Lecture by Yuki Okumura: “Parasite the White Cube: The Productivity of the Empty Space”

Lecturer:
Yuki Okumura (Artist)

Moderator:
Futoshi Hoshino (University of Tokyo/EAA)

Date: Friday, June 20, 2025
Time: 19:30 – 21:00 (JST)
Venue: Online (Zoom)
Language: Japanese (with English also available for discussion)
Organized by: East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts, the University of Tokyo (EAA)

Registration required:
https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/meeting/register/LmPUPeE0R3GNYq0x1tTIDQ

Yuki Okumura is an artist born in 1978 in Aomori, Japan. Informed by his own experience as a translator, Okumura’s work questions identity, individuality, and egocentrism by exploring language, memory, and chance, developing a new approach to the legacies of conceptual art, institutional critique, and action painting. Recently, his solo exhibition Yuki Okumura was held in the historical white cube on the ground floor of the Secession, Vienna, which included Big White Playground, a group exhibition featuring site-specific works made by various workers of the institution through his workshop on the spot. Recent solo exhibitions include 136 Locations – 956 Intersections, 20 Albert Road, Glasgow, 2024 (organized by Cento) and The Man Who, An Ephemeral Archive, Keio University Art Center, Tokyo, 2019. Recent group exhibitions include Unguided Tour, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, 2025; u – New Project Spaces, Kunsthalle Zurich Backrooms, 2024; Aichi Triennale 2022, Aichi Arts Center, Aichi, 2022; and Landslide to be lived off and/or tongues to be deadpan, MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo, 2021.