HIRAKURA Kei

Affiliation

Faculty of Urban Innovation, Division of Urban Innovation

Job Title

Associate Professor

Date of Birth

1977

Research Fields, Keywords

Philosophy of Art, Perception, Animal, Aesthetics, Culture and Representation

Mail Address

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Education 【 display / non-display

  • 2003.4
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    2009.7

    The University of Tokyo   Interdisciplinary Information Studies   Doctor Course   Completed

  • 2000.4
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    2003.3

    The University of Tokyo   Interdisciplinary Information Studies   Master Course   Completed

  • 1996.4
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    2000.3

    International Christian University   Division of Humanities   Graduated

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  • Doctor of Interdisciplinary Information Studies - The University of Tokyo

  • Master of Interdisciplinary Information Studies - The University of Tokyo

Campus Career 【 display / non-display

  • 2015.4
     
     

    Duty   Yokohama National UniversityFaculty of Urban Innovation   Division of Urban Innovation   Associate Professor  

  • 2011.4
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    2015.3

    Duty   Yokohama National UniversityCollege of Education and Human Sciences   Associate Professor  

  • 2010.4
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    2011.3

    Duty   Yokohama National UniversityCollege of Education and Human Sciences   Lecturer  

  • 2021.4
     
     

    Concurrently   Yokohama National UniversityInterfaculty Graduate School of Innovative and Practical Studies   Associate Professor  

  • 2017.4
     
     

    Concurrently   Yokohama National UniversityCollege of Urban Sciences   Department of Urban and Social Collaboration   Associate Professor  

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External Career 【 display / non-display

  • 2023.4
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    2024.3

    Victoria University of Wellington   School of Languages and Cultures   Researcher  

  • 2022.4
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    2023.3

    Musashino Art University   Aesthetics and Art History   Lecturer  

  • 2020.4
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    2022.3

    International Research Center for Japanese Studies   Researcher  

  • 2015.6
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    2018.7

    Tokyo University of the Arts   Faculty of Fine Arts   Lecturer  

  • 2014.9
     
     

    Okayama University   Faculty of Letters   Lecturer  

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Academic Society Affiliations 【 display / non-display

  • 2017.6
     
     
     

    Japanese Society for Dance Research

  • 2016.6
     
     
     

    The Japanese Society for Aesthetics

  • 2005.11
     
     
     

    表象文化論学会

Research Areas 【 display / non-display

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Aesthetics and art studies

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Theory of art practice

  • Humanities & Social Sciences / Philosophy and ethics

 

Research Career 【 display / non-display

  • Affective Figures: Embodied Power of Art

    Project Year: 2019.4 - 2025.3

  • Art as Extended Mind-Body: Analysis on Embodied Process of Thinking in Art Making

    Project Year: 2014.4 - 2018.3

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Review Papers 【 display / non-display

  • ニュージーランド公立小の"自由で刺激的"な日常:移民大国で根付く「ダイバーシティ教育」の実際

    鳥羽和久, 平倉圭

    東洋経済オンライン   2025.1

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    Language:Japanese   Publishing type:Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (trade magazine, newspaper, online media)   Single Work  

  • What Makes Us Want to Make Things from Scratch?

    ( 227 )   72 - 79   2024.8

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    Language:Japanese   Publishing type:Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (trade magazine, newspaper, online media)   Single Work  

  • Earthmoving, expression, and doubling

    HIRAKUR Kei

    Reciprocal units within Art and Urbanism 2020-2022 Document Book A   38 - 41   2023.3

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    Language:Japanese   Publishing type:Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (other)   Single Work  

  • Continuously Flowing Thoughts and Trials. What is the next form of the group that "explores"? RAU Director's Roundtable DiscussionContinuously Flowing Thoughts and Trials. What is the next form of the group that "explores"? RAU Director's Roundtable Discussion, 12 January 2023

    Teppei Fujiwara, Kei Hirakura, Sho Miyake

    Reciprocal units within Art and Urbanism 2020-2022 Document Book B   54 - 73   2023.3

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  • To Start looking at Bonnard, Landscape in Provence (1932).

    HIRAKURA Kei

    Newsletter of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo   ( 637 )   10 - 13   2023.3

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    Language:Japanese   Publishing type:Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (other)   Publisher:The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo   Single Work  

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Works 【 display / non-display

  • Dance as Chisel

    KAMIMURA Megumi, HIRAKURA Kei, TSUDA Michiko

    2019.3 - 2019.4

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    Work type:Artistic work   Location:Mori Art Museum  

  • Traverser la route

    SHINODA Chiharu, HIRAKURA Kei, et al.

    2018.5

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    Work type:Artistic work   Location:Institut français du Japon - Tokyo  

  • Building a cave

    SHINODA Chiharu, Yokohama Architectural and Urban Studies F, HIRAKURA Kei, FUJIWARA Teppei

    2018.3

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    Work type:Artistic work   Location:BankART Studio NYK 2F  

  • Mapping to Diagrammatic Explanation ("Moving Pictures of Thought")

    HIRAKURA Kei

    2016.5

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    Work type:Artistic work   Location:3331 Arts Chiyoda  

    A Poster on Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, mapping the way of helicopter shooting.

  • Folding Different Species

    Kei HIRAKURA, Takuya INABA , Yuya KOYAMA , Tomomi SANO , Hiroko TANABE , Yui NAKAMURA , Hiroki+h YAMAMOTO , Kenichiro WATANABE

    2016.1

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    Work type:Artistic work   Location:blanClass  

    Exploring the art of folding different species -- human and nonhuman -- to look for and embody the different ways of life. Exhibition and Performance by the participants of the workshop: Thinking outside Body, Folding Different Species organized by Kei Hirakura.

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Awards 【 display / non-display

  • The Association for Studies of Culture and Representation Award

    2011.7   The Association for Studies of Culture and Representation   Godard's Method(s), Inscript, 2010.

    Individual or group name of awards:HIRAKURA, Kei

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Presentations 【 display / non-display

  • Cleaving Left and Right: Arakawa / Gins / Takiguchi

    HIRAKURA Kei  [Invited]

    Papier Plié 02: Shūzō Takiguchi and Shusaku Arakawa / Madeline Gins - Letters, or Margins and Blanks  Keio University Art Center

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    Event date: 2024.12

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:Keio University  

  • Diagramming Ghosts: The Use of Movements-Images-Words in the Film For Example by Arakawa and Gins

    HIRAKURA Kei

    AGxKANSAI 2022 Art and Philosophy in the 22nd Century After ARAKAWA+GINS  2022.3  Studies of the Architectural Body Research Group at the Institute of Oriental and Occidental Studies, Kansai University

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    Event date: 2022.3

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto, Japan   Country:Japan  

  • Dancing with other species: Typography in Miyazawa Kenji's "Annelid Dancer"

    Hirakura Kei

    Avidya on a Spider's Web: Toward the Future of the Somatic Experience under the Ecology of Social Network System  International Research Center for Japanese Studies

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    Event date: 2020.9

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (general)  

    Venue:Zoom  

  • Mussels, worms, and typography

    HIRAKURA Kei  [Invited]

    Making with Nonhuman Beings  Tama Art University Art Studies

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    Event date: 2019.9

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:Tama Art University  

  • Animality and Rhythm in Merce Cunningham's "Nature Studies": On Beach Birds for Camera (Animality and Rhythm in Merce Cunningham's "Nature Studies": On Beach Birds for Camera (1991)

    HIRAKURA Kei  [Invited]

    Symposium and Roundtable for the Centenary of Merce Cunningham's Birth  Japanese Society for Dance Research

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    Event date: 2018.9

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:Waseda University  

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Past of Collaboration and Commissioned Research 【 display / non-display

  • Avidya on a Spider's Web: Toward the Future of the Somatic Experience under the Ecology of Social Network System

    Offer organization: International Research Center for Japanese Studies   International Cooperative Research  

    Project Year: 2020.4  -  2021.3 

 

Charge of on-campus class subject 【 display / non-display

  • 2025   Advanced Theory of Moving Image

    Graduate School of Urban Innovation

  • 2025   Contemporary Art Theory Ⅱ

    Interfaculty Graduate School of Innovative and Practical Studies

  • 2025   Contemporary Art Theory Ⅰ

    Interfaculty Graduate School of Innovative and Practical Studies

  • 2025   Art and Culture

    Graduate School of Urban Innovation

  • 2025   Contemporary Art Theory

    Graduate School of Urban Innovation

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Charge of off-campus class subject 【 display / non-display

  • 芸術学講義

  • 表象文化論入門

  • 欧米映画史2

  • 形の宇宙誌

  • メディア研究

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Committee Memberships 【 display / non-display

  • OPEN SITE 7, Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS)

    2022.4 - 2023.3  Jury

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    Committee type:Municipal 

  • The Awards of the Association for Studies of Culture and Representation

    2021.4 - 2023.3  Selection committee member

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    Committee type:Academic society 

  • Artist in Residence Program, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre

    2019.3  Guest judge

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    Committee type:Other 

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  • まだ言葉のない芸術への批評はいかに可能か 清水知子 × 平倉圭

    Role(s): Guest, Commentator

    伊藤道史  ./MYTH.YOU  2025.3

  • 他なる映画のからだたち 濱口竜介+砂連尾理+平倉圭

    Role(s): Guest, Commentator

    éditions azert, アテネ・フランセ文化センター  2024.7

  • 福尾匠×平倉圭トークイベント 眼を逸らさなければ書けない

    Role(s): Guest, Commentator

    代官山蔦屋書店, 河出書房新社  2024.7

  • 山内朋樹『庭のかたちが生まれるとき』『デレク・ジャーマンの庭』W刊行記念 山内朋樹&平倉圭&鳥羽和久トーク

    Role(s): Guest, Commentator

    とらきつね  2024.5

  • Gestures of the Land: Films by RAU + Sho Miyake

    Role(s): Planner

    Reciprocal units within Art and Urbanism, Yokohama National University  Cinema Jack & Betty  2022.12

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