TriennialJuly 31, 2020
Yokohama Triennial 2020
The Yokohama Triennial 2020 is held from July 17 to October 11, 2020, under the Artistic Direction of the RaqsMedia Collective. Entitled Afterglow – a luminous interval, shining anticipation, a flickering flux, an energy-charged current between tangles of presence and becoming – the event consists of both an exhibition and Episōdos, a series of events that seek to expand the notion of an art event, freeing it from geographic, temporal, and expression restrictions. More than 60 artists and collectives from more than 30 countries and regions will participate. As a guide, RaqsMedia Collective has shared their Sourcebook, a reference book to expand their views and visions of the world at large.
"We started our own journey, which led us to this edition of the Yokohama Triennial, about two years ago, with questions about care, about care regarding toxicity, about care and friendship, about the luminosity within the friendship, and about the luminescence cosmologies (…) Meanwhile, in the course of a few months, a small virus, an inanimate being emerged, knocking down assumptions and assigning tasks to everyone. For the first time in human history, we, all the billions from all parts of the world, must undertake, conscious of each other, the reconstruction of our ways of life. This has brought to the fore the need to re-apprehend the globe. (…)
"In 2020, the world has faced an unprecedented challenge in the spread of the new coronavirus. In the art field, we have long believed that there is a fundamental value in visiting exhibitions in person, seeing and experiencing works of art live, and also sharing those experiences and joys with others. This year we have faced a significant challenge since these premises have been undermined," point out OSAKA Eriko and KURAYA Mika, from the YT Organizing Committee. Then continue: "It is under these circumstances we present the Yokohama 2020 Triennial "Afterglow," the seventh edition of this event and one of the first biennials and triennials in the world to be opened in today's environment. It is full of ideas that today, more than ever, we must gather to think."
The Colombian curator Inti Guerrero, who currently lives and works in Hong Kong, will be in charge of the curatorship of Episōdo 4. An exhibition of works from the Yokohama Art Museum collection embodies personal microcosms of affection and desire found and interconnected to each other across different contexts of geographic dominance in the Asia Pacific region. Among the artists are ISHIKAWA Mao, ISHIUCHI Miyako, Paul JACOULET, Kathy JETÑIL-KIJINER (with Dan LIN), Eisa JOCSON, Cristina LUCAS, TANAKA Atsuko, and Wilhelm VON GLOEDEN.
For more information, visit: https://www.yokohamatriennale.jp/english/2020/
"We started our own journey, which led us to this edition of the Yokohama Triennial, about two years ago, with questions about care, about care regarding toxicity, about care and friendship, about the luminosity within the friendship, and about the luminescence cosmologies (…) Meanwhile, in the course of a few months, a small virus, an inanimate being emerged, knocking down assumptions and assigning tasks to everyone. For the first time in human history, we, all the billions from all parts of the world, must undertake, conscious of each other, the reconstruction of our ways of life. This has brought to the fore the need to re-apprehend the globe. (…)
"In 2020, the world has faced an unprecedented challenge in the spread of the new coronavirus. In the art field, we have long believed that there is a fundamental value in visiting exhibitions in person, seeing and experiencing works of art live, and also sharing those experiences and joys with others. This year we have faced a significant challenge since these premises have been undermined," point out OSAKA Eriko and KURAYA Mika, from the YT Organizing Committee. Then continue: "It is under these circumstances we present the Yokohama 2020 Triennial "Afterglow," the seventh edition of this event and one of the first biennials and triennials in the world to be opened in today's environment. It is full of ideas that today, more than ever, we must gather to think."
The Colombian curator Inti Guerrero, who currently lives and works in Hong Kong, will be in charge of the curatorship of Episōdo 4. An exhibition of works from the Yokohama Art Museum collection embodies personal microcosms of affection and desire found and interconnected to each other across different contexts of geographic dominance in the Asia Pacific region. Among the artists are ISHIKAWA Mao, ISHIUCHI Miyako, Paul JACOULET, Kathy JETÑIL-KIJINER (with Dan LIN), Eisa JOCSON, Cristina LUCAS, TANAKA Atsuko, and Wilhelm VON GLOEDEN.
For more information, visit: https://www.yokohamatriennale.jp/english/2020/
