Activity Report Session TEA+ vol.1 Talk with Liu Yu｜Anzai Tsuyoshi

Activity Report Session TEA+ vol.1 Talk with Liu Yu｜Anzai Tsuyoshi

The Graduate School of Global Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts is jointly running the exchange residency program “TEA+” in collaboration with the Taipei National University of the Arts. This session features an activity report session by the first group of exchanged artists. Each artist will discuss the research activities they conducted in Taipei and Tokyo, and how they plan their future artistic production. Anyone is welcome to attend, so please feel free to join us.

Date & Time: Friday, May 9, 2025, 4:20 PM - 5:50 PM
Venue: Community Salon, 3F Taki Plaza, Ueno Campus, Tokyo University of the Arts
Guests: Liu Yu (TNUA), Tsuyoshi Anzai (Tokyo Geidai)
Language: Japanese
Organized by: Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts

Registration: https://forms.gle/Ynb2Agz4eJpCyAmL6

Artist Profile:

Anzai Tsuyoshi

Tsuyoshi Anzai is a Japanese contemporary artist based in Chiba. He explores the interplay between human and non-human perspectives by working with ready-made plastic objects, including everyday items and waste. His work removes the original functions and meanings of these artificial objects, prompting viewers to reconsider their relationship with the material world. Anzai's kinetic sculptures, crafted from everyday items, move in unexpected ways, challenging the boundary between animate and inanimate. He also creates sculptures from plastic debris collected on beaches, imagining them as relics studied by non-human archaeologists in a distant future. His work has been exhibited at the Ludwig Museum (Budapest), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin).

Liu Yu

Born in 1985, Taiwan. Liu Yu is a visual artist whose creative mediums primarily consist of video and spatial installations. She developed a series of field studies of documentary nature as a kind of working methodology for her artistic practice, prompting her to reorganize interconnected narratives. Through integrating fragmented segments of space, history, imagery, and storytelling, she undertakes some integrative project that establishes close connections and supplements the narratives. Recent solo exhibitions include “Ladies” at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2023) and “If Narratives Become the Great Flood” at Hong Foundation/Project Seek (2020). The group shows include “Expeditionary Botanics” at Long March Space in Beijing (2024), The Brooklyn Rail Industry City in New York (2023), “Aqua Paradiso” at ACC in Gwangju (2022), “Asian Art Biennial: Phantasmapolis” at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2021).

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