This assignment will test your ability to present on a specific subject of your choice (LO1), analyze it and provide interpretations (LO2) together with critical insights (LO3); at the same time you will prove your ability to conduct some research on a chosen topic and present it in a professional manner (LO4).

-Why did you choose the artwork/artist?
-Provide a brief intro of artist, cultural context
-Conduct a visual analysis, what is your critical interpretation?
-Which ideas/concept does your chosen artwork raise? How is it relevant at a local and regional level? How does it connect to other relevant ideas/notions of contemporary art?
-Mention at least one academic reading that helped you understanding the specific artwork you discussed

READINGS:
-Yamamoto, Hiroki ‘Socially engaged art in postcolonial Japan: an alternative view of contemporary Japanese art,’ World art, 2020, pp.1-23
-The Enigma of Japanese Contemporary Art, in Art and Social Change, pp 385-430; 46 pages
-East Asia http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/geography/geo_whatis.html