Research projects

This study is perfomed by six groups from those universities which are different in land area of campus and with or without university museum. After three-year researches, it became evident that the art resource as education and research property in university is extant in various forms, not only as an art work. The category of art resource is open, ranging from hortus siccus to university building, even to intangible "memory" and so it can be utilized in various ways in education and research. On the other side, it cannot be denied that this kind of openess makes vague the definition of the art resource. In this respect its definition requires further researches.

Pursuing the research subject "Examination and Construction of the International Basis of Butoh Studies," we have collected the information on the present situation and accumulation of Butoh research of foreign countries, and we have shared the basic information on the making of Butoh performance and our own situation on the academic achievements in Japan in the several international conferences. According to our effort of information sharing, Butoh researchers in Asia, Europe and America got recognized the making and development of Butoh performance, and we have been able to get the perspective of making Butoh researchers' network in international basis. In addition, we proposed one of the research methods through the process of discovering the new material and reconstructing Butoh performance in 1970.