Volunteer faculty members from the University of Tokyo protest the measures taken by the Agency for Cultural Affairs due to the cancellation of the exhibition "Inconvenient Expression Exhibition / Afterwards" at the International Arts Festival "Aichi Triennale 2019" and the Agency for Cultural Affairs not granting subsidies. Issued a statement to do.
The statement includes four callers, including Professor Takashi Ikegami of the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo, and Professor Mari Kobayashi of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and more than 4 supporters, including Professor Shuichi Kito.
According to volunteer teachers, the Agency for Cultural Affairs' decision not to issue is because they did not report them, recognizing the important facts that threatened the safety of visitors and the smooth operation of the business.
Statements, on the other hand, generally have various concerns about preparing for the exhibition, and given that cultural arts can be the subject of intimidation and terrorist acts, they are subsidized for not consulting. It was criticized that it was a remarkably unreasonable decision to disqualify the entire amount.
Furthermore, the Agency for Cultural Affairs should have been able to fully recognize that there was a threat to the Triennale and a notice of terrorist acts in the media from the application for the subsidy to the decision to not grant it, but the organizer showed an attitude of not giving in to the threat. The fact that it does not support Aichi Prefecture and makes it difficult to carry out the exhibition due to the non-granting of subsidies effectively contributes to the act of obstructing the exhibition and unreasonably interferes with the movement of Aichi Prefecture toward resumption. It is said that it is doing.
