"What's the Department of APS Art Research & Art Produce?"

Art research
APS aims to train those who become special researchers thorough careful interviews and presentation-type classes since the freshman year, and small-group seminars under teachers' guidance from the junior year.

Art Produce
ASP invites Mr. Hideki Toyoshima (Osaka graf), Ms. Chieko Kinoshita (Kobe Art Village Center) and Ms. Megumi Matsuo (Kyoto Voicegallery, Kyoto Biennale), and students can study practically by participating in Kyoto Biennale or Echigo-Tsumari Biennale as volunteers. APS has special lectures by artists or active curators.

Art workshop
Both in and outside class, APS prepares the workshop programs where we can feel "art" by working collaboratively with artists, the opportunities to participate in exhibitions, and talk events by the artists who are at the top of arts, so as to stimulate students. The questionnaire results of events and etc. are on the Web as "student's voice".

Planning of Art Project
ASP supports those who have planed projects independently and worked in the projects since school. For example, now, APS supports "artpark project" which assists artists' activities. The project we will make free paper introducing various artistsand events both in and outside school is also in progress. APS supports students positively with various technical assignments, advice for ideas, management assistance and etc.

Essay on Modern art, especially, editorial creative direction, art produce and photography

I have performed industry promotion on the theme of "the earth environment and imaginative power" as a member of the creative group "code" with Mr. Ryuuichi Sakamoto, who is a musician, and others. The creative group is called "code-re.com". And while trying to create new cultural space as a program director of SHISEIDO WORD and a committee member of KPO KIRIN Plaza Osaka, I participate in an incubation program for next generation creators as a director of A.I..I(NPO), which aims to be Akihabara IT center. On April 2003, I became the head teacher of the Department of Art and Culture in the Kyoto University of Arts and Designs. And now, I emphasize on nurturing the talented people who lead art produce.

Art physiology is composed of three things, finding a new viewpoint of "human body" from the standpoint of life theory or philosophy, building new relationship between art and medical & welfare from the standpoint of psychology or psychiatry, and pursuing the possibility of criticism for body expression from the standpoint of dancing theory or art history. I get broadly involved in body art and body expression through art criticism, art therapy and dancing like kabuki, while focusing on such art physiological thought.

I am a part-time instructor of Guggenheim Museum after an intern of the New York Museum of Modern Art. And I am also only Japanese independent curator in the United States. I planned many retrospective exhibitions, such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman and the Keith Haring, both in Japan and in the U.S. I am also known as an introducer of Alicia Arenas. I have been chosen as a guest curator of the photograph festival "Foto Espania" in Spain for past two years. And I introduced Japanese artists, such as Nobuo Araki or Miwa Yanagi last year, and will held the Philip-Lorca diCorcia exhibition this year.

From the late 80s, I began to criticize arts, write and remark thorough various media. While studying about Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke and Mike Kelly, I teach at art schools in Tokyo and Kyoto and work as the director of Mori art museum. Recently, I am interested in the art of the after 90s, especially the trend of expression using the image. In Kyoto University of Art and Design, the lesson using the videos I recorded is performed as a guide to modern art developing globally.