June 15 (Sun), 2025 14:00-16:00
The Exhibiton “NEW Days” Related Event
Guest Talk by Kei Hirakura「Perception, Underground, Newness」
Date: 6/15 (Sun) 14:00-16:00
Capacity: First 50 people (Not required for advance reservation )
Admission: Free (exhibition admission fee will be charged)
We will invite Kei Hirakura, Associate Professor of Yokohama National University Graduate School, to give a talk and explore the meaning of ‘newness’.
※Please note that these events will be recorded with videos and pictures and made available to the public at a later date.
Guest Profile
Kei Hirakura (Associate Professor at Yokohama National University, Art Scholar)
Born in 1977. Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Urban Innovation (Y-GSC), Yokohama National University. Visiting Researcher at Victoria University of Wellington (2023–2024). His research focuses on art as a form of thinking extended beyond the biological body. In recent years, he has shown a growing interest in the expressivity of non-human living beings.
His publications include Form Thinks: An Analysis of Artistic Production (University of Tokyo Press, 2019), and The Godard Method (Inscript, 2010), which won the 2nd Annual Award from the Association for Studies of Culture and Representation.
His works include Decomposing Picasso, (Extended and Embedded Version) (blanClass, 2014), among others.
