Shirabe OGATA

AFFILIATION

Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

ACADEMIC FIELD & RESEARCH　

Cultural Anthropology, Area Studies (Africa)

RESEARCH FIELDS

Southwestern Nigeria and Kyoto, Japan

COMMENTS

With the comparison and contrast of the experiences of artists in Nigeria and Japan, I am examining how arts have been practiced in southwestern Nigeria since the outbreak of the pandemic.

MAJOR WORKS

  • Ogata, Shirabe 2021, ‘This is not the first time for us and it’s going to happen again and again: a short ethnography of people living in cities in Southwestern Nigeria with the pandemic’. In Hamada, A., Nishi, M., Kondo, S., Yoshida, M., (eds.), COVID19 and Anthropology, Tokyo: Suiseisha, pp. 201-223 (In Japanese).
  • Ogata, Shirabe 2022, ‘Twenty-First Century “Primitive Arts”: Study of Exhibitions, Selling, and Everyday Places in Japan’, arts/, Vol. 38, pp. 48-59 (In Japanese).
  • Ogata, Shirabe 2021, ‘Considering “Valuating arts” through everyday practices of arts in Africa’. In Ynagisawa, F., and Ogata, S., Promoting Arts from Africa: Prospects for Intersection between Business and Research, Tokyo: Suiseisha, pp. 159-187 (In Japanese).
  • Ogata, Shirabe 2017, Anthropology of African Arts: Arts, Practices, and Lives of Artists in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. 2003 to 2012, Tokyo: Shimizukobundo (In Japanese).

Photographs and captions related to my research

About one and a half year after the pandemic left, Segun Adeku (left) and Gbenga Adeku (right) held an exhibition in Lagos.（photo by Lawrence Odoh, 7th May 2022, Lagos, Nigeria）
It is artists reside in the city who design and print logos/trademark on masks that were needed during the several months of the pandemic.（photo by Kolawole Olayinka, 19th September 2022, Ile-Ife, Nigeria）

In spite of the political instability in Nigeria started before the outbreak of the pandemic, beady products still have been sold in Ile-Ife, the cradle of Yoruba people.（photo by Tunde Sodipe, 21st September 2022, Ile-Ife, Nigeria）
As indoor live music performances started to be active after the peak of the difficulties of the pandemic, Naoki Kohara works on his live painting.(photo by Shirabe Ogata, 8th July 2022, Kyoto, Japan)