InsideOutburst with Mr. NEGRI
<MULTITUDE SYMPOSIUM>
- Dates and Hours
- 13:00 - 21:00, Saturday, March 29th, 2008
- 10:00 - 21:00, Sunday, March 30th, 2008
- Venue
- Ueno campus of Tokyo National University of Arts and Music
- Admission
- free
- Inquiries
- 050.5525.2606 / info(at)negritokyo.org
- Tokyo National University of Arts and Music, 12-8, Ueno Park, Taito ku, Tokyo, 110-8714
- Organizers
- Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Inter Media Art course, Oil Painting course, Musical Creativity and Environment course, Graduate School of Film and New Media.
- Co-organizers
- International House of Japan / Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
- Support
- Japan Airlines (JAL)
- Access
- 10 minutes walk from Ueno Station( JR, Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, Hibiya Line)
First Spring Storm: InsideOutburst with Mr. Negri - Invitation
KOBATA Kazue, Professor, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
Who is Antonio Negri? Born in Italy, now in his mid 70’s, a philosopher, a researcher of Spinoza, and imprisoned, then lived in exile in France. In 2000, he transformed the outlook of the world by a book “Empire,” he co-authored with Michael Hardt. They definitely showed the emergence of globalization and networking, its power of transcending the obsolete units that have constituted the present world, namely the fixed notions of nation-states and territories. They also warned about its possibilities and dangers to humanity; made a break through the dogma of modern democracy, capitalism and Marxism, and enhanced the bouyant feelings, free, light and lively, for everybody to think about the meaning of his/her existence in the surrounding reality. Negri hammered out and orchestrated the tempo of life and politics for the Multitude, the countless anonymous beings—the way we think, talk and act.
Mr. Negri is coming to Japan for the first time. Let’s welcome him in our own modus operandi of the Multitude. No boundaries between inside or outside of universities, and with lively wisdom and real meaning. A get together of activists, artists, consumers, thinkers, adventurers…everybody. Discuss together life and politics. Our focus will be giving rise to a common field (architecture), witnessing and imagining (film), body, memory and sympathy (performance and music), skills and creativity (art). There will also be events and exhibitions regarding medical care and arts.
Thanks to Mr. Negri we have learned and will learn a lot about philosophy and ways of thinking, and we gained knowledge, humor, and courage. In return, let’s tell him what’s happening here in Japan and around—–actual and concrete activities, emerging new phenomena, and the essential sensibilities that are prevailing more rapidly and widely. Let’s tell and have a dialogue with him about them ! Not only in words, not only through arts, we shall be in direct touch with this visitor from afar. SEE HIM and FEEL HIS VIBE as a real person, as a living body, close with us.
It is also a precious opportunity for us to meet up. To meet and talk with those we cannot meet otherwise. A real encounter, body and soul, not on the net nor virtual. Will it be a field where this side and the other side will be mixed without boundaries? Can we enhance and deepen our own mind and body to such a liberated level?
We have a premonition that something profound will happen for us to be tuned in with the earth and humanity on quite a new level. Follow this organizer’s optimism and come together. It will happen at the same time as the nearby Ueno Park will be waving to and fro with cherry blossom parties, and just before new students join the universities. On the weekend of March 29th and 30th, we shall be looking forward to seeing you, aliens as well as friends, the Multitude.
