What Was the Artistic Director Selection Committee That Chose Tsuda Daisuke? Questions About the Aichi Triennale and Japan’s Art Universities

Published on August 20, 2019. Based on the Wikipedia entry on Tsuda Daisuke and the composition of the artistic director selection committee for the Aichi Triennale, this article raises questions about those involved in the selection, especially Tatehata Akira, president of Kyoto City University of Arts, and criticizes those who call themselves artists while acting as agents of China and the Korean Peninsula.

August 20, 2019.
The selection was made by recommendation after two rounds of discussion in the artistic director selection committee, composed of seven members: Igarashi Taro, Kasuya Akiko, Tatehata Akira, Nakai Yasuyuki, Fujikawa Satoshi, Mizuno Mikako, and Minato Chihiro.
The following is from Wikipedia.
There must be many people who read this and were astonished.
Tsuda Daisuke, born November 15, 1973, is a professor with a fixed term at the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences of Waseda University, president and representative director of Neologue, Inc., and representative director of the Internet Users Association.
He also concurrently serves as visiting professor at the Faculty of Information Technology and Social Sciences of Osaka University of Economics, forum committee member of the Asahi Shimbun Company, and special editorial committee member of the Niigata Nippo.
He has served as specially appointed professor at the Faculty of Informatics of Kansai University, visiting professor in the Department of Literary Arts in the Faculty of Art and Design at Kyoto University of Art and Design, part-time lecturer at the Tokyo Institute of Technology Liberal Arts Center, member of the NetRunner editorial department, part-time lecturer in the Department of Journalism at the Faculty of Humanities of Sophia University, and so on.
He is from Takinogawa, Kita Ward, Tokyo.
His father Kimio was an activist of the Socialist Association faction and also served as secretary to Takazawa Torao, vice chairman of the Japan Socialist Party, now the Social Democratic Party.
In Shimbun Akahata, he stated that reading Akahata when he was a junior high school student became the trigger for his becoming a “writer.”
He has said that during his time at Tokyo Metropolitan Kitazono High School, because it had a free school culture with no uniforms or school rules, he stopped attending classes halfway through and played games with friends in a club room.
He belonged to multiple clubs, including band activities, and stated that the newspaper club, which he ran with one other companion, was the origin of what he is today.
He looked back and said that the 20,000 to 30,000 yen in newspaper advertising revenue for each newspaper issue, and the annual 300,000 yen budget from the school, were used for eating and drinking by the club members.
Because he had not been attending classes, he failed all his university entrance examinations while still in high school and became a ronin student.
After one year of preparatory school life, he passed the entrance examinations for Waseda University’s School of Social Sciences and Meiji University’s School of Political Science and Economics, and chose Waseda University.
In job hunting, he hoped to work for a publishing company, but was rejected in every interview, and after graduation he began working as a writer as a part-time employee at a computer-related editorial production company.
He established a company in 1999.
In 2019, he was selected as artistic director of the Aichi Triennale, which has been held every three years since 2010.
The selection was made by recommendation after two rounds of discussion in the artistic director selection committee, composed of seven members: Igarashi Taro, Kasuya Akiko, Tatehata Akira, Nakai Yasuyuki, Fujikawa Satoshi, Mizuno Mikako, and Minato Chihiro.
However, under the title “After ‘Freedom of Expression?’,” controversy arose because the exhibition included a statue of a girl closely resembling a comfort-woman statue created by a Korean artist, a work titled “Picture to Be Burned” in which a photograph thought to be of Emperor Showa was burned, and a work titled “Grave of Stupid Japanese” using a Hinomaru flag on which members of the Special Attack Corps had written messages, and after only three days the entire special exhibition section was removed.
Among the above, while clicking and thinking that the people who selected this man, like those who make a living by setting up offices in Geneva, Switzerland, and engaging in activities that demean Japan, were all people whom the great majority of Japanese do not know at all, there was just one person about whom I thought, surely that cannot be.
It was Tatehata Akira.
The reason is that he is the president of Kyoto City University of Arts.
That is because I have always regarded this university as one of Japan’s finest art universities, on a par with Tokyo University of the Arts.
Needless to say, it is a university from which many distinguished painters have graduated and with which many have been connected.
If the president of that university makes such a selection, then surely the world is coming to an end.
If today’s Kyoto City University of Arts is a university influenced by such a president, then its students should promptly abandon the idea of aiming to become artists, which is by no means an easy path, and instead change course to become people who work for the world and for others, and who make Japan even richer and stronger.
The reason is that it is outrageous for leftist childish-disease patients to claim to be artists and become agents of China and the Korean Peninsula, and it is a desecration of art.

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