As part of Hyperallergic’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Machiko Harada examines how Japanese and Japanese-American artists address the painful legacy of US concentration camps during World War II.
Machiko Harada
Machiko Harada is a Japanese curator, writer, and cultural mediator based in Santa Fe. She has curated in Japan and Europe, and previously served as chief curator at the Akiyoshidai International Art Village. She is currently developing a curatorial methodology based on her lifelong learning of the tea ceremony.
Japanese Diasporic Artists Take On Intergenerational Trauma
Although it occurred more than 80 years ago, the incarceration of Japanese Americans in US concentration camps still resonates with today’s relevant issues.
Japanese-American Artists Revisit the Painful Legacy of WWII
How does someone who has not experienced war, or the extreme racism that drove the Japanese incarceration campaign in the US, access these painful memories?