HYBRID JAPAN
27/10/2016 al 10/11/2016
Japanese culture course with Mami Goda
After the success of the previous courses, Mrs. Mami Goda launched a new version of her tour to Japan, exploring various facets of her fascinating culture.
An island country, modern and exotic: Japan never ceases to fascinate Westerners for its aesthetic so alien to that of the West. It can be found in a cup of tea or a brush stroke, even in a garden or a house. Harmony, purity, tranquility, simplicity, elegance; the words that circulate around the Japanese aesthetic reached the certainty of being part of the "Beautiful Japan" baptized by Kawabata in his Nobel Prize speech in 1968. Twenty-six years later, on the same site, Kenzaburo Oe boasted his concern towards his fractional homeland in his speech “Ambiguous Japan”: a country that was closed for almost 200 years, that lost the war, that transliterates and imitates the West, that not only develops its own pop culture but also exports it and collapses because of earthquakes
Both architecture and contemporary art reflect current Japan – a hybrid in many ways (traditional and current, national and international, authentic and copied). Japanese popular culture also reveals the sensitivity and strength of modern Japan.
We then organized three meetings of an hour and a half to talk about the most interesting aspects of an ancient culture whose sense of aesthetics inspires to know it more deeply.
MAMI GODA, born in Japan, is trained in Philosophy at the prestigious French university Paris-Sorbonne and the Louvre School. He is a specialist in reflection on art. He worked at auction houses in Paris and Tokyo. She currently resides in Buenos Aires where she is a teacher, interpreter and translator of Japanese. Since 2013 he writes the newspaper of the Japanese collective La Plata Hochi and has collaborated in different graphic media.
