Emerita in Humanities, Kyoto Seika University

Followed by moderated Q&A

12:00pm Lunch Break

1:00pm Guided Tour of Tomiyama Taeko: A Tale of Sea Wanderers, AD&A Museum

2:00pm Session 2 - McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)

Transcultural Resonance: Tomiyama Taeko and Pacita Abad
Midori Yoshimoto, Professor of Art History and Gallery Director, New Jersey City University

Dancing Tomiyama’s Seascapes: An Oceanic Performance Politics
Katherine Mezur, Lecturer, UC Irvine

Oceanic Thought in the Art of Tomiyama Taeko and Some of Her Contemporaries in Japan
Bert Winther-Tamaki, Professor of Art History, UC Irvine

Followed by moderated Q&A

4:00pm Closing Remarks

Support for Cultural Flow: Ecology, Empire, and Myth in the Art of Tomiyama Taeko is generously provided by: