TNUA President Prof. Chen Kai-Huang visited the Tokyo University of the Arts on July 19, meeting with Tokyo Geidai President Prof. Kazuki Sawa in talks about collaboration and exchange between the two sides.

 

Accompanying Prof. Chen to the visit were Prof. Lin Hong-John, director of the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (KdMoFA), and Prof. Wu Dai-Rong from the Graduate Institute of Arts and Humanities Education.

 

The TNUA delegation also attended and delivered speeches at “The Postcolonial Urban Experience” forum held at Tokyo Geidai on July 22.

 

Prof. Chen pointed out during his meeting with Prof. Sawa that TNUA and Tokyo Geidai became sister schools in 2009, and since then both sides have worked together in various fields including music, fine arts, animation art, new media art and film.

 

In recent, collaboration between the two schools has been particularly close and frequent in the fields of music and fine arts, Prof. noted. Tokyo Geidai’s teachers and students have been invited to give workshops and master lectures at TNUA for many times, and the sister school has also sent performers to take part in the Kuandu Arts Festival for many times, Prof. Chen said.

 

Prof. Sawa expressed the hope that the two schools, apart from the regular activities they have been regularly holding, can increase exchange in the field of music. 

 

During their four-day visit, the visitors from TNUA were shown around the Tokyo Geidai campus by Prof. Kumakura Sumiko and Prof. Sumitomo Fumihiko.

 

“The Postcolonial Urban Experience” forum featured presentations from the TNUA professors and reported the outcome of fieldwork by students from Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong and Japan.

 

Caption: TNUA President Prof. Chen Kai-Huang (third from left) and Tokyo University of the Arts President Prof. Kazuki Sawa (third from right) pose for a picture with others during a visit to Tokyo Geidai. The others in the picture are: Prof. Kumakura Sumiko and Prof. Sumitomo Fumihiko from Tokyo Geidai; and Prof. Lin Hong-John and Prof. Wu Dai-Rong from TNUA.