LOVE,
PEACE,
DREAMS,
and BOMBS.
Love, Peace, Dreams, and Bombs presents Yumiko Glover’s recent artwork and talks created for this event by A. Colin Raymond, Carl Gabrielson, Sabine Frühstück, and Travis Seifman, combined with video interviews of all five members by Naoya Matsushima.
This project was born of everyday interactions among friends and colleagues. We are artists, scholars, and activists, and each of us engages in different disciplinary approaches to and conversations with Japanese culture and society. In Yumiko Glover’s art, however, we found a point at which our distinct interests in history, identity, media, globalization, theory, and politics overlap. By exploring these connections, we came to see that our works, when presented together, offer the audience more than what each of us could supply alone. The end result is Love, Peace, Dreams, and Bombs, an experiment in collaborative expression which—through art, scholarship, and activism—promotes more complex and globally-situated understandings of “Japan.”
This project was born of everyday interactions among friends and colleagues. We are artists, scholars, and activists, and each of us engages in different disciplinary approaches to and conversations with Japanese culture and society. In Yumiko Glover’s art, however, we found a point at which our distinct interests in history, identity, media, globalization, theory, and politics overlap. By exploring these connections, we came to see that our works, when presented together, offer the audience more than what each of us could supply alone. The end result is Love, Peace, Dreams, and Bombs, an experiment in collaborative expression which—through art, scholarship, and activism—promotes more complex and globally-situated understandings of “Japan.”
© 2017 Love, Peace, Dreams, and Bombs.