Co-creating Cultures for the Future Week
Create new cultural base
Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition
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- * Programme times and content are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on this website and via the ticket booking system.
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2025.05.05[Mon]
13:30 ～ 16:00
(Venue Open 13:00)
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- Theme Weeks Studio
Programme details
The programme, together with the General Sponsors, explores: 'How diverse values can coexist across time and space to maximize the appeal and potential of new cultures？'
*Suzanne Lacey has been replaced by Lauren Bong due to performance reasons.
Cast
Moderator
©Photo: Ito Akinori
Mami Kataoka
Director, Mori Art Museum / Director, National Center for Art Research
Kataoka Mami joined the Mori Art Museum in 2003, taking on the role of Director in 2020. She has also been the Director of the National Center for Art Research, Japan since April 2023.
Beyond Tokyo, Kataoka has held position at the Hayward Gallery in London as International Curator from 2007 to 2009, while she has also acted as Co-Artistic Director for the 9th Gwangju Biennale (2012), Artistic Director for the 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018) and Artistic Director for the Aichi Triennale 2022. Kataoka served as a Board Member (2014-2022) and the President (2020-2022) of CIMAM [International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art].
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©Lu Yang
Lu Yang
Artist
Lu Yang is a contemporary interdisciplinary artist based in Tokyo and Shanghai. His work, deeply influenced by Buddhist philosophy, explores themes of identity, life, technology, and spirituality.
Lu Yang extensively utilizes computer graphics (CG) technology and game engines as creative media, collaborating with experts from various fields such as scientists, psychologists, designers, and music producers.
He participated in the Venice Biennale in both 2015 and 2022 and has been involved in other major museum exhibitions and biennials/triennials. Lu Yang was awarded the BMW Art Journey in 2019 and was also the recipient of the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year award in 2022.
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Kylie Kwong
Chef, collaborator, Powerhouse Associate, Powerhouse Parramatta, Sydney
Kylie Kwong is an Australian-Chinese chef who uses food as a catalyst for positive social impact and cultural exchange. As a third-generation Australian, she has drawn on her southern Chinese heritage to reinterpret Cantonese cuisine, combining uniquely Australian ingredients with traditional Chinese cooking methods and flavours. Food remains a simple yet universal connector that brings us together. For Kwong, food and cooking is an exploratory and conscious act, not only a pleasure for the senses but also a platform for cultural exchange, storytelling and building community. Widely known for her former restaurants Billy Kwong and Lucky Kwong, and her cookbooks and TV series, Kwong recently hung up her restaurateur hat after 24 years, to focus on wider arts, cultural and community projects, including her current role as a Powerhouse Associate for Powerhouse Parramatta, Sydney.
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Reijiro Izumi
Urasenke
Reijiro Izumi is Tea master and researcher of the Way of Tea. He is the second son of Masakazu Izumi, the younger brother of Zabosai, the 16th head of the Urasenke school. Studied under architectural historian Toshinori Nakamura at Kyoto University of Art and Design Graduate School, and received a Ph.D for research on tea utensils especially kettle. After working as a curator for Sakai city museum, he currently serves as vice director of Chado research center, vice principal of Urasenke Gakuen Professional College of Chado, director of NPO Wa nogakko, and Head of SABIÉ.
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©Image courtesy of Singapore Art Museum
Ho Tzu Nyen
Artist
Born in 1976 in Singapore, where he lives and works.
Steeped in numerous Eastern and Western cultural references ranging from art history to theatre and from cinema to music to philosophy, Ho Tzu Nyen’s works blend mythical narratives and historical facts to mobilise different understandings of history, its writing and its transmission. The central theme of his œuvre is a long-term investigation of the plurality of cultural identities in Southeast Asia, a region so multifaceted in terms of its languages, religions, cultures and influences that it is impossible to reduce it to a simple geographical area or some fundamental historical base. This observation as to the history of this region of the world is reflected in his pieces which weave together different regimes of knowledge, narratives and representations. From documentary research to fantasy, his work combines archival images, animation and film in installations that are often immersive and theatrical.
One-person exhibitions of his work have been held at the Hessel Museum of Art (2024), Art Sonje Center (2024), Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2024), Singapore Art Museum (2023), Hammer Museum (2022), Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (2021), Crow Museum of Asian Arts (2021), Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] (2021), Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art (Oldenburg, 2019), Kunstverein in Hamburg (2018), Ming Contemporary Art Museum [McaM] (Shanghai, 2018), Asia Art Archive (2017), Guggenheim Bilbao (2015), Mori Art Museum, (2012), The Substation (Singapore, 2003). He represented the Singapore Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011).
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©HAM/Sonja Hyytiäinen, 2023.
Haegue Yang
Artist
Haegue Yang (b. 1971, Seoul) lives and works between Berlin and Seoul. Spanning a vast range of media—from collage to kinetic sculpture and room-scaled installations—Yang’s work links disparate histories and traditions in her distinctive visual idiom. The artist draws on a variety of craft techniques and materials, and the cultural connotations they carry: from drying racks to venetian blinds, hanji to artificial straw. Yang’s multisensory environments activate perception beyond the visual, creating immersive experiences that treat issues such as labor, migration, and displacement from the oblique vantage of the aesthetic. Her recent solo exhibitions have taken place at venues including: Hayward Gallery, London (2024); Arts Club of Chicago (2024); Helsinki Art Museum (2024); National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2023); S.M.A.K. – Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent (2023); Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2023); SMK – National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2022); MMCA, Seoul (2020); Tate St Ives (2020); MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2019); and Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2018).
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Lauren Bon
Metabolic Studio, Artist
Lauren Bon is an environmental artist based in Los Angeles. Her work operates at the intersection of art, infrastructure, and social engagement, often using regenerative frameworks to reimagine urban systems and landscapes. She founded Metabolic Studio in 2005 as a platform for socially engaged art and ecological transformation. Her projects, such as Not A Cornfield and Bending the River, explore the metabolic potential of cultural action to shift policy, support community resilience, and restore connection between human and non-human life.
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Co-creating Cultures for the Future Week
Create new cultural base
-
2025.05.05[Mon]
13:30～16:00
(Venue Open 13:00)
- Theme Weeks Studio
- * Programme times and content are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on this website and via the ticket booking system.
Reservations are required for this programme.
Booking is available from the 2-month advance draw. Please check the site below for the timing of the booking start.
Please note that bookings may not be available due to the status.
For more information about making a reservation to watch a programme.
This programme is scheduled to be live streamed at the Virtual Expo. We will inform you once it is confirmed.
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