Ko Kawakami

Kounosuke Kawakami is a researcher, curator, and currently Associate Professor at the Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts. 

His reserch and curatorial approach focuses on: artists or collective practices; re-interpreting historical contexts into the contemporary via the exhibition or punk format; and looking at artists who question current political and social conditions and perceptions through art or punk. 

His book 'Genealogy of Punk' is due to be published at the end of 2023. He also has a chapter in the forthcoming edited book of "The Idea of Anarchism" and "Culture of Expression Research Lectures" 2024.

His curated exhibitions include: Punk! The Revolution of Everyday Life (2021-2024);Bedtime for Democracy(2022); Guerrilla Girls, Reinventing the 'F' Word - Feminism! (2020,2023); Ho Rui An, Solar: A Meltdown (2020); Anton Vidokle, Russian Cosmism: Trilogy (2019); Thomas Hirschhorn & Santiago Sierra, Radical Democracy (2016); The Third Entity (2015) with Mikhail Karikis, Héctor Zamora, Taka Atsugi, Toki Okamoto.