Rebecca Jennison
Biographic Data
| ID | 247877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Jennison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Jennison |
| SIGNATURE | JENNISON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kyoto Seika University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Tomiyama, Taeko
Contact Zones and Liminal Spaces in Okinawan and Zainichi Contemporary Art
This article focuses on selected art works by third-generation Zainichi Koreans Haji Oh and Soni Kum, and Okinawan-based Chikako Yamashiro to explore ways in which these artists have continued to develop innovative, interdisciplinary practices to explore contact zones and liminal spaces in the East Asian context. Drawing on Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih’s notion of minor transnationalism, it argues the creative interventions of the three art…
Re-envisioning “East Asia”
This essay reflects on the International symposium titled “Trans-Pacific Japanese Diaspora Art: Encountering and Envisioning Minor-Transnationalism,” held in Tokyo in December 2018. Drawing on Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih’s notion of “minor transnationalism,” I discuss new perspectives on contemporary art in Japan. More specifically, I comment on the work of Zainichi Korean artist, Soni Kum and Okinawan artist, Yamashiro Chikako
Reimagining Islands
This article discusses works by Oh Haji, Soni Kum, and Yamashiro Chikako, three contemporary artists from Japan and Okinawa who work in a range of media including textiles, performance, and film. Drawing from Ukai Satoshi’s discussion of “Islands, Archipelagos, Peninsulas, and Continents,” I provide an analysis of select works by these artists, highlighting the trope “island and diaspora.” I argue that Oh’s textile objects and installations, Kum’…
Specters of East Asia
The essay "Specters of East Asia" is the contribution of playwright, actor, and scholar Choi Jinseok to the volume Still Hear the Wound. It is based on a presentation made by Choi in March, 2007, at the Sakima Art Museum in Okinawa, whose courtyard faces directly onto the U.S. Marine Air Station Futenma, itself bordered by winding roads and chain-link fences. While protests over construction of a new airstrip in the coastal fishing village of Hen…
Remembrance and reconciliation in Tomiyama Taeko's art
Revelations from the Sea
Japanese artist Tomiyama Taeko (b. 1921) has devoted her life to creating works of art that explore contested histories of war and colonialism in East Asia. For several decades she has collaborated with musician and composer Takahashi Yuji to produce powerful audio-visual slide and dvd works that illuminate little-told stories of the past; the two artists see themselves as modern day “tabigeinin” (wandering minstrels) who like poets and painters …
Painting Life Back into History-Hung Liu's "Hard-Won" Feminist Art
Painting Life Back into History— Hung Liu's "Hard-Won" Feminist Art Rebecca Jennison When I first visited Hung Liu in her Oakland, California, studio more than a year ago, I was immediately struck by the enormous scale and volume of the works hanging on, or stacked against, the expansive white walls. The vibrant and warm welcome I received from the artist herself resonated with the larger-than-life figures there in the room with us; they too seem…
Against Forgetting
This essay introduces three different generations of artists whose works deal with experience, memory, and trauma derived from World War II. The first generation refers to artists who experienced the war: they are harsh critics of the wartime government for the victimization of both Japanese and non-Japanese citizens, such as Koreans. The second generation of artists were born in the 1940s and 50s. These artists do not have direct memories of the…
Against Forgetting
Although international consensus has it that the Japanese people are unusually reluctant to face their own wartime past, this generalization has never been entirely true, as regular readers of The Asia Pacific Journal already know. Like human beings everywhere, since 1945 Japanese have debated the lessons of war and disagreed about its meaning among themselves. And, also like people everywhere, many Japanese regret both official policies and wide…
Imagination without Borders
Tomiyama Taeko, a Japanese visual artist born in 1921, is changing the way World War II is remembered in Japan, Asia, and the world. Her work deals with complicated moral and emotional issues of empire and war responsibility that cannot be summed up in simple slogans, which makes it compelling for more than just its considerable beauty. Japanese today are still grappling with the effects of World War II, and, largely because of the inconsistent a…
Engendering the Concept of Peace
This article draws on the Tokyo Tribunal on the Military Comfort Women to reexamine issues of violence against women in both wartime and peacetime. In highlighting the centrality of the issue of violence against women, Ito offers a feminist alternative to dominant peace discourse. The Tokyo Tribunal of December 2000, organized by Asian feminists, presented the testimony of scores of surviving military comfort women from a dozen Asian nations, as …
The UN decade for women and Japan
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The UN decade for women and Japan
Engendering the Concept of Peace
This article draws on the Tokyo Tribunal on the Military Comfort Women to reexamine issues of violence against women in both wartime and peacetime. In highlighting the centrality of the issue of violence against women, Ito offers a feminist alternative to dominant peace discourse. The Tokyo Tribunal of December 2000, organized by Asian feminists, presented the testimony of scores of surviving military comfort women from a dozen Asian nations, as …
Imagination without Borders
Tomiyama Taeko, a Japanese visual artist born in 1921, is changing the way World War II is remembered in Japan, Asia, and the world. Her work deals with complicated moral and emotional issues of empire and war responsibility that cannot be summed up in simple slogans, which makes it compelling for more than just its considerable beauty. Japanese today are still grappling with the effects of World War II, and, largely because of the inconsistent a…
Against Forgetting
Although international consensus has it that the Japanese people are unusually reluctant to face their own wartime past, this generalization has never been entirely true, as regular readers of The Asia Pacific Journal already know. Like human beings everywhere, since 1945 Japanese have debated the lessons of war and disagreed about its meaning among themselves. And, also like people everywhere, many Japanese regret both official policies and wide…
Remembrance and reconciliation in Tomiyama Taeko's art
Revelations from the Sea
Japanese artist Tomiyama Taeko (b. 1921) has devoted her life to creating works of art that explore contested histories of war and colonialism in East Asia. For several decades she has collaborated with musician and composer Takahashi Yuji to produce powerful audio-visual slide and dvd works that illuminate little-told stories of the past; the two artists see themselves as modern day “tabigeinin” (wandering minstrels) who like poets and painters …
Painting Life Back into History-Hung Liu's "Hard-Won" Feminist Art
Painting Life Back into History— Hung Liu's "Hard-Won" Feminist Art Rebecca Jennison When I first visited Hung Liu in her Oakland, California, studio more than a year ago, I was immediately struck by the enormous scale and volume of the works hanging on, or stacked against, the expansive white walls. The vibrant and warm welcome I received from the artist herself resonated with the larger-than-life figures there in the room with us; they too seem…
Against Forgetting
This essay introduces three different generations of artists whose works deal with experience, memory, and trauma derived from World War II. The first generation refers to artists who experienced the war: they are harsh critics of the wartime government for the victimization of both Japanese and non-Japanese citizens, such as Koreans. The second generation of artists were born in the 1940s and 50s. These artists do not have direct memories of the…
Specters of East Asia
The essay "Specters of East Asia" is the contribution of playwright, actor, and scholar Choi Jinseok to the volume Still Hear the Wound. It is based on a presentation made by Choi in March, 2007, at the Sakima Art Museum in Okinawa, whose courtyard faces directly onto the U.S. Marine Air Station Futenma, itself bordered by winding roads and chain-link fences. While protests over construction of a new airstrip in the coastal fishing village of Hen…
Reimagining Islands
This article discusses works by Oh Haji, Soni Kum, and Yamashiro Chikako, three contemporary artists from Japan and Okinawa who work in a range of media including textiles, performance, and film. Drawing from Ukai Satoshi’s discussion of “Islands, Archipelagos, Peninsulas, and Continents,” I provide an analysis of select works by these artists, highlighting the trope “island and diaspora.” I argue that Oh’s textile objects and installations, Kum’…
Re-envisioning “East Asia”
This essay reflects on the International symposium titled “Trans-Pacific Japanese Diaspora Art: Encountering and Envisioning Minor-Transnationalism,” held in Tokyo in December 2018. Drawing on Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih’s notion of “minor transnationalism,” I discuss new perspectives on contemporary art in Japan. More specifically, I comment on the work of Zainichi Korean artist, Soni Kum and Okinawan artist, Yamashiro Chikako
Contact Zones and Liminal Spaces in Okinawan and Zainichi Contemporary Art
This article focuses on selected art works by third-generation Zainichi Koreans Haji Oh and Soni Kum, and Okinawan-based Chikako Yamashiro to explore ways in which these artists have continued to develop innovative, interdisciplinary practices to explore contact zones and liminal spaces in the East Asian context. Drawing on Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih’s notion of minor transnationalism, it argues the creative interventions of the three art…
Tomiyama, Taeko
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