21 November 2023 - 21 November 2023
2:00PM - 6:00PM
Durham Oriental Museum, Elvet Hill, Durham, DH1 3TH
Free to attend
Join us for an afternoon workshop exploring the Durham Oriental Museum's collection of Japanese Anime materials. Our international panel will discuss how these artefacts are curated, displayed and researched, along with the diverse meanings and value of these objects, both within and beyond Japanese culture. Sponsors: The British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) and the DAIWA Anglo-Japanese Foundation. Hosted by Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC)
Anime – or the lineage of cel-animation that emerged in post-war Japan along with the medium of television – is today one of the most successful Japanese cultural exports and a rare example of non-Western media with a truly global audience. As anime acquires new followers worldwide and its production artefacts become objects of collection by fans, museums and cultural institutions, the question of archiving, preserving and exhibiting such materials has emerged as a new matter of concern in Japan and beyond.
Celebrating the small collection of anime materials held at the Durham University Oriental Museum, this event will bring together researchers, practitioners, curators, artists and fans to interrogate the shifting meaning of such collections and what different methods and approaches to production materials can bring to the study of animation ‘away from the screen’.
21st November, 2023, 2-6pm