Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 2227
E-Mail:	t.kondo@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	International Institute Asian Studies
Office Address:	IIAS Rapenburg 59 2311 GJ Leiden
Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 2079
E-Mail:	t.kondo@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, SAS Japan
Office Address:	Johan Huizingagebouw Doelensteeg 16 2311 VL Leiden Room number 0.11b
Personal Homepage:	hum.leiden.edu/​lias/​organisation/​phd-asian/​kondot.html

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Fields of interest

• Japanese contemporary art
• (Global/World) art history
• Postcolonial theory
• Cultural translation

PhD research

Japanese Contemporary Art: Translating Art, Culture, and Nation in the Age of Globalization
Supervisor: Chris Goto-Jones

Since the late 1980s and acceleratedly in the 1990s, exhibitions on contemporary art from so-called non-Western countries have widely held in the international venues. Japan was also in its party. This development on the tide of globalization, particularly into the art market, would be no surprise, but what is striking is that the contemporary visual productions seem to be circumscribed ever since based on their “origination,” for example, within the uniform genre of “Japanese contemporary art” – irrespective of where artists are educated or residing and in spite of transcultural quality in their works without indications of obviously visible “Japanese-ness” – seemingly as a label not only to differentiate from (Western) contemporary art, but also to hierarchize in the global art order wherein contemporary art “originating” from the West takes the highest position. It proves inertness of the art criticism and art theory in the age of globalization merely engaging the same habitual – Eurocentric – manner as how the discipline of Art History has always dealt with so-called non-Western art(ifact) based on geographical distance and cultural/aesthetical differences. While inquiring critically into this cultural imaginations succeeded into art critical discourses in the age of globalization as a point of departure, she intends to explore the possibility of multiple and subversive reading of “Japanese contemporary art,” in order to seek the possibility of knowledge production of the hybrid “other.”

CV

Education

• 2009: Summer School "Objects on the Move - Circulation, Social Practice and Transcultural Intersections," The Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe, University of Heidelberg
• 2007: M.A. Cum Laude, Onderzoeksmaster Kunstwetenschappen / Research Master Art Studies, University of Amsterdam
• 2005: M.A., Art History (specialization in Modern and Contemporary Art), University of Amsterdam
• 1997-1998: Dutch language course, Leiden University
• 1995-1996: Art Management, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
• 1995: M.F.A., Visual Design, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
• 1992: B.F.A., Applied Art, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan

Teaching

BA seminar on "Representations of Japan in Contemporary Media," Leiden University (2009)