The 2022 edition of Okayama Art Summit, curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija, will bring together artists Abraham Cruzvillegas, Wang Bing and Haegue Yang amongst many others. Held in Okayama City once every three years, the Okayama Art Summit is an international exhibition of contemporary art which brings the artistic touch to various historical and cultural sites near Okayama Castle and Okayama Korakuen Garden.
Abraham Cruzvillegas will present a performance entitled Three times three triangles together and the work Untitled calligraphy contest at Tenjinyama Cultural Plaza, as well as two recent works, H2O and Kami No Michi at The Okayama Shrine.
Some of the most significant films by Wang Bing, with for instance, Man With No Name and 15 Hours can be seen at the Hayashibara Museum.
Haegue Yang’s new sculpture will be on show in Ishiyama Park, two works from the Mesmerizing Mesh series at Saijō Inari, and Sonic Cosmic Rope – Gold Dodecagon Straight at the Okayama Orient Museum.
"[...] I like the potential of the next Okayama Art Summit to be focused on peripheral practices by artists whom may share in common their itinerant backgrounds. In itinerant, I mean that most of the artists in this selection are coming from cultural and social back grounds that is diverse. Though they may have their practices and their locations in the center of western artistic hegemony, we could understand that their positioning in that ( western ) hegemony, is based on their identification with positions other than western. That their lives and histories are constructed, in difference, to the west." — Rirkrit Tiravanija, Artistic Director, Okayama Art Summit 2022.
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