Socially Engaged Art in Pacific Islands

这项研究导致了十个展览和四个出版作品的原创艺术作品的制作。还在福冈、东京和冲绳举办了四个艺术家、策展人和学者公共论坛，以反思亚太地区社会参与艺术的新方向。在冲绳，作为日本和太平洋岛屿之间的结缔组织，对冲绳海域进行了研究。这项研究的成果被展示在两个展览的艺术品海洋出生：第一部分在长野海出生：第一部分(天久艺术节2017年9月20日至10月29日)，下一次在冲绳海洋出生：第二部分(Ichihanari艺术节2017年11月18日至12月2日)。这一艺术作品与其他有关冲绳精神的艺术观点在同行评议的学术论文《津岛的精神：与岛民的创造性故事讲述》中得到了反映。这篇论文即将发表在学术期刊《岛：岛屿文化研究的国际杂志》上。这项研究的主要目的是为该领域中社会参与的艺术作品的意义的学术辩论做出贡献。由于在以欧洲为中心的辩论中没有亚太地区的观点，因此组织了研讨会、艺术家讲习班、艺术品展览和公开讲座，以扩大对当今社会参与的艺术的看法。在获得奖学金后，这些活动将以多种方式继续进行，其中最值得注意的是我的新作品博物馆个展，题为《莫洛凯之窗》(火奴鲁鲁艺术博物馆，2018年4月26日至9月15日)。

This research led to the production of original artworks for ten exhibitions and four published writings. Four public forums for artists, curators and scholars were also organized to reflect on new directions in socially engaged art in Asia Pacific held in Fukuoka, Tokyo and Okinawa.In Okinawa, research was conducted on maritime space in Okinawa as a connective tissue between islands in Japan and the Pacific. The results of this research were presented in the artwork Sea Birth for two exhibitions, the first held in Nagano Sea Birth: part one (TENKU Art Festival 20 September 20- 29 October 2017) and the next in Okinawa Sea Birth: part two (Ichihanari Art Festival 18 November- 2 December 2017). This artwork production is reflected upon in relation to other artistic perspectives on spirits in Okinawa for the peer-reviewed academic essay "Spirits of Tsureshima: Creative Storytelling with Islanders" that will soon be published in the academic journal, Shima: the international journal of research into island cultures.The chief aim of this research is to contribute to scholarly debates on the meaning of socially engaged artworks in the field. Because perspectives from Asia Pacific in Eurocentric debates were absent, symposia, artist workshops, exhibitions of artwork and public lectures were organized in order to expand perspectives on socially engaged art today. These activities will continue after the fellowship in many ways, one of the most noteworthy is the solo museum exhibition of my new works titled, Molokai Window (Honolulu Museum of Art, 26 April- 15 September 2018).