Tokyo University of the Arts /Taipei National University of the Arts Exchange Artists+ Program

Event Title: Tokyo University of the Arts /Taipei National University of the Arts Exchange Artists+ Program
Event Dates: 6/11（四）- 6/14（日）10:00-17:00
Venue: 1 1/2 studio of Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, TNUA

In this residency project, the artist, Yahada Aki reinterpret the Neijingtu (Chart of the Inner Landscape)*—a traditional Chinese diagram of the body—as a framework for thinking about contemporary ecological relationships between humans and bears.

This approach emerged from Aki’s sense that changes in the environment and changes within the human body are deeply interconnected. In the Neijingtu, the human body is depicted as a landscape. In this work, Aki reimagine the city, the satoyama (the transitional zone between human settlements and the mountains), and the deep mountains inhabited by bears as parts of a single body, reconstructing them as a Bear-Human Neijingtu.

One of the most fascinating aspects of this project has been discovering how East Asian medical thought offers alternative ways of understanding bear behavior. For example, what is often interpreted as increasing bear aggression can instead be viewed as part of a larger process of restoring balance between yin and yang, or as a symptom of imbalance within the mountain ecosystem itself.

For More Information:
https://kdmofa.tnua.edu.tw/mod/course/index.php?REQUEST_ID=e82ed5fc895d26c647025690a5eb7e39f419e83750fe53f39ddc4c000e7262b7
https://t2ea.art
https://yahataaki.asia/