Daria Melnikova received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 and specializes in modern and contemporary Japanese art. In her book manuscript tentatively titled The Trajectory of Performance Art in Japan: From Modernist Dance to Happenings, she examines experimental art practices as a dynamic forum of creative exchange between Japanese visual artists, dancers, musicians, theater directors, and photographers from the early 1910s to the late 1960s.
Her research also sheds light on the broader milieu of Japanese-Russian artistic and intellectual transnational relations in her recent article “What is Futurism? Russia and Japan Exchange Answers” (The Art Bulletin, March 2021). Her translation of the essay “Beyond the Circle” (1987) of Japanese avant-garde artist Shirakawa Yoshio was published on Art Platform Japan, an initiative run by the Agency of Cultural Affairs. She also taught courses on East Asian Art at Columbia University, New York.
Contact: daria.melnikova@mail.huji.ac.il
Guest Course
Musical and Cultural Politics: Modernity and Modernism in Korea and Japan Modernism was a global artistic phenomenon with a multiplicity of aesthetic practices and ideas that sought to overthrow traditional academic art. In the first half of the twentieth century, the formation of modernism in Korea and Japan highlights the transnational and multidirectional nature of the development of a global modernism. Join a conversation about artistic innovations in visual arts, cinema, music, dance, theater, and literature and explore a complex relationship between modernism and modernity in Imperial Japan and Colonial Korea.