Throughout the summer The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s Gendai Gallery will be running the exhibit The Arts of Togetherness, a multifaceted exhibition that gently challenges commonly held assumptions about contemporary art as a cultural practice. Guest curator Milena Placentile, seeks to bridge differences in familiarity with contemporary art by encouraging audiences of all ages to contemplate what qualifies as the expression of a community, and what is pertinent to definitions of cultural life.
Featured artists, Sandee Moore and Yoshinori Niwa, will transpose popular traditional and modern Japanese cultural activities such as sentō (traditional bathhouses) and kite-flying, into new contexts in order to explore notions of interpersonal exchange and community, memory and imagination, and the passage of ideas over time.
Through the course of this exhibition, audiences will be invited to consider how traditions facilitate interpersonal communication and construct harmonious accord.
The Arts of Togetherness opens on Saturday, July 11th and runs until the weekend of the Shinsedai Cinema Festival, so for all of you who will be at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre and might have some spare time between screenings make sure to check it out. For more information on the exhibit and the Gendai Gallery’s hours of operation please visit their website.
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