이혜원 Hyewon Lee 李蕙媛
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2026 도쿄 아트 앤 스페이스 리서치 레지던시 2026 Tokyo Arts and Space Research Residency
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Installation view of the interactive research map shown at the Open Studio, tracing the genealogy that links Manchukuo's visual regime to contemporary techno-orientalism, TOKAS, Tokyo, 17-19 July 2026. Photo: MANIWA Yuki, Courtesy of Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS).
Installation view of the interactive research map shown at the Open Studio, tracing the genealogy that links Manchukuo's visual regime to contemporary techno-orientalism, TOKAS, Tokyo, 17-19 July 2026. Photo: MANIWA Yuki, Courtesy of Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS).
Installation view of the interactive research map shown at the Open Studio, tracing the genealogy that links Manchukuo's visual regime to contemporary techno-orientalism, TOKAS, Tokyo, 17-19 July 2026. Photo: MANIWA Yuki, Courtesy of Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS).
Installation view of the interactive research map shown at the Open Studio, tracing the genealogy that links Manchukuo's visual regime to contemporary techno-orientalism, TOKAS, Tokyo, 17-19 July 2026. Photo: MANIWA Yuki, Courtesy of Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS).
Installation view of the interactive research map shown at the Open Studio, tracing the genealogy that links Manchukuo's visual regime to contemporary techno-orientalism, TOKAS, Tokyo, 17-19 July 2026. Photo: MANIWA Yuki, Courtesy of Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS).
Installation view of the interactive research map shown at the Open Studio, tracing the genealogy that links Manchukuo's visual regime to contemporary techno-orientalism, TOKAS, Tokyo, 17-19 July 2026, Courtesy of Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS).
Lecture view of the Open Studio Presentation, “Asia as a Future Image: Manchukuo's Visual Regime and the Genealogy of Techno-Orientalism”, TOKAS, Tokyo, 19 July 2026, Courtesy of Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS). 
Lecture view of the Open Studio Presentation, “Asia as a Future Image: Manchukuo's Visual Regime and the Genealogy of Techno-Orientalism”, TOKAS, Tokyo, 19 July 2026, Courtesy of Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS). 
Lecture view of the Open Studio Presentation, “Asia as a Future Image: Manchukuo's Visual Regime and the Genealogy of Techno-Orientalism”, TOKAS, Tokyo, 19 July 2026, Courtesy of Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS). 
Lecture view of the Open Studio Presentation, “Asia as a Future Image: Manchukuo's Visual Regime and the Genealogy of Techno-Orientalism”, TOKAS, Tokyo, 19 July 2026, Courtesy of Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS). 
Lecture view of the Open Studio Presentation, “Asia as a Future Image: Manchukuo's Visual Regime and the Genealogy of Techno-Orientalism”, TOKAS, Tokyo, 19 July 2026, Courtesy of Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS). 
Lecture view of the Open Studio Presentation, “Asia as a Future Image: Manchukuo's Visual Regime and the Genealogy of Techno-Orientalism”, TOKAS, Tokyo, 19 July 2026, Courtesy of Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS). 


분류: 리서치
제목: 2026 도쿄 아트 앤 스페이스 리서치 레지던시
구성: 아카이브 리서치, 인터뷰, 커피 개더링, 오픈 스튜디오, 강연
시간: 2026년 5월 8일 – 2026년 7월 26일
장소: 도쿄 아트 앤 스페이스(TOKAS), 도쿄, 일본
역할: 리서처
선정: 2026 해외레지던시참가지원, 한국문화예술위원회, 서울, 한국

Category: Writing/Research
Title: 2026 Tokyo Arts and Space Research Residency
Components: Archival Research, Interviews, Coffee Gatherings, Open Studio, and Lecture
Period: May 8, 2026 – July 26, 2026
Venue: Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS), Tokyo, Japan
Role: Researcher
Selection: 2026 Overseas Residency Fellowship, Arts Council Korea, 2026, Seoul, Korea
2026 TOKAS 리서치 레지던시 기간 동안 만주국(1932-1945)의 시각 문화와 테크노 오리엔탈리즘 담론의 관계를 조사했다. 핵심 질문은 하나였다. 제국 일본이 생산한 기술 유토피아의 이미지는 어떻게 오늘날 동시대 시각 문화가 아시아 도시를 디스토피아로 재현하는 방식을 예비하는가.

연구는 두 개의 축으로 진행되었다. 이론적 예비 연구로서 『테크노 오리엔탈리즘 2.0: 새로운 교차와 개입』을 한국어로 공역했고, 현장 연구로서 남만주철도가 발행한 화보 잡지 『만주그래프(満洲グラフ)』와 포스터, 그림엽서를 도쿄, 나고야, 교토, 돗토리의 도서관 및 미술관에서 조사했다. 국립국회도서관(NDL), 도쿄도립도서관, 도쿄국립근대미술관(MOMAT)에서의 아카이브 조사와 더불어, 만몽개척평화기념관(나가노), 나고야, 교토, 그리고 이타 유세이 컬렉션(돗토리)을 대상으로 한 리서치 트립을 통해 만주국 시기 자료의 시각·텍스트 데이터베이스를 구축했다. 만주국 시각 미디어 연구의 권위자인 기시 도시히코 교수와의 리서치 인터뷰는 분석을 예각화하는 결정적 계기가 되었다.

이를 토대로 프로젝트의 핵심 논지를 다듬었다. 만주국은 "미래로서의 아시아"라는 시각적 문법이 체계화된 초기 실험실로 기능했으며, 바로 그 문법이 이후 사이버펑크 디스토피아로 반전되었다는 것이다. 논의의 각 단계는 두 차례의 커피 개더링, 오픈 스튜디오 발표, 그리고 도쿄예술대학교 초청 강연을 통해 공유되었고, 이 과정에서 일본을 기반으로 활동하는 연구자, 큐레이터, 작가들과의 네트워크를 구축했다.

이 연구는 전시 및 국제 심포지엄 《테크노 유토피아, 테크노 오리엔탈리즘》(가제)과 만주국 시각 아카이브의 단행본 출판으로 이어질 예정이다.

During the 2026 TOKAS Research Residency, I investigated the visual culture of the puppet state of Manchukuo (1932-1945) and its relation to the discourse of techno-orientalism, asking how imperial Japan's images of a techno-utopia prefigure the dystopian representation of Asian cities in contemporary visual culture.

The work proceeded along two tracks. As preparatory theoretical research, I co-translated Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions into Korean. As field research, I examined Manchukuo's pictorial magazine Manshu Graph, posters, and postcards across libraries and museums in Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto, and Tottori. Archival work at the National Diet Library (NDL), the Tokyo Metropolitan Library, and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT), together with a dedicated research trip to the Memorial Museum for Agricultural Emigrants to Manchuria (Nagano), Nagoya, Kyoto, and the Ita Yusei Collection at Yusei Deai no Yakata (Tottori), produced a visual and textual database of Manchukuo-era materials. A research interview with Professor Kishi Toshihiko, a leading authority on Manchukuo's visual media, was central to sharpening the analysis.

On this basis I refined the project's core argument: that Manchukuo functioned as an early laboratory in which a visual grammar of "Asia as the future" was systematized, and that this same grammar was later inverted into the cyberpunk dystopia. Successive stages of the argument were shared through two Coffee Gatherings, the Open Studio presentation, and a guest lecture at Tokyo University of the Arts, in the course of which I established a network of scholars, curators, and artists based in Japan.

The research will be developed into the exhibition and international symposium Techno-Utopia, Techno-Orientalism (working title) and into a consolidated publication of the Manchukuo visual archive.




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