Peacock Associates is Scotland’s first fully-funded Curatorial Fellowship for visual arts.

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Naoko Mabon was commissioned by LUX Scotland to write a piece reflecting on On Sharing, Separations, an evening event between artist Tako Taal and curator Seán Elder. The event was held last November at W OR M of Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen, as part of LUX Scotland’s pilot programme of events in Aberdeen, supported by Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Funding Programme.

Thank you LUX Scotland, Tako and Sean for this wonderful opportunity.
To read Naoko’s piece please click here.

Naoko Mabon contributed a writing piece on a Japanese sculptor Bushiro Mohri (1923-2004) for the website of JAPAN Quality magazine.

Warmest thanks go to Akane Nakamori, JAPAN Quality, Asuka Mohri, Masaki Yanagihara, Sachiko Yanagihara, Ryouhei Yanagihara, Coelacanth – Bushiro Mohri Memorial Museum, Concept Space, Satoshi Mouri, and Leslie Mabon.

To read the piece, please click here.

Thanks to the generous support and advice from the Sculptor Yutaka Toyota and Osamu Matsuo of Bunkyo, we just delivered work by Takanori Suga A Blank Sign “Dripping Project in São Paulo” to the Sports Center Kokushikan Daigaku in São Roque of São Paulo. Thank you so much to all the people who gave us warm support and advice towards the production, storage – and future re-installing. We very much look forward to seeing this piece in the near future.

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Mabon will share findings from her recent residency in São Paulo in Guests @ Gray’s, lecture series with invited professionals in art, design and culture at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen on 13th October. She will then invite Coordinators of Überbau_house – Jorge Sepúlveda T. (Independent Curator and Critic, from Chile) and Guillermina Bustos (Artist and Independent Researcher, from Argentina) – to talk about their activities as autonomous initiative in Latin American contemporary art field.

Guests @ Gray’s
‘Residency Report: one-month contemporary art research residency at Überbau_house in São Paulo, Brazil’
Friday 13th October 2017, 1-2pm
Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
Speaker: Naoko Mabon (guest speakers over Skype: Jorge Sepúlveda T. and Guillermina Bustos of Überbau_house)

Please visit Mabon’s daily photo report during her residency here: one-month-in-sao-paulo.tumblr.com

Naoko Mabon will conduct a one-month research residency at Überbau_house in São Paulo from 31st August to 28th September 2017.

Follow Mabon’s daily photo report here: one-month-in-sao-paulo.tumblr.com

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We are happy to announce that copies of Ilana Halperin’s ‘Geologic Intimacy (Yu no Hana)’ are now stocked at The Fruitmarket Gallery Bookshop in Edinburgh and Aye-Aye Books in CCA, Glasgow.

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A writing piece Leaves Without Routes: 根も葉も無い by Naoko Mabon is included in the latest issue of Cha, the first Hong Kong-based English online literary journal founded in 2007 as part of a programme at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Our warmest thanks go to: everyone at Cha, Tammy Ho, Prof Kyoko Yoshida, Yasunori Kawamatsu, Yuki Okumura, Kaori Yamashita, Nobuyuki Yamamoto, I-Chern Lai, Yu Hua Chen, Keting Kurt Chen, Wei-hsiu Wu, Taipei Botanical Garden, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Japan–Taiwan Exchange Association, Prof Kenji Horigome, MISAKO & ROSEN, Dr Leslie Mabon, among others.

Click here to view the text by Naoko.

For more on the exhibition Leaves Without Routes: 根も葉も無い, please click here.

Naoko Mabon is invited to give a talk at Sanki Bunko. She will share her view towards curatorial practices based on her recent, on-going and upcoming international projects.

Sanki Bunko is a private library of more than 20,000 books collected by an art critic/historian Prof Hitoshi Mori. In this beautiful Taisho era Kanazawa Machiya building situated by the Asano River in Kanazawa, artist Akane Nakamori (Suisei-Art) together with Prof Mori is curating a number of international art/cultural programmes.

EVENT DETAILS
Curator’s Talk Vol.1: Naoko Mabon
Sunday 24 April 2016, 3-5pm
Sanki Bunko (5-27, Sakura-machi, Kanazawa 920-0923 Japan)
Free, all welcome
For more information please visit Sanki Bunko website

Naoko Mabon is invited to give a lecture at Guests @ Gray’s, a regular lecture series from invited professionals in art, design and culture at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen.

Naoko will share her view and approach to work as an independent curator in Aberdeen, a city to which she is foreign, based on her experience and perspective through her recent, on-going and upcoming curatorial practices in the city, region, nation or beyond.

EVENT DETAILS
Friday 26th February 2016 at 1.00pm
Lecture Theatre SB42
Garthdee House Annexe, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen
Open to all
For more information please click here

Naoko Mabon has been invited to contribute to Roger Ackling: Between the Lines, the first comprehensive overview of the work and teaching of the late British artist Roger Ackling (1947–2014). Edited by Emma Kalkhoven, published by Occasional Papers.

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Two solo exhibitions by one of the most celebrated Japanese artists Tatsuo Kawaguchi will be held at Sankibunko in Kanazawa and Coelacanth – Bushiro Mohri Memorial Museum in Toyama in Japan at the same time from 23 Oct – 16 Nov 2015.

To coincide with the showcases, a new Japanese-English bilingual exhibition catalogue will be published – for which Naoko Mabon is a part of the production team as a translator.

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Naoko Mabon has been invited to a talk event as part of RINKOU-KAKU PROJECT 2015.

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As a liaison, WAGON has been helping the Fukuoka Dance Fringe Festival organiser to collaborate with a Scottish designer Karen Mabon for their eighth festival PR design. And here we are!

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