We usually associate the word ‘consumption’ with material world, with tangible things. The concept is tightly connected to environmental and moral degradation, debt and mental health problems. However, what about consumption of space? Time? Arts? Do we approach consumption of music, for example, in the same way?

In this talk, Azumi will take you on a journey and discuss a concept of Ma (time and space in-between, a Confucius concept of the space between the edges, between the beginning and the end, the space and time in which we experience life), a perception of space in Japanese households and what arts mean to Japanese society. We will explore ideas of beauty as intellectual endeavors through mastery of Geisha and see how Japanese aesthetics and consumption of arts relate to everyday life: tea ceremonies, creation of flower arrangements, playing musical instruments, traditional singing and declamation, classic Japanese dancing, etiquette and deportment, the art of donning a kimono.

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