For the Creative Reconstruction: Vision Formulation 1, 6h Session, Kenji Yanobe, the contemporary artist, was invited to give a talk titled, “A Passionate Account of My Works”.
He gave a very powerful speech, talking about when, as a child, he saw the empty site of Expo ’70 Osaka and felt that anything could be created from this vacant lot, and that since art is about being free, we should do whatever we want to. In mentioning his works involving major incidents and disasters in Japan and in the world, he gave us some food for thought about the relationship between art and society. (Akagi)