Conversation: Hito Steyerl×Trevor Paglen

Date

May 25 (Sat), 2024

Time

14:00 - 15:30  (13:30 door open)

Venue

The National Art Center, Tokyo, 3F Auditorium

For who

All

How to Participate

Numbered tickets will be distributed from 10:00 at the Information Counter (1F).

Capacity

Limited to 200

Admission

Free admission for Universal / Remote exhibition ticket holders.
Please present the ticket (or ticket stub) at the check-in counter.

Organized by

The National Art Center, Tokyo

Remarks

*Time and content may change without prior notice.
*English-Japanese simultaneous interpretation available. 
*Recording or photography of this event is not permitted.
*The video recording of this event will be available online at a later date.
*Please note that photo documentation of this event may be published for the purpose of our activity reports and publicity.

This program is a conversation between two artists, Hito Steyerl (Germany) and Trevor Paglen (USA), who are both part of the "Universal/Remote" exhibition.

Steyerl and Paglen have created works that explore various social phenomena through images. Continuing the conversation held at the Centre Pompidou in 2018, the artists will introduce their recent works and discuss images and technology in a post-pandemic world.

*The conversation from the Centre Pompidou in 2018 is included in the "Universal / Remote" exhibition catalogue.

Hito Steyerl

Photo by Leon Kahane

Born in Munich, Germany in 1966. Lives and works in Berlin. She studied documentary film at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image and the University of Television and Film Munich. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2003. Among her solo exhibitions are Hito Steyerl: The City of Broken Windows (Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, 2023) and Hito Steyerl: A Sea of Data (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Koea, Seoul, 2022). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Hello World―For the Post-Human Age (Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Japan, 2018). Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War, published in 2017, was translated into Japanese in 2021. She has been on Art Review's “Power 100” list since 2013 and topped in 2017.

Trevor Paglen

Photo by Axel Dupeux

Born in Maryland, USA in 1974. Lives and works in New York and Berlin. He holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. Among his solo exhibitions are Trevor Paglen: Hide the Real. Show the False (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, 2023) and Trevor Paglen: You've Just Been F*cked by PSYOPS (Pace Gallery, New York, 2023). He has been participating in Don't Follow the Wind, a group exhibition that opened in 2015 in the exclusion zone surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan. He was also awarded the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize (South Korea, 2018) and MacArthur Fellowship (USA, 2017).

The video recording of this event will be available online at a later date.

• Universal / Remote