Tokyo Festival Farm Lab aims to cultivate young professionals able to freely navigate the many increasingly fluid borders of our world. The initiative encourages artists to explore the interdisciplinary and interregional "Transfield" through collaboration with others. Some lectures offered under this program will be open to the public.

The lecturer for this session will be CHEN Tien-shi, who was born in Yokohama Chinatown to Taiwanese parents who immigrated to Japan and yet remained stateless under Japanese law for thirty years or so due to the severance in diplomatic relations between Japan and Taiwan which accompanied the normalization of ties between China and Japan.

After the lecture there will also be a discussion in which CHEN joins Tokyo Festival Farm Lab participants from other parts of Asia to consider the meaning of nationality and identity.

Schedule: Wednesday, Aug. 17, 18:30 - 21:00 (JST)
- The broadcast may end slightly earlier or later than advertised.
Place: Online​​
Language: Japanese (Japanese-English consecutive interpretation available)
Lecturer: Lara, CHEN Tienshi (Professor at Waseda University, Representative of NPO Stateless Network)​​

Ticket: Free (Application required)
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For more information, please visit Tokyo Festival Farm website.