Related Event of "Listening to the Inner Voice”
Talk Event
SHIMURA Nobuhiro × KINOSHITA Tomotake

Born in 1982, in Tokyo. Currently based in Katori City, Chiba Prefecture. Shimura completed the Imaging Arts and Sciences graduate course at Musashino Art University. His practice encompasses video installations featuring everyday objects and familiar landscapes, as well as numerous site-specific works that bring the history and memory of a place to the surface. In recent years, he has incorporated documentary methods into his practice, producing film and video works that shed light on overlooked histories and social issues.

Born in 1977, in Fukuoka. Researcher, Institute for Liberal Arts, Institute of Science Tokyo. Ph.D. in Engineering. KINOSHITA's research focuses on the history of disability, architectural planning, and architectural history. Through historical records of people with disabilities, particularly those related to Mōa gakko—historical institutions that provided education and vocational training for blind and deaf individuals and that preceded today’s schools for the blind and the deaf—he explores the formation of the concept of disability and the histories of disability communities that formed, changed, and sometimes faded over time in modern Japan. He is also the director of Shuwa Map, an initiative that promotes accessible environments for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and late-deafened people to participate in museum exhibitions and events.