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Join us for a hands-on dorodango-making workshop and conversation between artist TT Takemoto and cultural studies scholar Eve Oishi in conjunction with the exhibition TT Takemoto: Remembering in the Absence of Memory, on view at the Cantor Arts Center from June 19 through December 1, 2024. RSVP here.We will begin the evening with a demonstration by Takemoto on the Japanese art form of dorodango, where earth and water are combined, molded, and polished to create delicate, shiny spheres. Come get your hands dirty and try out molding these balls with us out of earth collected on the Stanford campus. Collectively, we will continue to polish these spheres over the course of the evening while Takemoto and Oishi are in discussion.
The Cantor’s current exhibition includes two of Takemoto’s video works along with a number of handcrafted objects made as part of the series “Gentleman’s Gaman” (2009–23). A striking display of handcrafted kokeshi dolls in glass and clay–the latter made with dorodango heads–anchors the exhibition. This series evokes arts and crafts made by Japanese Americans in U.S. internment camps during World War II. In doing so, the work examines how handcraft–and making do with available materials one finds while away from home–can offer a means of personal expression and a way to cope with traumatic experiences and histories.
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328 Lomita Dr, Stanford, CA, United States, California 94305
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