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Director's Message
Imagination derives from experience, yet the world we share as background to our contemporary societies is becoming ever more homogeneous. This may hinder us from exploring the unknown - the world we have never previously understood - and we may all end up dreaming the same dreams. Nevertheless, parts of the mind still remain uncontrolled, or rather, untamed. We refer to this as the Wild Realm.
It is impossible to make any new discovery, or be creative in any field, unless we retain contact with this Wild Realm.
But how to access this Wild Realm of the mind? How can we open pathways leading to it? This exhibition, "Wild: Untamed Mind" takes its theme in finding keys to the door behind which this Wild Realm lurks.
Shinichi Nakazawa
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Shinichi Nakazawa
Born 1950, Yamanashi Prefecture in Japan, Shinichi Nakazawa is an anthropologist and philosopher. He is currently Director of Institut pour la Science Sauvage, Meiji University, Tokyo. Nakazawa attended the PhD programme in the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo, then conducted research in Tibet into Buddhist practices. Returning to Japan, he pioneered new research fields into human mentality. Nakazawa's published work includes, Chibetto no mōtsuaruto (Mozart in Tibet), Mori no barokku (A Baroque Thinker in the Forest), Firosofia yaponika (Philosophia Japonika), Āsu daibā (Earth Diver), Kaie sobāju (Chaiers Sauvages), Geijutsu-jinruigaku (Art Anthropology), Yasei no Kagaku (Wild Science), Osaka Āsu daibā (Osaka Earth Diver). More recent publications include Kumagusu no hoshi no jikan (Decisive Moment of Kumagusu), Haiku no umi ni moguru (Diving into a Haiku Sea). Nakazawa was awarded the 26th Minakata Kumagusu Prize for his contribution to the Humanities.