Ann Lislegaard, one of the eighteen participating artists announced at the third Parasophia press conference, appeared in an Open Research Program held in Tokyo.

She began her lecture with a discussion of her work Crystal World (after J.G. Ballard) named after the novel by Ballard. Lislegaard explained that the idea for the work arose when the modern architectural vision she encountered in Brazil, when doing research prior to her participation in the 2006 São Paulo Art Biennial, overlapped in her mind with the world of Ballard’s novel, which she had taken along on the trip. She outlined the process of reading the novel, isolating gender and linguistic issues, and incorporating them into the work along with other ideas and images including Kurt Schwitters’s Merzbau. She also discussed other works such as Left Hand of Darkness (after Ursula K. Le Guin), Time Machine, Science Fiction_3114, and Oracles, Owls... Some Animals Never Sleep, and also showed a small section of a work currently in progress inspired by Chiaki Kawamata’s Death Sentences (1984), published in English translation in 2012. Lislegaard dismantles existing conventions of literature, architecture, and other fields, and incorporates the complex factors underlying them into her work. It will be fascinating to see what results from the research she conducts in Kyoto for Parasophia.

40 audience members were present for this lecture.

Video recording scheduled to be published on https://www.youtube.com/embed/wpcqbNdF8Ho

Open Research Program 11 [Lecture] Ann Lislegaard
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 6:00–8:00 PM
Venue: JFIC Hall SAKURA, The Japan Foundation 2F (Tokyo)
Presented by the Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture Organizing Committee, Kyoto Association of Corporate Executives (Kyoto Keizai Doyukai), Kyoto Prefecture, and Kyoto City
Co-presented by the Japan Foundation

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About the Open Research Program
The Artistic Director and his curatorial team will conduct part of their research for Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015 publicly, in the form of lectures and other events in this program.