Tokyo as a Creative City

Yoshitaka Mouri (Associate Professor of Media Department of Musical Creativity and the Environment Tokyo University of the Arts / Sociologist)

Over the last twenty years, the geographical center of Tokyo’s art scene has moved. Whereas in the past museums and galleries were concentrated along an axis that runs between Ueno and Ginza (also Shibuya and Aoyama), with the opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Mori Art Museum and National Art Center, Tokyo, together with a change in gallery owners, it now spreads out from Roppongi and is scattered across the north-east. This is a result of the development of a creative city in response to globalization and the evolution of art itself. I will discuss these changes in the city, the transformation of art, and the relationship with its accompanying social inclusion/exclusion.

Language: Japanese
Recording date: January 24th, 2013 (Thurs)