A Discussion with Sam Stoudze and Pascal Beausee moderated by Tetsuya Ozaki.
[Speaker]
Sam Stoudze – Director of Les Rencontres d’Arles)
Pascal Beausse – Head of Photographic Collections at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), Paris.
Tetsuya Ozaki – Publisher/Chief Editor at “REALTOKYO” and “REAL KYOTO”
[Venue]
Institut français du Japon
[Fee]
Free
[Reservation]
isabelle.olivier@institutfrancais.jp
Sam Stoudze
SAM STOURDZE is the director of Les Rencontres d’Arles Photography Festival.
A specialist of images, his research focuses on the contexts of their production, distribution and reception. He has studied for many years the mechanisms involved in the circulation of images, concentrating on the ties linking photography, art and cinema.
He organized a number of international exhibitions as an independent curator and published several books, notably Le Cliché-Verre de Corot à Man Ray, the retrospectives of Dorothea Lange and Tina Modotti, Chaplin et les images, Fellini, La Grande parade, or recently, Derrière le rideau – L’Esthétique Photomaton. Stourdzé received a fellowship from the Villa Medicis – French Academy in Rome. He was the director the Musée de l’Elysée and editor in chief of the Magazine ELSE from 2010 to 2014.
Pascal Beausse
An Art Critic and a Curator, Pascal Beausse is currently the Head of Photographic Collections at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP) in Paris. He is also Guest Professor at the Geneva University of Arts and Design (HEAD).
He is a member of the editorial committee of the art journal Critique d’art, and contributed to magazines such as Art Press, Blocnotes and Flash Art. He has published essays, articles, interviews and catalogues on the work of Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham, Teresa Margolles, Allan Sekula, Bruno Serralongue, Cécile Hartmann and Wang Du, among others.
Recent exhibitions curated by Pascal Beausse include La Cabane (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2006); Welcome to Heterotopia!! (Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Tokamachi, 2006); Void Has No Exit (Creative Union, Hiroshima, 2008); Numero Tres (La Virreina – centre de la imatge, Barcelona, 2012), Documents pour une information alternative (Rencontres d’Arles, 2012), Knowledge is Power (PhotoEspaña, Madrid, 2013), The Secret Sea (Onomichi City Museum of Art, Onomichi, 2013), among others.
Pascal Beausse was a resident at Villa Kujoyama in 2007.
Tetsuya Ozaki
Born in Tokyo in 1955. Publisher and chief editor of culture web magazines “Realtokyo” (www.realtokyo.co.jp) and “Realkyoto” (www.realkyoto.jp). Former publisher and chief editor of a bilingual contemporary art magazine “ART iT” (www.art-it.asia) which aims to cover the Japanese and Asian-Pacific art scenes. He was involved in the establishment of a culture magazine “03 Tokyo Calling” as deputy chief editor in 1989, was in charge of editorial direction of the Japan pavilion “Sensorium” of Internet World Expo in 1996 and the theme magazine “Cou-cou no chi” of Aichi World Expo 2005. He founded “Realtokyo” in 1999, “ART iT” in 2003, and “Realkyoto” in 2007. Among his productions are a CD-ROM book “Multimedia Kabuki” and “One Hundred Years of Idiocy,” a photography book with contributions by anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, author Ikezawa Natsuki, movie director Abbas Kiarostami and others. He left the ART iT company in 2010, and became General Producer of performing arts section, Aichi Triennale 2013. He wrote and published a photo book “One Hundred Years of Lunacy” in 2014 and currently is a guest researcher, Academic Research Center, Kyoto University of Art and Design.