They will be screening five videos made by students of the Department of Asian Studies at the Faculty of Arts, which each, in their own way, deal with the symbolism of animals in East Asian art, using individual East Asian objects held in Slovenian museums as examples.
The screening will be accompanied by a panel discussion Animal Symbolism in East Asian Art. The panel will include Helena Motoh, PhD, (ZRS Koper), Chikako Shigemori Bučar, PhD, (Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts), Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik, PhD, (Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts), Nataša Visočnik Gerželj, PhD, (Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts), and students from the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts: Sabrina Japelj, Pia Kos and Vida Krevc.
At 16:00, the workshop Painting Hand Fans with East Asian Animal Motifs will start at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum and bring the experience of East Asian brush painting on an empty fan.
You are cordially invited!
Photo: Wooden statuettes of the Taoist deity Luxing, Maritime Museum “Sergej Mašera” Piran
Project coordinator: Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik, PhD, Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts