Ming Tiampo

In her research, Ming Tiampo examines questions of cultural translation and transmission in an international context, concentrating on Japan’s relations with the West. Her current book project is a transnational analysis of the Japanese avant-garde art movement Gutai that examines the group’s contacts and exchanges with France, the United States, and Italy. She recently collaborated with two other scholars on Moments de Déstruction, Moments de Beauté (Paris: Blusson, 2002), has published numerous articles on post-war Japanese and French art, and has given public lectures in Europe, Asia, and North America. In 2000 she was a fellow at the Ashiya City Museum of Art and History in Ashiya, Japan, where she conducted research and developed “Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka 1954-1968”. It showed at the Grey Art Gallery in New York and at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver in 2004 and 2005. She is a founding member of the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis (CTCA) at Carleton.

Her teaching draws from the transnational insights of her research. She was recently invited to give a lecture about her teaching at the conference Mutations Connections: Cultural (Ex)Changes in Asian Diasporas at the Emily Carr Institute and Centre A, the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. There, she discussed changes to the curriculum that she was instituting at Carleton: the introduction of courses in Asian Art, broadening the scope of the first year survey to include non-Western material, and teaching a course of the art of hyphenated artists in Canada.

Courses Taught:
European Art and its Contacts: From Prehistory to the Present
Survey of Asian Art: Power and Reclusion in China, Japan & India
Asian Modernisms: Modern Art in China, Japan and India
Hyphen-Nation: Contemporary Art in Canada
Transnational Theory and Exhibitions
Gutai and the Japanese Avant-Garde
Performance Art in an International Context
Japan and the West