Kimono Style in Modern Japan

 

I'm very happy to be participating in this exhibition and informal talk on Sunday 9th February. From the programme:

  Speakers and topics include:

·         Official Opening, introduction to and brief history of the kimono

Barbara Hartley, University of Tasmania

·         Indigo Garments and Garments from a Country at War

Jan Ochi, Wafu-Works, Kingston

·         Kimono Undergarments and Women Re-claiming Kimono

Sheila Cliffe, Jumonji University, Saitama

·         Dressing in Kimono

Minako Stewart, Bujinkan Tasmania Dojo

 The exhibition is in conjunction with a conference on 'Technologies of Gender: Shaping Women's Bodies through Kimono and Costume in Post-Meiji Japan.'  being held on the  10th - 11th  Feb by the University of Tasmania and the Japan Foundation. This is open to the public and there is no cost.  Please let me know if you would like to attend.

Conference Program

                       Monday, February 10, 2014

Venue: Room 312, UTAS Sandy Bay Campus

Time	Name/Event	Topic
9.00-9.30	Coffee and croissant
Panel 1	Technology, Costume and Visual Imagery 1
9.30-10.00	Rio OTOMO, Japan Institute of the Moving Image	Working Women on the Silver Screen: In Search for Monpe Eroticism
10.00-10.30	Andrea GERMER, Kyushu University	A Visual Chronopolitics of Dress in Wartime Japan
10.30-11.00	Michael FURMANOVSKY, Ryukoku University, Kyoto	Yearning for Yôfuku: Women’s Fashion Culture in pre-War Japan as Precursor of the post-War Clothing Revolution
11.00-11.30	Morning Tea
Panel 2	Japanese Techno-Dress Goes Global
11.30-12.00	Sheila CLIFFE, Jumonji University, Saitama	Gender and the Kimono
12.00-12.30	Emerald KING, Victoria University, Wellington, N.Z.	More than Meets the Eye: Cosplay and Technology
12.30-1.00	Olivia MEEHAN, Australian National University	A Body of Work: Isogawa Akira, Second-hand Obi and Vintage Kimono Fabric in Contemporary Australia
1.00-2.00	LUNCH
Panel 3	Technology, Costume and Visual Imagery 2
2.00-2.30	Vera MACKIE, University of Woollongong	Taisho Bohemia: Transnational Style in the Tokyo Art World
2.30-3.00	Helen KILPATRICK, University of Woollongong	Technology, Nature and Costumery in the Illustrated Literature of Awa Naoko (1943–1993)
3.00-3.30	INUI Yoshiko, Tokai University, Sapporo	War Images in Japanese Modern Kimono
3.30-4.00	Afternoon Tea
Panel 3 cont.	Costume and Visual Imagery 2
3.30 – 4.00	Barbara HARTLEY, University of Tasmania	Technology, Textile and Tone: Subverting Hegemonic Desire and the Images of Takehisa Yumeji
4.00-5.00/5.30	Post-graduate workshop	Content and participants to be advised

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Venue: Room 312, Sandy Bay Campus

8.45-9.15	Coffee and croissant
Panel 4	Technology Meets Weaving, Decoration and Costume
9.15-9.30	Formal Opening	Speaker TBC
9.30-10.00	Carol Hayes, Australian National University	Sashiko Needlework Reborn: From Functional Technology to Decorative Art
10.00-10.30	Tomoko Aoyama, University of Queensland	Akaiko and Arachne: The Techne of Weaving
10.30-10.45	Brief coffee break (refreshments provided)
10.45-11.15	Yasuko Claremont, University of Sydney	The Impact of Western Technology on Women’s Clothing and Bodies in post-Meiji Japan
11.15-11.45	Jenny Scott, Shujitsu University, Okayama, Japan	The Representation of Women Through Kyogen Costume
11.45-12.15	Summing up then move to lunch
12.30-1.30/2.00	Lunch (Lazenby’s, Sandy Bay Campus)	All participants Continue summing up and “where to from here.”