2021 Front Page

Guest Artists

Shiro Masuyama

This is the Itoshima Arts Farm 2020 that we were not able to hold last year. Under the theme “Human Scale”, we announced our statement “from our human-sized selves to all the adjacent lands, artists unfold their own expression”.

However, the world was shut down by a pandemic and the 2020 festival was postponed. Looking back at that statement, we wonder if we have become more timid about things such as knowing ourselves and others and starting a conversation, in this world where communication has switched from face-to-face to online, opportunities for expression have been lost, and a divide has appeared with regard of what is fact and what is fiction.

For Itoshima Arts Farm 2021 we would like to keep looking into our human scale, the scale of those of us who experienced (or are experiencing) social distancing. We aim for a world where everyone respects each other’s human scale and lifestyle.

Speakers

Maho Isono

Independent anthropologist. Her specialities are cultural anthropology and medical anthropology. Literature PhD. Isono went independent in 2020 after being a research associate at Waseda University’s School of Culture, Media and Society, and an associate professor at International University of Health and Welfare’s Graduate School. She has done workshops with “Karada-no-Schule” (an organisation that cares about the connection of body and society), as well as book discussion clubs, and an online anthropology course with Filtr (an online school of humanities exploring new possibilities for learning). Her publications include “Naze futsū ni taberarenainoka: kyoshoku to kashoku no bunka jinruigaku” (Shunjusha), “Iryōsha ga kataru kotae naki sekai: ‘mamoribito’ no jinruigaku” (Chikuma Shinsho), “Diet no gensō: yaseru koto, aisareru koto” (Chikuma Primer Shinsho), and “Kyū ni guai ga waruku naru” co-authored by Makiko Miyano (Shobunsha)