グローバルアートプラクティスGlobal Art Practice

国際的な視点に立って、現代社会における芸術の社会的実践を考え、行動していく人材の育成を目指しスタートしたグローバル・アート・プラクティス（GAP）も、今年度4期生の修了を迎えることとなりました。
世界から集まった10名の留学生を含む21名の学生は、多種多様な背景と様々な興味を持ち、それぞれの専門性を深めるために日々学んできました。
GAPで行われる多彩なプログラムは、それぞれが実験的であり、挑戦的です。海外美術大学との共同授業では、初めて出会う教員や学生からの刺激を受け、時に迷い苦悩しながら自身の価値観と表現を高めていこうとしていました。学生同士がグループ活動を通して協働したり、国際的に活躍するアーティストから制作のアドバイスを受けたりしながら、学生たちはそれぞれに自分自身を厳しく見つめ直す時間を持ちました。
GAPでのそれぞれの経験は、すぐに目に見える形で作品に昇華されるのかは分かりません。しかし、今、修了に向け制作に励む学生たちの姿を見る中で、明らかに成長し未来に向けて進んでいこうとするエネルギーを感じます。ぜひこの機会に学生たちの姿をご覧頂き、将来への期待を高めていただければ幸いです。

Global Art Practice (GAP) debuted in 2016 as part of the Graduate School of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts. The core goal of these studies is to train and inspire students to use international perspectives to conceive and implement social practices within the domain of contemporary fine arts. The students represented in this year’s exhibition are the fourth class to complete the program.
There are twenty-one students in the 2020 GAP class, including ten from abroad. Hailing from a diverse range of backgrounds and interests, these students have tirelessly devoted their time and energies to pursuing expertise in their respective fields of specialization.
All of the many unique programs GAP offers are experimental and challenging in nature. This perspective extends to classes conducted jointly with overseas colleges of fine arts in which our students received welcome stimulation from instructors and fellow students they were encountering for the first time. While they occasionally wandered and struggled during their journeys, they constantly strived to raise their own sense of worth and powers of expression.
Our students worked through group activities to advance collaborative endeavors, and received advice from artists excelling on the global scene about the best way to prepare their creations. It gave them an opportunity to keenly consider and reexamine themselves.
It is difficult to state whether the experiences our students had while learning in GAP will soon be channeled into artistic works and formats readily visible to the eye. Seeing the hard work they have devoted to preparing their works for this exhibition, however, I distinctly sensed the growth and impressive energy in them needed to forge fruitful paths.
On this occasion, therefore, please keep such thoughts in mind as you view the works of this talented group of global-minded artists. I hope their creations will heighten your expectations for their future progress.