IEA

Fellowship from October 2010 to March 2011

Research project: " Art and memory: the workshops, theoretical and practical vision "

Following numerous practical workshops at various international exhibitions, the idea in this research project is to look at the workshop as such, ie as an artistic practice in itself. At the edge of several disciplines, comprehensive, theoretical and practical study of workshops, particularly in Western Europe and France, will certainly give ample evidence on the relationship between collective memory and art, a subject on which I worked for many years.
By offering to study various workshops through town-planning, anthropology, law and history, IAS opens the possibility of approaching the subject from an angle that is not only artistic.

Biographical elements:

Chihiro Minato was born in 1960 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from Waseda University, School of Political Science and Economics, he was a 1982 recipient of the Gasei Scholarship from Argentina, which enabled him to travel throughout South America. From 1985 on, he based himself in Paris, where he has been active as an artist and critic. In 1995, he began teaching at Tama Art University, where he is currently a professor in the Department of Information Design. He was also one of the founding members of Art Anthropology Institute, Tama Art University, which was established in 2006. In 2002, he was invited as a visiting scholar by Wolfson College, Oxford University.