Creative East–West cosmopolitanism? The changing role of international mobility for young Japanese contemporary artists

摘要

As with other facets of social change, innovation and creativity explored in this volume -- such as science and technology, cuisine, youth culture, gender identities -- the rise of distinctive new contemporary art from East Asia offers possibilities for exploring the interaction of the local, the national, the regional and the global, in a particular field of cultural producution and from new world perspectives. My chapter offers another angle on the "making and unmaking of transnationalism in East Asia", by considering the cross-border dynamics of Japanese modern and contemporary art -- and particularly the international mobility of artists -- as a part of an Asian led cultural globalization (...).