Weekly readings and resources—UPDATED!!
All the readings for the course are available below though you are encouraged to purchase or borrow a copy of Yu Miri’s Tokyo Ueno Station from the library or the bookstore.
Most links will open a new page and allow you to download a pdf. Please let me know if any links don’t work for you!
No reading for WEEK1 but here are some suggested readings if you are interested in further background and context to our discussion today. We’re looking at the 3 Tokyo Olympics and ways Tokyo has been mapped and archived.
Recent Olympic Background (more to come in later sections!)
Sam Holden, “Tokyo’s Catastrophe Games, Los Angeles Review of Books, August 8, 2021 (Overview of the impact of the 2020/21 Olympics) (online)
Mapping Youth Social Movements in Tokyo
Sharon Hayashi, “From Exploitation to Playful Exploits: The Rise of Collectives and the Redefinition of Labor, Life and Representation in Neoliberal Japan” (pdf)
Ueno Toshiya, “Dancing in spite of Politics”
Robin ODay, “Differentiating SEALDS from Freeters and Precariats: The Politics of Youth Movements in Contemporary Japan”
Fujihata Masaki—Augmented Reality+GPS work
Ryszard W. Kluszczynski, “Monument as Archive: Artistic Strategies from Anti- to Meta-Memorial” (More about Fujihata Masaki’s amazing cartographic AR work)(pdf)
Fujihata Masaki, Shibuya AR (Augmented Reality) Tour with Hagiwara Sakumi 2014 (video)
Fujihata Masaki, Voices of Aliveness 2012 (video)
Fujihata Masaki, BE HERE Augmented Reality Public Art Project in HK (website)
Fujihata Masaki, BE HERE/1942 (2022)(video)
WEEK 1 SEPT 7 DISORIENTATION
WEEK 2 SEPT 14 CREATIVE PRACTICE ETHNOGRAPHIES
This week we’ll look at Creative Practice Ethnography as a methodology and some examples including Keitai Mizu by Larissa Hjorth and two Tokyo Olympic Projects by the collective Port B led by artistic director Takayama Akira
Larissa Hjorth et al, “Understanding Mapping,” in Creative Practice Ethnographies (Creative Practice Methodologies +Keitai Mizu project) (pdf)
Peter Eckersall, “Tour Performance ‘Tokyo/Olympics’: Digging the High Times of the 1960s” in Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Issue 23, January 2010 (Port B/Takayama Akira Tokyo Olympic Project) (online)
WEEK 3 SEPT 21 BRAINSTORMING MINNEAPOLIS WATER PROJECT—OUR CONTRIBUTIONS
We’ll brainstorm possibilities for our Minneapolis Water Sound Map concentrating on the area above. Share your relationship to water in Minneapolis (not limited to the area of the map).
Optional Activities and places to explore IRL and online:
Free Tour of St Anthony Falls Visitor Center, 1 Portland Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55401 on 11am or 2pm on Fri Sept Sept 16, Sat Sept 17, Sun Sept 18, Fri Sept 23, Sat Sept 24, Sun Sept 25. Meeting place is tent stall at the south end of Stone Arch Bridge. Look for a Park Ranger.
Friends of the Falls and Native American Community Development Institute are working on returning Native voices and communities to the Falls area and revisioning the future of the area
Mill City Museum-–Please get a receipt for your admission fee for reimbursement. Who and What does this historical narrative include? Exclude? How is it transmitted to you? For those who can (re)visit the museum, listen to the 26min sound installation Cloudy Waters by Mona Smith in the free public courtyard. You can also listen to it online.
Minneapolis Riverfront Walking Tour Sept 17, 10:30am. Mill City Museum, 704 S 2nd St. Please get a receipt for the $14 tour for reimbursement (Sold out but if you got a ticket pls let me know).
Water Works Park for stormwater use and flushing toilets! Branded storymap of the Park area (pdf)
Water Works Pavilion 425 West River Parkway next door houses the Indigenous Restaurant Owamni featured in the New Yorker.
Water Power Park —204 Main St SE Minneapolis. Interpretive exhibits along the .7 miles of trails including Father Hennepin Bluff Park 420 Main St SE
Mill Ruins Park—102 Portland Ave S. Mill Ruins Park Quest (pdf)
Gold Medal Park—2nd St and 11th Ave South, Minneapolis. In the middle there is a 32ft burial mound —a nod to Indian Mounds Park St Paul
Bohemian Flats Park—2150 West River Parkway. Some Bohemian Flats history, Evictions at the Bohemian Flats, UMN student led exhibition on the Bohemian Flats
Friends of the Mississippi River—nonNative organization with links to Indigenous Organizations. Write to the River Project including love letters, maps, prose, and poetry
More than human actors? Plants, “invasive” creatures? Freshwater Mussels, Manoomin (wild rice),
Background Reading (some essays are from: Open Rivers)
Navigating Indigenous Futures with the Mississippi River (pdf) including a Virtual Reality Canoe experience project
St Anthony Falls Lock Walk, Mississippi National River and Recreation Area
First Came the River, Mississippi National River and Recreation Area
Smith, Mona M. 2016. “Owámniyomni, a Dakota Name for ‘St. Anthony Falls’” Open Rivers: Rethinking The Mississippi, no. 4.
Smith, Mona. 2018. “Learning from the Dakota: Water and Place.” Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community, no. 11.
Villiard, Moira, and Laurie Moberg. 2021. “On Madweyaashkaa: Waves Can Be Heard with Moira Villiard.” Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community, no. 18. (Projections on the St Anthony Locks)
Dorothy, Olivia. 2018. “An Endangered River: The Mississippi River Gorge.” Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community, no. 11.
WEEK 4 SEPT 28 RESEARCH, INITIAL DISCUSSION OF MATERIALS
WEEK 5 OCT 5 FIELD RECORDINGS? INTERVIEWS, WHAT NEEDS TO BE MAPPED?
Amazing ideas on the googledoc everyone! Let’s try to craft/distill some short stories/text for particular places/relations on our map above for seminar this week. And of course if your place exceeds the physical/digital map we can make a connection to a place on our Week 3 map above. Research is iterative so going to a place and listening, writing, researching may be a cyclical nonlinear process that is different for each of us. In class we’ll spend some time editing stories/text, listening to sound recordings that you’ve been able to do so far and recording some of our stories/thoughts/observations with the recorders. If we can have some sound/stories ready to upload for Elina’s workshop next week the soundwalk may come more into focus/range. Especially as we think about how we want to connect water, place, relations, temporality, surfaces, bridges. For points on the soundmapping app we can upload small photos for each point so feel free to post/link some photos in the googledoc.
Also this Sat Oct 8, 1-5pm is the Owamni Falling Water Festival at Owami and Mill Ruins Park—A great chance to record some sound—hope to see you there! Here’s the flyer.
WEEK 6 OCT 12 MAPPING TOKYO OLYMPICS 3.0 SENSORY ARCHIVES+ SOUND MAPPING WITH ELINA LEX
Mapping Tokyo Olympics 3.0 collaborator Elina Lex will be guiding us through making a soundmap with ECHOES.
Please download ECHOES interactive soundswalks App on your phone and set up a free account:
https://echoes.xyz/echoes-creative-apps
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/echoes-interactive-sound-walks/id1021511722 (iphone)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.echoes.android (android)
For Week 6 Oct 12-Throw up a draft of your site specific stories/text/poems on the googledoc along with recorded or to-be-recorded sounds so that we can offer feedback/add/collectively edit and also figure out what’s missing, what overlaps and how they all connect. Let’s try to record some of the texts so we can upload with Elina on Wed. Also please start adding to the Intro/Framing Concepts in the googledoc that will be introduced to the walkshop participants before the walk. Please bring earphones/ear buds, your phone and if convenient, a laptop.
Some Resources:
Sensory Map examples from Shannon Mattern (Browse through these sensory maps before seminar to get a sense of various approaches/projects)
WEEK 7 OCT 19 NO CLASS—OPTIONAL NACIS WORKSHOP on SAT OCT 22
For Week 7 Oct 19 -We will NOT be meeting during class time. Please let me know if you would like to join the conference Sound Walk on Sat 22 starting 9am! For those joining the tour please let me know in advance. Try to arrive a little early. After a brief presentation in the the Rock Island room of the The Depot Renaissance Hotel (225 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55401) we’ll head outside. Bring your phone and earphones.
I’m testing locations on the ECHOES sound map so these may change over the next couple days but you can use this link to find our ECHOES which is still in process and not yet public on the ECHOES app: https://explore.echoes.xyz/collections/vAyQPBQZKuUTjc4o
The NACIS North American Cartographic Information Society Annual Meeting is in Minneapolis this year from Oct 19-22.
Join our Saturday morning Art and Cartography workshop/walkshop at 9am and check out the schedule for the rest of the conference!
WEEK 8 OCT 26 TRAFFIC, TORCHES AND THE OLYMPIC ROAD MOVIE
The view from the road—juxtaposing excerpts of the iconic 1964 Tokyo Olympiad by Ichikawa Kon and Tsuchimoto Noriaki’s On the Road documentary of taxi drivers leading up to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. We’ll be watching clips of the films in class—the entire films are available on youtube online below.
Also for those interested in Adachi Masao, Hirasawa Go will be interviewing him, translation by Julian Ross on Sat 9am. You can register for the online event at
collabjapan.org/events/2022/masao-adachi-talk
Films:
Ichikawa Kon, Tokyo Olympiad 1965 (youtube)
Tsuchimoto Noriaki, On the Road 1964 (youtube)
Readings:
Igarashi, Yoshikuni. “From the Anti-Security Treaty Movement to the Tokyo Olympics: Transforming the Body, the Metropolis, and Memory,” in Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945-1970 pp 131-163 (pdf, also in U of Minn library online) [focus on pp143-163]
Suttmeier, Bruce. “On the Road in Olympic Era Tokyo” in Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps, pp210-213. (pdf)
Further Viewing: Chimpom, Black of Death Project and Black of Death video
WEEK 9 NOV 2 SUBTRACTION AND DEMOLITION
Tokyo as it is remade and reimagined around the 1940, 1964 and 2020/1 Olympics
Reading:
Sandra Collins, “The Spectacle of Olympic Tokyo and Imperial Japan,” in 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics: Japan, The Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement, Routledge 2007 (pdf)
Keller Easterling Subtraction (pdf and online in U of Minn library)
Isozaki Arata, City Demolition Industry Inc 1962 (Short Story by architect )(pdf)
Further Reading/Reference:
“Tokyo Bay-A Planning Frenzy” in Project Japan Metabolism Talks (pdf)
WEEK 10 NOV 9 OCCUPATIONS + PARKS
Reading:
Yoshimi Shunya, “1964 Tokyo Olympics as Post-war,” International Journal of Japanese Sociology 2019, no. 28, pp80-95 (pdf)
Christian Dimmer, “Miyashita Park, Tokyo: Contested Visions of Public Space in Contemporary Urban Japan” in City Unsilenced (York Lib downloaded) in Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy Edited ByJeffrey Hou, Sabine Knierbein (pdf)
Further Reading/Resources:
Carl Cassegard, “Public Space in Recent Japanese Political Thought and Activism: From the Rivers and Lakes to Miyashita Park,” in Japanese Studies 31:3, 405-422 Pdf)
Love Kindstrand, “Ghosts Against Nike-fication: Representation and Ritual in Tokyo’s Miyashita Park” (online)
A.I.R. (Artist in Residence) Miyashita Park (website)
Thomas Havens, Parkscapes: Green Spaces in Modern Japan (U of Minn Library)
WEEK 11 NOV 16 LABOR AND MIGRATION 1964/2020
Takayama Akira’s installation Babel: The City and Its Towers, 2016, interviews with Olympic laborers in 1964 and 2020 considered alongside Zainichi writer Yu Miri’s novel Tokyo Ueno Station.
Reading:
Yu Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station (copies of the novel are available through library and bookstore and in a pinch here)
Reference:
Kobayashi, Erika. Trinity, Trinity, Trinity translated by Brian Bergstrom (not in the library but available for purchase here)
Kunimoto Namiko, “Olympic Disssent: Art, Politics and the Tokyo Olympic Games of 1964 and 2020” (pdf and online)
WEEK 12 NOV 23 NONSYNCHRONOUS ONLINE
WEEK 13 NOV 30 DISPLACEMENT/MOBILITY/EVACUATION
Cultures of the unhoused intersect with The Complete Manual of Evacuation
Reading:
Carl Cassegard, “Space, Art and Homelessness: Public Space, Counter-Space and No Man’s Land,” in Youth Movements, Trauma and Alternative Space in Contemporary Japan, 117-179 (pdf-if this is not working for you please download from U of Minn Library)
Abe Kobo, The Box Man (excerpt)
Background Reading:
Takayama Akira, “Evacuating Theater” pp 247-253 (Interview about The Complete Manual of Evacuation project, second section of same pdf)
Soma Chiaki, “Gestus of Hinan (Evacuation): The Originations and Transformations of The Complete Manual of Evacuation-Tokyo” (last essay in pdf)
Anne Allison, “From Lifelong to Liquid Japan,” and “Ordinary Refugeeism: Poverty, Precarity, Youth,” and the bibliographic notes for two chapters in Precarious Japan, 21-42 and 43-76
WEEK 14 DEC 7 LOCAL/GLOBAL ANTI-OLYMPICS MOVEMENT
The increasingly global network of Anti-Olympic Protesters held a Summit and tour of Disaster Venues in Tokyo in 2019. The third Tokyo Olympics has come and gone but the networks remain.
Reading:
Jules Boykoff, “The 2020 Tokyo Games and the End of Olympic History,” in Capitalism Nature Socialism 2020, Vol 31, No 2, 1-19.
William Andrews, “Playful Protest and Contested Urban Space,” (pdf or online)
Further Reading:
Jules Boykoff “ Introduction,” “EndGames,” in NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Megasports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond, 1-8 and 130-157.