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Workshop by Prof. Kodama<\/p><\/div>\n
On the first day of the three days, the 29th, Waseda University Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum<\/a> Associate Director Ryuichi Kodama (professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University) conducted a workshop, \u201cTechnologies and Methodologies in Japanese Theater Studies,\u201d ahead of the actual symposium. At the workshop, Professor Kodama discussed the collection of documents, exhibitions, events, research, and publication that take place at the Theatre Museum and explained, with the aid of video, how the museum allows members of the public to access documents in its possession using a digital archive collection. Additionally, the professor described documents relevant to Japanese theater studies in detail and touched upon topics including a display system for kuzushiji<\/a> (a cursive style of writing used in centuries past) newly available for the public to view such texts and\u2014as examples of theater studies in Japan\u2014\u201cCho-Kabuki\u201d and other attempts at combining cutting-edge technologies with traditional Japanese performing arts. UCLA Associate Professor Michael Emmerich and University of Southern California (USC) Associate Professor Satoko Shimazaki interpreted the first and second halves of the workshop. The attendees listened intently to Professor Kodama’s detailed but easy-to-understand lecture.<\/p>\n Reading Performance<\/p><\/div>\n That evening, writer Yoko Tawada, poet Keijiro Suga, and computer programmer Matthew Fargo put on a performative reading event. At this reading, which was titled \u201cCommon Confusions,\u201d AI programs were employed to perform multilingual readings of numerous works by Tawada in English, Japanese, and German, among other languages. These AI readings and the live readings conducted at the venue enchanted the audience.<\/p>\n The symposium proper was held on the 30th and the 31st. Annual Symposium<\/p><\/div>\n In the afternoon session, UC Berkley Associate Professor Weihong Bao discussed research into stage-setting in early 20th-century China, and New York University Assistant Professor Hentyle Yapp considered fireworks as an artistic medium in post-socialist Chinese society and the political role that such fireworks performances play. The following day, the 31st, McGill University Assistant Professor Michelle Cho gave a presentation on how, through K-Pop dance videos uploaded to YouTube, the actions of fans have overturned the old conventional wisdom regarding pop culture and have formed communities. So-Rim Lee, a graduate student at Stanford University, presented on queerness as performance via the cosmetic surgery featured on South Korean reality shows. UCLA Assistant Professor Michelle Liu\u2019s presentation was on the words expressed through the gestures and poses of those who wear \u201cGothic and Lolita\u201d fashion. In the afternoon session that concluded the scholarly presentations, Yonsei University Professor Miseong Woo and Dartmouth College Associate Professor Eng-Beng Lim noted how architectural structures in South Korea and Singapore can function as means of deciphering the two countries\u2019 pasts and presents. Professor Woo employed the example of Seoul’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), which is said to have helped forge South Korea\u2019s national identity. Meanwhile, Associate Professor Lim described the role that the unique architecture of Singapore has played as a form of visual art. All 14 of the research presentations\u2014which covered a wide array of topics, including modern theater, Japanese cinema, K-Pop, and Chinese huaju theater\u2014were dense with information, and in each of the four discussion sessions, each question primed the pump for the next. There were many productive exchanges of views at this symposium thanks to the diverse fields of the researchers who participated, and the venue was filled with a lively atmosphere from start to finish.<\/p>\n A Graduate Student Roundtable was organized in addition to the workshop and the symposium. Around 30 doctoral candidates and others affiliated with Waseda University, UCLA, and USC\u2014as well as Harvard University, Yale University, the National University of Singapore, and other institutions\u2014assembled in one room, and these young scholars each discussed their research in their various fields of study, including East Asian theater, film, literature, and performances, and shared information with one another. In particular, seven students sent from Waseda University gave detailed presentations on the findings of their studies, the topics of which consisted of kamigata kabuki (kabuki as it was traditionally performed in the region around Kyoto and Osaka), musicals based on graphic novels in the horror genre, the kabuki version of Twelfth Night (based on the play by Shakespeare) directed by Yukio Ninagawa, the staging of playwright and director Oriza Hirata, Japonism in contemporary ballet, dojojimono (kabuki works that involve dancing and take inspiration from a Noh play), and Japanese cinema. At this space for learning carefully led by the roundtable\u2019s organizer, these students conveyed to the other attendees the techniques employed in, and other aspects of, Japanese theater studies and were stimulated with new knowledge of the state of performance studies in other countries through their interactions with the students from the other universities. It appears certain that this valuable opportunity for interaction and networking among the young scholars who participated and who will be the next generation of leaders in their field will contribute greatly to their subsequent research endeavors.<\/p>\n Roundtable for graduate students<\/p><\/div>\n Schedule<\/em><\/p>\n Thursday March 29<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Graduate Student Roundtable <\/strong><\/p>\n Workshops \uff1a<\/strong><\/p>\n \u25c6Kodama Ryuichi (Waseda University)<\/p>\n Technologies and Methodologies in Japanese Theater Studies-A Workshop Using Materials from the Waseda University Tsubouchi Memorial Theater Museum <\/em><\/p>\n \u25c6Tawada Yoko (Writer) A Performative Reading\u00a0 – Common Confusions<\/em><\/p>\n Friday March 30\u00a0<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n 2018 International Symposium<\/strong> Opening Remarks \u25c6Satoko Shimazaki \u201cMaking Voices, Creating Silence: Woodblock Print as Auditory Technology\u201d (USC)<\/p>\n \u25c6Kerim Yasar \u201cGestures in Light: Notes Towards a Mediated Non-Verbal Language\u201d (USC)<\/p>\n \u25c6Jang Wook Huh \u201cCross-Racial Ventriloquism: Circulating Blackness in Korean Literature\u201d (University of Literature\u201dWashington)<\/p>\n \u25c6William Bridges \u201cBlackness in Japanese Literature in the Age of Hip Hop- A Mic Check\u201d (University of Rochester)<\/p>\n Discussion<\/p>\n \u25c6Weihong Bao \u201cSet Design Thinking: Background as Technics\u201d\u00a0 (UC Berkeley)<\/p>\n \u25c6Hentyle Yapp \u201cFire-works, Shine, and Post-Socialist Form\u201d\u00a0 (New York University)<\/p>\n \u25c6Tarryn Chun \u201cIteration,Mediation,Citation: Performance Technologies and\/as Media History\u201d\u3000(University of Notre Dame)<\/p>\n \u25c6Noriko Manabe \u201cThe sound demo in Japanese civil discourse\u201d\u3000(Temple University)<\/p>\n Discussion<\/p>\n Saturday March 31<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n 2018 International Symposium<\/strong> \u25c6Michelle Cho \u201cKinetic Intimacies and the Cosmopolitical: Kpop Dance Videos on YouTube\u201d\u3000 (McGill University)<\/p>\n \u25c6So-Rim Lee \u201cCosmetic Surgery\u2019s Queer Performativity in\u2018Let Me In\u2019\u201d\u3000(Stanford University)<\/p>\n \u25c6Michelle Liu Carriger \u201cGlobal Girl Power Now: Gothic Lolita and Transnational Communities of Frilly Femininity\u201d (UCLA)<\/p>\n \u25c6Sean Metzger \u201cWearable China: Costume and Technologies of Seeing and Feeling\u201d\u3000(UCLA)<\/p>\n Discussion<\/p>\n \u25c6Miseong Woo \u201cPerformance, Technology, and Historicity of the Urban Space: Reading Collective Memories and Desires of Koreans \u25c6Eng-Beng Lim \u201cAsian Megastructural Performance\u201d\u3000(Dartmouth College)<\/p>\n Discussion<\/p>\n Closing Remarks Technologies of East Asian Performance For the three days from March 29 to 31, 2018, an international symposiu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[97,111],"class_list":["post-3796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-en-gj","tag-report-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC04568-610x458.jpg\")
\nOn the first day of the symposium, Michael Emmerich and Satoko Shimazaki provided some opening remarks, and after the objectives of the international symposium were explained, presentations by scholars commenced.
\nIn her presentation, Ms. Shimazaki used examples such as the performers Onoe Kikugoro V and Enu Sanyutei and the texts Mukashi Moy\u014d Gekij\u014d Hinagata and Gekij\u014d Setsuy\u014dsh\u016b to describe the roles that woodblock books and print culture played in kabuki and other early modern performances at the start of the 19th century, as well as how these phenomena are connected to the performing arts of today.
\nNext, USC Assistant Professor Kerim Yasar took up the topic of post-war Japanese cinema\u2014including Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha and Yasujiro Ozu’s Late Spring\u2014in his presentation and discussed the gesturing of the characters appearing on screen, in particular, considering how the same actors expressed gave expression to their acting under the direction of different directors.
\nIn his presentation, University of Washington Assistant Professor Jang Wook Huh related the history of the intelligentsia of the Korean Peninsula translating works by black authors as a way of speaking out in place of Korean literature during the peninsula\u2019s period of colonization and described the techniques of inter-ethnic cultural borrowing, expression, and circulation, as demonstrated by Korean-language translations of black literature. In a similar vein, University of Rochester Assistant Professor William Bridges then gave a presentation about the boarder-transcending influence of hip hop-era black culture on Japanese literature.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC04588-610x458.jpg\")
\nAfterward, University of Notre Dame Assistant Professor Tarryn Chun focused her presentation on a theater troupe based in Beijing and used the example of the huaju (a style of Chinese realist theater) piece Thunderstorm 2.0 to discuss the technology employed in contemporary Chinese theater and live performances, and Temple University Associate Professor Noriko Manabe gave a presentation that discussed the music used in political demonstrations in Japan, discussing the background to, and history of, how this music took on the role of a political tool and the existence of performer-speakers who participate in demonstrations.<\/p>\n
\nNext, UCLA Associate Professor Sean Metzger discussed the productions of Zhang Yimou (a Chinese film director who worked on the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang Olympics) and considered the costume effects and audience techniques employed in those productions.<\/p>\n
\nAt the end, there were closing remarks by UCLA Professor Suk-Young Kim: \u201cCreativity is closely related to technology; the two are inseparable. Performances are no exception: Although there are a multitude of issues relating to East Asia, which has achieved rapid development, that have yet to be considered, I expect that we will see future research along these avenues.\u201d With that statement, the two-day symposium drew to a close.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DSC04386-610x458.jpg\")
\n\u25c6Suga Keijro\uff08Poet)
\n\u25c6Matthew Fargo\u00a0 (Computer Programmer)<\/p>\n
\nTechnologies of East Asian Performance Day1<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nMichael Emmerich (UCLA) and Satoko Shimazaki (USC)<\/p>\n
\nTechnologies of East Asian Performance Day2<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nthrough DDP\u201d\u00a0 (Yonsei University)<\/p>\n
\nSuk-Young Kim (UCLA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"