Workshop: ‘Peta Peta Monyo Monyo’.

Kinan Art Week  will hold Kinan Art Week 2024 “Igoku Tamaru: lives without boundaries” on the theme of slime molds from 20 September.
Prior to the opening of the exhibition, Kinan Art Week will collaborate with Minakata Kumagusu Museum to jointly organise a slime mold workshop ‘Peta Peta Monyo Monyo’.

In this workshop, we will express the pulsation of slime molds on the large glass window at the entrance of Minakata Kumagusu Museum using resin clay, featuring Dr Taisuke Karasawa, a Kumagusu Minakata and slime mold researcher.

While superimposing the sensations of your fingers and the movement of the slime mold (deformed body), you will knead, paste and connect the colourful clay.
The only rule is that it must be slime mold-like.

Sometimes observing the actual object under a microscope, sometimes looking at it from a distance or from the back (outside), everyone finally creates a single shape together. No special ‘skills’ are required for this workshop.

The important points are that we are not bound by the boundaries of animals, plants or fungi, and that we create colours and shapes that resemble no one and nothing else, and connect them together. Let’s connect the undulations and overlap them to represent a large slime mold.

【Information】
　Date: 15 September (Sunday).
　Lecturer: Mr Taisuke Karasawa (Akita University of Art)
　Time: 1 pm – 3 pm
　Place: Minakata Kumagusu Hall, New Wing lobby.
　Admission: free (admission fee required).
　Capacity: 20 people
　　　　　*Reservations are required
　　　　　*This event is open to infants and young children.
　Application: Click here to apply (Google Form).
　*Applications can also be made by telephone (Minakata Kumagusu Museum 0739-42-2872).

Instructor: Taisuke Karasawa.
Born 1978 in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, Karasawa graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Keio University in March 2002, and completed his PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Waseda University in July 2012. Grant-in-aid researcher for the 1st Minakata Kumagusu Research Encouragement Project. After working as a JSPS Research Fellow (DC-2 [Philosophy and Ethics]) and as an assistant professor at the School of Social Sciences, Waseda University, she is currently an associate professor at the Department of Arts & Roots, Faculty of Fine Arts, Akita Public Art University and the Graduate School of Complex Arts.
He specialises in philosophy and cultural anthropology. In particular, he explores the fundamental ‘way of being’ of folklore, religion and culture that has been built up by mankind through the thought of the intellectual giant Minakata Kumagusu (1867-1941). In recent years, he has also been conducting comparative research on Kumagusu and artistic thinking, as well as on the contemporary potential of Kegon thought.In 2019, he was awarded the 13th Yasuo Yuasa Writing Prize.