The Nasubi Gallery Junior online interactive activity is designed for secondary school students to explore and think critically about the display and interpretation of contemporary art.
The activity encourages students to contemplate contemporary artists’ practices and explore new art forms that exist on the internet.
Students can download a template, print and construct a Nasubi Gallery Junior. The students can display their Nasubi Gallery around their school and send in photographs for possible display on the APT5 website.
Plan your tour and download a copy of the Changing Art Museum Tour. This tour focuses on the New Nasubi Gallery Project display in APT5. It covers five artists in the exhibition. The tour includes information, curriculum activities and discussion points to engage students’ exploration of the works presented in APT5.
It is recommended that teachers bring their students to the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art to see the Nasubi Galleries created by APT5 artists. Viewing the works enables students to consider the size and scale of the Nasubi Gallery, which has been referred to as the ‘smallest gallery in the world’.1
Extend students’ interaction with the Nasubi Gallery project to include other works presented by the participating artists in APT5 at the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art.
Ask students to consider the display and types of objects featured in the Nasubi Galleries. For example: How do the objects chosen relate to each of artists’ work in APT5?
1. Ozawa Tsuyoshi, Answer with Yes and No! [exhibition catalogue], Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 2004, p.48.
Tsuyoshi Ozawa provides insight into the Nasubi Gallery project in the QuickTime video. View this video as a class and follow up with some of these questions:
Why did Tsuyoshi Ozawa create the Nasubi Gallery? What ideas does he want us to think about?
Do the confines of the small space restrict what can be made? Does it present any challenges?
What are some of the techniques or objects that artists use to create their Nasubi Galleries?
Once students have created their own Nasubi Gallery, encourage them to reflect upon the experience, in relation to the above questions.
VISUAL ARTS TECHNOLOGY
Students reflect upon the functions and purposes of Tsuyoshi Ozawa’s Nasubi Gallery and its display in public and community contexts.
Students translate and interpret ideas through media manipulation to invent their own
Nasubi Galleries, and consider the role of personal style in composing images and objects.
Students work to the limitations of selected materials, media and technologies and experiment with their intrinsic qualities to create a Nasubi Gallery.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
More information on Tsuyoshi Ozawa’s Nasubi Gallery project for the ‘5th Asia-Pacific Triennial’ is available for your reference:
APT5 website
APT5 Education Resource Kit
APT5 catalogue
information on APT5 artist Tsuyoshi Ozawa
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