AWT

TALKS

Discourse is an essential part of art infrastructure—and it is only enriched by broad participation. The AWT Talks program encompasses a symposium, a closed-door curators’ roundtable, and an online talks series, each charting different flows of local and global art discourse and addressing diverse audiences, from specialists to casual observers.

The AWT Talks Symposium invites leading thinkers from diverse backgrounds to discuss critical approaches to art and its place in contemporary society before a broad audience. What can art do? Why does it matter? And how does it translate across cultures and contexts?

This year’s symposium addresses the theme “Imagining Others: Transnational Visions of Contemporary Art,” with a keynote address by Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the 60th Venice Biennale.

Held in the historic Ex-Noguchi Room at Keio University’s Mita Campus, the closed-door AWT Talks Roundtable brings together Japanese and international curators for frank exchanges on urgent issues in contemporary art. Please note participation in the roundtable is by invitation only.

Art Week Tokyo’s popular online talks series invites artists, art historians, critics, and creators from other fields to produce lectures and discussions on overlooked currents in Japanese art and cultural history.