Suddenly This Overview: Artist & Curator Talk
Presented by Kosuke Nagata & Tomoya Iwata
May 2, 2026
Join artist Kosuke Nagata and curator Tomoya Iwata for this special talk event, held as part of the Suddenly This Overview exhibition at The Japan Foundation, Sydney. Take a deeper dive into the show as Nagata discusses his art practice, and the artworks on display in Suddenly This Overview. He will also talk about his experiences conducting on-site research in Cowra, where he visited the Japanese War Cemetery and Japanese Garden.
Following the talk, attendees will have the opportunity to ask the speakers questions in a 15-minute Q&A session.
The in-person talk event will also be available to view online via livestream on the JPF Sydney Facebook page.
About the speakers
Kosuke Nagata
Kosuke Nagata (b. 1990, Aichi) is a multimedia artist currently based in Kanagawa. Through photography, moving image and installation, his practice explores the self and the other, nature and culture, the body and the environment, and other binary oppositions that undergird modern thinking and their latent ambiguity. His recent work has focused on video essays and performances in the form of meal courses, reflecting on how food culture shapes national identity, the body techniques and power relations contained within table manners, and the control of animal and plant life in food production.
Nagata’s major solo exhibitions include Eat (gallery αM, Tokyo, 2020) and group exhibitions include Seeing as though touching: Contemporary Japanese Photography vol. 19 (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2022) and the Aichi Triennale (Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, 2019).
Photo: Kiritorimederu
Tomoya Iwata
Tomoya Iwata (b. 1995, Aichi) is a curator and the representative director of The 5th Floor, a curatorial space in Tokyo. He completed his MA at the Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Through on-site research, Iwata frequents alternative spaces in various cities, mainly in Asia, to further understand the dynamics between institutional and alternative art scenes in their individual contexts. As a practitioner who operates such a space himself, he explores the potential for alternatives to existing systems through curatorial practices beyond exhibition-making.
Photo: Linda Bujoli
EVENT DETAILS
May 2, 2026 (Saturday)
10:30am-11:30am
45min talk + 15min Q&A
Bookings not required
VENUE
The Japan Foundation, Sydney
Level 4, Central Park
28 Broadway, Chippendale NSW 2008
ADMISSION
Free
ENQUIRIES
(02) 8239 0055
Exhibition Program
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