Publications
Books
Introduction to
Visual Culture, Course and Reader, Israel: Open University [forthcoming]
Editor, PostGender:
Gender, Sexuality and Performativity in Japanese Culture, Cambridge
Scholars Press, UK, 341p. July 2009 ISBN 1-4438-0990-X
PostGender: Gender,
Sexuality and Performativity in Contemporary Japanese Art, Exhibition
catalogue, Haifa Museum Publication, 232p. full colour, Sept. 2005 ISBN
965-7067-61-8
Theses
Strategies of Camouflage:
Invisibility, Schizoanalysis and Multifocality in Contemporary Visual
Art, PhD dissertation, University of London, 2007
Morimura Yasumasa:
Portrait of the Artist as Art History and the question of TransCultural
Mimicry, MA Thesis, Tel Aviv University, 2001 [in Hebrew]
Book Chapters
Book Chapters
The Belly-dancer
and The Palestinian Bride: Images of Arab Women in Contemporary Japanese
Photography (working title), a chapter in: Melanie Trede, Monica Juneja
(eds.) Gender and Body in the Contemporary Arts, University of Heidelberg,
2012.
Pelluses/ Phani:
the multiplication, displacement and appropriation of the phallus, a
chapter in Keith Vincent & Nina Cornyetz (eds.), Perversion and
Modern Japan: Experiments in Psychoanalysis, London: Routledge, 2010
pp. 102-123
Anti-Oedipus, Ajase
Complex and PostGender: The Multiplicity and Temporality of Genders,
introductory chapter in PostGender: Gender, Sexuality and Performativity
in Japanese Culture, Cambridge Scholars Press, UK, 2009, pp. xxvii-lvi
The Multiplicity
of the Phallus: Becoming and Repetition, chapter 7 in: PostGender: Gender,
Sexuality and Performativity in Japanese Culture, Cambridge Scholars
Press, UK, 2009 pp. 109-154
The Pregnant Man:
Fiction or Future Reality? chapter 9 in: PostGender: Gender, Sexuality
and Performativity in Japanese Culture, Cambridge Scholars Press, UK,
2009 pp. 171-181
Guidelines for Japanese
Garden design in: Architectural Solutions, Contemporary Architecture
Guide book, Uriyan Publishing House, Tel Aviv, 1999 pp. 11-28 (in Hebrew)
The Myth of "Authenticity":
"Israeli" design as a Weave of Influences in: From the Israel
Museum to Carmel market, Israeli Design, Urian Publishing House, Tel
Aviv, 2001, pp. 4-6
Between Phantasmagoria
and Functionality: Market Economy and Mass design In: From The Israel
Museum to Carmel market, Israeli Design, Urian Publishing House, Tel
Aviv, 2001, pp. 209-211
Edited
issues
Guest Editor, Trans-Asia
Photography Review, issue 3, October 2011. Issue subject: ‘The Evasive
Portrait: Portraiture in Contemporary East-Asian Art’. Contributors include:
Dr. Ayelet Zohar on contemporary Japanese portraits; Dr. Namiko Kunimoto
on portraits of Westerners dressed as Tibetan Lamas, early 20th c.; Dr.
Choi Youngsook on contemporary portraiture in Korea; Wang Chunchen on
contemporary portraityre in China.
Articles
The
Elu[va]sive Portrait: Mimicry, Masquerade and Camouflage
Conceptual and Theoretical Notes, an Introduction,
Trans Asia Photography Review, Vol. 2 issue 1, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=tap;view=text;rgn=main;idno=7977573.0002.102
[accessed Oct. 2011]
The Elu[va]sive
Japanese Portrait: Repetition, Difference and Multiplicity, , Trans
Asia Photography Review, Vol. 2 issue 1, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=tap;view=text;rgn=main;idno=7977573.0002.103
[accessed Oct. 2011]
Photography and
Camouflage: Indexicality and Invisibility/ Tsukada Mamoru’s Identical
Twins series (2003) and Suzuki Norio’s photos of Onoda Hiroo (1974),
Photographies, Vol. 5, 2012 [forthcoming]
The Paintings of
Ibrahim Nubani : Assimilation, Camouflage and Schizophrenia, Theory,
Culture & Society, vol. 28(1) (Jan. 2011), 3-33.
Bin Laden, The Belly
Dancer and the Ethnographic Collection of Israel Museum: Images of Muslims,
Arabs and Palestinians in Contemporary Japanese Art, Ma'arav Magazine:
for Art and Culture, Dec. 2009 [electronic magazine] http://maarav.org.il/2009/12/13/zohar_japan/
Excruciating Ambivalence:
the Paintings of Ibrahim Nubani and the State of Assimilation, Camouflage
and Schizophrenia, Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 27(6) (Nov. 2010)
Surface, Skin,
Camouflage and the Index: Huang Yan’s Face Tattoo (2005), Next
Level, Vol. 13, June 2008
The paintings of
Ibrahim Nubani: Modernism, Assimilation, Camouflage and schizophrenia
Protocols, Issue 5, Bezalel Magazine of Theory and History of Art, April
2007 [electronic edition]
http://bezalel.secured.co.il/zope/home/he/1173510036/ibrahim
Tomoko Sawada’s
School Days, Next Level Magazine (UK), issue 9, June 2006, p. 45
The Work of Curatorship
in the age of Digital Reproduction: The curator as Art Critic Protocols,
Issue 2, Bezalel Magazine of Theory and History of Art, March 2006 [electronic
edition]
http://bezalel.secured.co.il/zope/home/en/1143538156/1143567844_en
Yayoi
Kusama’s Narcissus Garden (1966-2005): Membranes, Self-shattering, Camouflage
and schizophrenia, Studio 151, March 2004 pp. 66-68 (in Hebrew)
Chen Zhen: The Edge
of Poetics- 50 strokes to Each, Studio 95, July-August 1998, pp. 62-64
(in Hebrew)
Mega-Manga, Studio
24, July-August 1992 pp.22-26 (in Hebrew)
Invited
lectures, Colloquium Presentation and Conference papers
The Camel Breeder,
the Belly Dancer, and the Terrorist: Images of Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians
in Contemporary Japanese Art and Visual Culture, in: Barbarians, Monsters,
Hybrids and Mutants: Asian Inventions of Human "Others”,
The Freer | Fall Symposium History of Art dept., University of Michigan,
Ann Arbour, Oct. 22nd, 2011.
Strategies of Camouflage:
Suzuki Norio’s Photographs of Onoda Hiroo (1974), and TsukadaMamoru’s Identical
Twins Series (2003), Centre of Japanese Studies, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Oct. 20th, 2011.
Camouflage, Photography
and [In]visibility: Yamashiro Chikako's Choros of
the Melodies series (2010), Trans Asia Photography Annual
Symposium, Hampshire College, Oct. 14th, 2011
Between Political
Consciousness and Escapism, Tashmoo Lecture at Hampshire College,
Liebling Center for Film, Photography, and Video, Hampshire College
Oct. 12th, 2011
Anthropology, Topology
and Photography: Masaru Goto and the Japanese Burakumin’s (outcaste)
Struggle for Social Equality CRESC Annual Conference, The Social
Life of Methods, St. Hugh College, Oxford University, 1-3 Sep. 2010,
Anthropology, Topology
and Photography: Masaru Goto and the Japanese Burakumin’s (outcaste)
Struggle for Social Equality CRESC Annual Conference, The Social Life
of Methods, 1-3 Sep. 2010, St. Hugh College, Oxford University
Nihonjin, Burakumin:
Masaru Goto and Kenji Nakagami’s Representations of the Mundane and
the Fantastic 9th Conference of East-Asian Studies in Israel, Haifa
University, 26-7 April, 2010
PostGender: The
Multiplicity and Temporality of Gender and Sexuality Gender Studies
Programme, Ben-Gurion University, April 13th, 2010
Urban Lives: Representation
of Accelerated Urbanization in Contemporary Chinese Art Departmental
seminar, East-Asian Studies dept., Tel Aviv University, March 23rd,
2010
Bin Laden, The Belly
Dancer and The Ethnographic collection of Israel Museum: Images of Muslims,
Arabs and Palestinians in Contemporary Japanese Art Departmental seminar,
East-Asian Studies dept., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Nov. 11th, 2009
Orientalisng Orientalism:
Images of Arabs and Arabness in Contemporary Japanese Art 8th Conference
of East-Asian Studies in Israel, Tel Aviv University, 4-5th June, 2009
Fact and Fiction
in the Jungle: The jungle years of Onoda Hir?, Suzuki Norio’s photojournalistic
images (1974) and Tsukada mamoru’ Identical Twin Series (2003) Centre
of East Aian Studies, Brown Bag Lunch series, Stanford University, May18th,
2009
Orientalisng Orientalism:
Images of Arabs and Arabness in Contemporary Japanese Art American Comparative
Literature Asociation (ACLA), Harvard University, Mar. 9th, 2009
Afro Samurai: Black
and Japanese cultures as non-West/ non-White discourses Anime Explosion
panel, Chair: Debra Deacon, College Art Association (CAA), Feb. 2009
Nomads and Settlers:
Ayelet Zohar’s video-art Centre of Contemporary Art (CCA) Tel Aviv,
Dec. 2008
Fact, Fiction and
Camouflage: The photojournalistic images of Suzuki Norio of Onoda Hiro
(1974) and Tsukada Mamoru’s Identical Twins series (2003) History of
Art dept., Ben-Gurion University, Be’er Sheva, Israel, Dec. 2008
The Art of Camouflage:
The jungle years of Onoda Hiroo and Mamoru Tsukada’s Identical Twins
photographic series War and Art panel, Chair: Louisa McDonald, Asian
Studies Japan Conference (ASJC), June 2008
In Praise of Shadows:
Tanizaki Jun’ichiro and Sugimoto Hiroshi considerations of Darkness,
Obscurity and Affect Photographic Processes and the Narrative seminar,
Chair: Atsuko Sakaki, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA),
Apr. 2008
Loops
Open studio session: Video Art, CAA conference, Dallas, TX Feb. 2008
Skins of Camouflage:
Invisibility, The Wind Skin and Camouflage in Contemporary East-Asian
Art Brown Bag lectures, Centre of East-Asian Studies, Stanford
University, Oct. 2007
Phalluses, Session:
Mode of Communication in Japan: Play, Performance Studies international
no. 12, Queen Mary College, University of London, 14-18 June 2006
Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus
Garden (1966-2004): Membranes, Self-shattering, Camouflage and schizophrenia
Session: Contemporary Asian Art: Strategies, Negotiations and Renegotiations,
College Art Association, 94th Conference, Boston, MA, 22-25 Feb. 2006
The Seven Genders
of Japan: Deconstructing Binarism, Constituting Multiplicity in: PostGender:
Gender in Japanese Culture Conference, Tikotin Museum of Japanese
Art, Haifa Israel, 8-9 Dec. 2005
SuperFlat, Smoothness
and the Disappearance of Space: Camouflage and Schizoanalysis; Research
Spaces Conference, Bartlett school of Architecture & Slade school
of Fine Art, UCL, London 14-18 Nov. 2005
Yayoi Kusama’s
Narcissus Garden (1966-2004): Membranes, Self-shattering, Camouflage
and schizophrenia Graduate conference, Japan Research Centre,
SOAS, 6-7 May 2005
The Paintings of
Ibrahim Nubani: Modernism, Camouflage and Schizophrenia Traditional
and Modern workshop, Discussion group, SOAS, 4-6 May 2005
Camouflage and
Schizophrenia: Masquerade and Crisis in the Arab-Israeli Conflict Invited
lecture, interpreting the documentary film Undercover Dreams Group for
War and Cultural Studies, Westminster University, London, 9th Feb. 2005
The Politics of
Palimpsests Invited lecture, Re-mediating Handwriting, Bauhaus University,
Weimar, 17-18 June 2004
Strategies of Camouflage:
The Second SkinSkin: Text/Texture/image conference, University of London
Senate House, 13-15 April 2004
The Bathroom: The
Fetishisation of Water and Space in Peter Greenaway Inside Rooms, “26
Bathrooms, A-Z, London and Oxfordshire” (1985) Domestic Designs, Postgraduate
Research Day, Royal College of Art, London, 9 February 2004
Onnagata to Onna-rashisa:
Representations of Femininity in Japanese cultureSecond East-Asian Conference
in Israel, Tel Aviv University, 20 January 2003
Inter-Bodies: Morimura
Yasumasa between the Male and the Female bodyOther Sex, Tel Aviv
University, Gay and queer studies conference, 25 June 2002
Morimura Yasumasa:
Portrait of the artist as Art History, and the question of Trans-cultural
Mimicry Asian Studies Conference Japan, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo,
23-24 June þ 2001
Eikoh Hosoe: the
Fact of Blackness in the context of Black-and-White photography
in JapanAssociation of Asian Studies conference, Chicago, 22-25 March
2001
Mariko in Wonderland:
between Bodhisatva Kannon and the Cyborg
First East-Asian Conference in Israel, Hebrew University, Jerusalem,
February 2001
Native Types: Portrait
of Japanese Women as Exotic Bodies, Felice Beato and Baron Raimund von
Stillfried- Western photography in Japan 1863-1885
Female Bodies, Female images, East-Asian Studies dept., Yale University,
New Haven, CT April 2000
The Mimic man: Morimura
Yasumasa's Olympia, Marilyn Monroe and Sylvia Kristel, and the question
of Trans-cultural/trans-generic identity; Dislocating the West and
the Rest Conference, Goldsmiths College, University of London,
June 1999
Curatorial
and Research Projects
Jan-Mar. 2009, The
Art of Anime Project, a series of weekly screening of cutting-edge state-of-the-art
anime collections, including an animation installation by Tabaimo, at
Stanford University
May 2008, Takano
Ryudai, artist talk and presentation at Stanford University, supported
by a grant from SiCA, and KALA Art institute, Berkeley.
Sep. 2007, HyperMonochrome,
co-curator with Ryosuke Kondoh, Slade School of Fine Art
Sep. 2005-Jan. 2006,
PostGender: Gender, Sexuality and Performativity in Contemporary Japanese
Art, Tikotin Museum of Japanese art, Haifa, Israel 10
Sep. 2005 – 3 Jan. 2006 www.hms.org.il/postgender
June 2002, Blue-and-White
in Ink: ink painting in Israel, Curator, Museum of Far Eastern Art,
Ramat Gan, Israel
March 2002, Feminine
Images, International Women’s Month, Sorasky library Art Gallery, Tel
Aviv University
June 2001, Camera
Obscura art school, Digital Media dept. Graduate Degree show, Museum
of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
2001, Research Assistant,
Cultos project of Multimedia Knowledge Management Tools for Culture
and Arts. The project was co-funded by the European Commission under
the IST (Information Society Technologies) Programme. The research was
held at the Porter institute of Semiotics and Poetics, Tel Aviv University.
Head Researcher: Prof. Ziva Ben-Porat http://www.cultos.org/
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/
Series,
Conference and Panel organization
Panel Organizer,
Trandscultural Pictures: Contemporary Photography in NE
Asia, 10th East-Asian studies conference in Jerusalem, May 25-6,
2011
Panel Organizer, Transcultural Visuality: Photography in East-Asia,
panel accepted for CAA 99th conference in New York, Feb. 9-12, 2011
Films series, The Art of Anime: Contemporary Anime films from Japan,
Holon Cinemateque, 2010-2011
Panel organizer,
Fact or Fiction? Contemplating the image in Japanese Culture, in 8th
Conference of East-Asian Studies in Israel, Tel Aviv University, 3-4
June, 2009
Films series, The
Art of Anime: Contemporary Anime films from Japan, Stanford University,
Winter quarter, 2009
Conference organizer,
PostGender: Gender, Sexuality and performativity in Japanese Culture
Tikotin Museum
of Japanese Art, Haifa, Israel. 8-9 December, 2005
Leading panel titled:
SuperFlat[ter]Land, Research Spaces Conference, Bartlett school of Architecture
& Slade school of Fine Art, UCL, London 14-18 Nov. 2005
Exhibitions
Selection of One-Person-Shows
| Dec. |
2011 |
Six Characters in Search of an Author, Photographic Project, Haifa
University Library Gallery |
| Oct. |
2010 |
Camouflaged Installation
project, at Orit Haviv Studio Gallery, Tel Aviv |
June
|
2007
|
Multifocality,
multimedia installation, Woburn square research space, London,
UK |
Nov.
|
2004
|
Camouflaged
Video Installation, Slade Gallery, London, UK |
Apr.
|
2004
|
Palimpsests
Contemporary ink palimpsests, WLS, London, UK |
| June |
2002 |
Wandering
Jew Paintings, The Other Gallery, Talpiot Academy, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Apr. |
2001 |
Sub-consciousness
Opens like a Fan Museum of Contemporary art, Beijing, PR China |
| Mar. |
2001 |
Apfelsine
a video installation at Peer, the Gallery of Midrasha art school
in Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Nov. |
2000 |
Quarantine
a video installation at the Heinrich Boel Foundation, Tel Aviv,
Israel |
| June |
1997 |
Screenscapes
digital prints, Wizo-canada art school, Haifa, Israel |
| Apr. |
1997 |
Hybrid
video installation with Wang Bosheng, Camera Obscura gallery,
Tel-Aviv, Israel |
| Apr. |
1996 |
Windshields,
Wipers and T.V. Screens September Gallery, Beijing, PR China |
| July |
1993 |
Ping-pong
tables and suitcase paintings, Museum of Israeli art, Ramat Gan,
Israel |
| Mar. |
1993 |
Letter
to a Japanese Friend, Ink paintings & digital prints, Chelouche
gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Oct. |
1990 |
Mongolian
Spot (monguban), large woodblocks, Chelouche gallery, Tel Aviv,
Israel |
| Dec. |
1986 |
Paintings
One person show, “Bograshov” gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel |
Selection
of Group Shows
Sep. |
2010 |
72
hours project, Bat Yam Biennale for Landscape Architecture |
Jan.
|
2009 |
KALA
Open Studio Day, Jan. 31st, 2009 |
| Jan.
|
2009 |
Camouflaged
in: Front + Centre, Headlands Centre of the Arts, San Francisco,
CA |
Dec. |
2008 |
KALA
annual exhibition, KALA studios, Berkeley, CA |
Nov. |
2008 |
Shifting
Currents: A tribute to Asian/American/ Art & Cultural expressions,
1900 to the
present, De Young Museum of Fine Art, San Francisco, CA |
Nov. |
2008 |
Zhuang
Zi and the Butterfly and My oranges, Video projection in Balancing
Perspectives: East-Asian influences in Contemporary Art, JFK University
Gallery, Berkeley, CA |
May |
2008 |
Love
me or Leave Me, video projection in: Intervene! Interfere! Sidewalk
video screenings, UC Santa Cruz, ICA San Jose, CA |
Sep. |
2006 |
Zhuang
Zi and the Butterfly and My oranges, Video projection in: Routes
& Remedies: Asian Wisdom for Living in London, Asia House,
London, Sep. 2006 |
Feb. |
2006 |
Book
of Hours Video installation, Wilfred Israel Museum of Art, Kibbutz
Ha'Zorea, Israel |
Nov. |
2005 |
Dead
Sea, Video Installation, Research Spaces, Bartlett school
of Architecture & Slade school of Fine Art, London, UK |
Sep.
|
2004 |
Round
Trip, a video installation in 3 chapters in: Dislocating Specificity,
Bartlett school of Architecture & Slade school of Fine Art,
London, UK |
Apr.
|
2003
|
Fire;
Robot; Camouflagea trilogy of video projections
LUX Open 2003, a DNET New British Artists' Film and Video,
RCA, London , UK |
Nov.
|
2002 |
The
Land of Sad Oranges, a video projection The Israeli Show
at International Artist Museum, New York, NY, USA; MONA, Rochester,
NY, USA; Museum of Modern Art, Krakow, Poland |
Nov. |
2002 |
Zhuang
Zi and the Butterfly, a video projection Paradise the
Video Biennale, Herzelia Museum, Israel |
Oct. |
2002 |
Border
Fence, a video projection
Global Priority Jamaica Art Centre, Queens, New York,
NY, USA |
Oct. |
2002 |
Water
scroll and Windscreens, ink paintings
Seascape/Home Sweet Home a video projection
Water Pictures Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel |
Sep.
|
2002 |
Land
of Sad Oranges, Video projection
25 Years of Activity Janco-Dada Museum Ein Hod, Israel |
June |
2002 |
Graffiti,
ink paintings
Ha’amini Yom Yavo (Believe the Day will come)
Municipal Gallery, Um al Phahem, Israel |
Nov.
|
2001 |
Bedfast,
Video installation
Aspects of Femininity Video Art show , Yank-Dada Museum,
Ein Hod Israel |
Apr.
|
2001 |
Graffiti,
ink paintings
Artexts, Jamaica center of Arts & learning, New York,
NY, USA |
Jan. |
2001 |
Graffiti,
ink paintings
The Right of Return Beit-Ha’am Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel |
Dec. |
1998 |
Hands
Fan ink drawing
Touching the Light, Touching the Water Israel Museum,
Jerusalem, Israel |
June |
1996 |
Voyeur;
Blinds; Circle ink drawings
East Winds influence of Zen art in Israeli context
Bat Yam museum of fine art Rehovot, municipal gallery Arad museum,
Israel |
Feb. |
1996 |
Wipers
and Windscreens Blue ink on paper drawings
Blue and White, Binet gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel |
May |
1994 |
P.C
I am a West Asian digital project
Context/Location Kalisher art college gallery , Israel |
June |
1992 |
A
letter to a Japanese friend woodcut on plywood
Art Teachers show Kalisher, art college gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel |
June |
1991 |
Woodcuts
series 1988-1990
Israel art month, Israel Festival at the Israel Theatre, Israel |
May |
1991 |
Wandering
Jew and Flying Dutchman woodcut and painting on plywood Leaves,
group show, artists house, Jerusalem, Israel |
June
|
1987 |
Ancient
Poolswoodcut and paintings on plywood
America-Israel foundation for the young artist museum of Israeli
art, Ramat Gan, Israel |
Residencies
Dec. 2007- Aug.
2009 KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
Section
of Public and Private Collections
Ha’aretz Daily News
Paper Collection, Mr. Amos Shocken, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Fan Museum, Greenwich, London
Museum of
Israeli Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
Various private
collections in Israel and the UK
Languages
Hebrew
– Mother tongue
English – Mother tongue level. Wrote a PhD at the University
of London, taught graduate courses at Stanford University
Japanese – very good, professional knowledge of art
specific terminology
Chinese (Mandarin) – very good, professional knowledge
of art specific terminology
French – Good, mostly reading ability
Arabic (Palestinian) – good spoken
level
Hobby
Jazz singing,
swimming. |
