TAISUKE KARASAWA
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- ・Transdisciplinary Arts Theory
- ・Applied Transdisciplinary Arts: Theory
- ・Transdisciplinary Arts Seminar
- ・Production Skills Workshop I, II, III
- ・Guided Research I, II (Master’s Program)
- ・Transdisciplinary Arts Research: Theory I, II
- ・Guided Research I, II, III (Doctoral Program)
Profile
Born 1978. Bachelor’s (Letters) from Keio University, with a Master’s and Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Waseda University. After teaching in Waseda’s Faculty of Social Sciences, Assoc. Prof. Karasawa served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures of Ryukoku University (Kyoto), before joining AUA in 2019. He specializes in philosophy and cultural anthropology, specifically the fundamental ways in which mankind constructs customs, beliefs and cultures, based on the thought of Japanese intellectual Kumagusu Minakata (1867-1941). Recently his research has concentrated on comparative studies of Minakata and artistic thought, as well as the modernistic potential of Kegon Buddhist thought. In addition, he philosophically thinks about slime molds that Minakata was studying, and is developing them into art.
Research
activities
【Single-author books】
2020
‘Ura-Nihon’ bunka-ron: Kan-nihonkai no bunka, shinkō, and shizen [The Cultural Theory of ‘Opposite’ Japanese Culture: It’s Culture, Faith, and Nature]. Nu-su publishing.
2015
Minakata Kumagusu: Nihonjin no kanousei no kyokugen [Minakata Kumagusu: The Ultimate Possibility of the Japanese]. Chuokoron-shinsha
2014
Minakata Kumagusu no mita yume: passage ni tatsu mono [Kumagusu Minakata’s Dreams: The Man Standing on the Passage]. Bensei. (The 13th Yasuo Yuasa Book Prize, 2019)
【Co-author】
2024
Minakata Kumagusu to Okamoto Tarō: Chi no kyokuhoku wo koete [Minakata Kumagusu and Okamoto Tarō: Beyond the Far-end of Intelligence] (with ISHII Takumi). Ibunsha, Tokyo.
2011
‘Ura-Nihon’ bunka renaissance [Renaissance of the ‘Opposite’ Japanese Culture] (with Masahide Ishizuka, Yutaka Kudo and Iori Ishikawa). Shakaihyoronsha
【Papers】
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【Special talks and lectures】
2024
Nenkin no naka no daiucyū: Kumagusu no gensetsu wo haikei to shita art heno tenkai [Macrocosms in Slime Mold: Development of Slime Mold’s Art based on Kumagusu’s Discourses]. Kumagusu, Nenkin, sosite Art he [Kumagusu, Nenkin, and Art]. Minakata Kumagusu Museum, Wakayama.
2023
Nenkin, Knit, Uzu [Slime mold, Knit, Vortex]. Chihiro Hasunuma and Taisuke Karasawa. The 10th-anniversary exhibition of Akita University of Art: Akibi-jū-nen, spin-off project. Akita City Cultural Creation Center, Akita.
2022
Fukugo-Geijyutsu to seisei sareru ‘aida’ ni tsuite [About Transdisciplinary art and the creation of ‘betweenness’]. Conference on Transdisciplinary Arts 2022: Trans/Trance-disciplinary Art. Graduate School of Transdisciplinary Arts, Graduate School of Transdisciplinary Arts, Akita University of Art.
2020
Minakata Kumagusu no yume-kenkyu [Minakata Kumagusu’s dream research]. Association of Jungian Analysts, Japan (AJAJ) Seminar 156. Co-op Inn Kyoto, Kyoto.
2017-18
Kumagusu to art [Kumagusu and art]. reading club vol. 2 (reading club series). KYOTO ART HOSTEL kumagusuku, Kyoto.
2015
Kumagusu: Yume ni tsuite [Kumagusu: About his dreams]. THE BOX OF MEMORY (FUJIMOTO Yukio exhibition). KYOTO ART HOSTEL kumagusuku, Kyoto.
2021-2025
［Activity log］ Cosmographia vol.1-5. Research Club for Slime Mold, Akita University of Art, 2022. Akita University of Art.
2024
［Art work］〈Nenkin-nebuta〉 (with Research Club for Slime Mold, Akita University of Art). Special exhibition Minakata Kumagusu to Nenkin Art Sakuhin [Kumagusu Minakata and Slime Mold Art Work]. Minakata Kumagusu Museum, Wakayama.
2023
［Art work］ 〈NENKIN!!!!〉 (with Research Club for Slime Mold, Akita University of Art). The 10th-anniversary exhibition of Akita University of Art: Akibi-jū-nen. Akita City Cultural Creation Center, Akita.
2022
［Art work］ 〈Mijikahokori wo totonoeru〉 (with Research Club for Slime Mold, Akita University of Art). Special exhibition. Nichijyō wo totonoeru. Hajimari art center, Fukushima.
2021
［Art work］ The booth of Research Club for Slime Mold, Akita University of Art. rooms 43: Creation Festival in Tokyo. H. P. FRANCE, Tokyo.
2019-2021
［Research associate］ Special exhibition ARTS & ROUTES: Awai wo tadoru tabi. Akita University of Art and Arts Center Akita, Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita.
2018
［Interviewee］ Taiyō no tō [Tower of the Sun] (feature documentary film; dir. SEKINE Kōsai). Parco, Spoon, Tokyo.
2017-2018
［Academic research support］Nō no naka no mori: Minakata Kumagusu no hakken [A section of forest of the brain: Kumagusu Minakata’s discovery method]. Wild: Untamed Mind. 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo.
‘Ura-Nihon’ bunka renaissance [Renaissance of the ‘Opposite’ Japanese Culture] (co-author; 2011)
Minakata Kumagusu: Nihonjin no kanousei no kyokugen [Minakata Kumagusu: The Ultimate Possibility of the Japanese] (2015)
Minakata Kumagusu no mita yume: passage ni tatsu mono [Dreams that Minakata Kumagusu Saw: The Man Standing on the Passage] (2014)
‘Ura-Nihon’ bunka-ron: Kan-nihonkai no bunka, shinkō, and shizen [The Cultural Theory of ‘Opposite’ Japanese Culture: It’s Culture, Faith, and Nature] (2020)
Minakata Kumagusu to Okamoto Tarō: Chi no kyokuhoku wo koete [Minakata Kumagusu and Okamoto Tarō: Beyond the Far-end of Intelligence] (co-author, 2024)
Cosmographia vol.1-5 (supervisor, 2021-2025)