2019 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
The Archipelago Speaks Back: Pacific Islander Art and Resistance between Oceania, Japan, and Postcolonial Metropoles
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19K01210
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
DVORAK G・E 早稲田大学, 国際学術院, 准教授 (20613079)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | decolonization / climate change / indigenous studies / Pacific Islands / postcolonial / art / resistance / representation |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
1. conducted extensive research and studio visits throughout Japan, coordinating with institutions in Kyoto, Osaka, Aomori, Hokkaido, Okinawa
2. facilitated and undertook successful and significant research workshops in Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Philippines.
3. successfully surveyed museum and gallery collections, interviewed artists in UAE (Sharjah), Europe (Italy and Germany) and the United States (New York);
4. presented research in several forums and coordinated a special four-day research symposium program with Pacific Islander artists as part of the Yamagata Film Festival (October);
5. published findings in peer-reviewed Japanese book, peer-reviewed English book (Routledge), and submitted essay to Cambridge University Press
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
For the first year, I had planned it would take longer to conduct research in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and other Pacific and European sites, expecting to have to completely build my research project myself with minimal local support. However, I was lucky to be able to affiliate with local collaborators who were doing similar projects and enabled me to conduct my own research within their institutions or projects. I was thus able to utilize research funds productively, meet with influential artists/experts swiftly, and gain access to rare works and sites. I was also able to add a trip to the UAE when I learned artists I was researching were exhibiting there. This, together with work in the Philippines, strengthened and supported my original project significantly.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Unexpected events due to the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in making it necessary for me to postpone most or all of the international research trips I had planned for FY2020, but this is unlikely to actually delay my project. I now have a robust network of collaborators thanks to last year's research, so I am able to focus on conducting domestic research in Japan this year, exploring online collections and working with artists and collaborators especially in Okinawa, Hokkaido, and Aomori. Therefore I am rearranging the research schedule while also writing, holding an online symposium instead of an in-person workshop, and preparing for in-depth extended travel later this year or next year, when I will also be curating an exhibit in Brisbane as an outcome of this project in 2021.
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| Remarks |
These are ongoing collaborations which are not yet complete and do not have websites.
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