NEVER ENDING STORY By Andrew Maerkle Paradox of Praxis I (Sometimes Doing Something Leads to Nothing) (1997), Mexico City, video documentation of an action, 5 min. Photo Enrique Huerta. All images: Unless otherwise noted, courtesy Francis Alÿs. Born in BelgiumView More >
WAYS OF SEEING By Andrew Maerkle Three Women (2010), installation view. All images: Courtesy Alfredo Jaar, New York. Representing his native Chile in this year’s 55th Venice Biennale, New York-based mulimedia artist Alfredo Jaar recently visited Japan for the openingView More >
EXTREME ENCOUNTERS By Natsuko Odate Time Memory / Cloud (2013), neon, stainless pipe, steel pipe, 314×625×297 cm. Installation view at Marugame Genichi-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013. Photo Masahito Yamamoto. ART iT: The artistic director’s exhibition of this year’s 55thView More >
FIT TO SCALE By Andrew Maerkle Installation view of “Andreas Gursky” at the National Art Center, Tokyo, 2013, with Bangkok I (2011) at left and Klausenpass (1984) at right. Photo ART iT. On the eve of his current solo exhibitionView More >
II. The Kiss (2012), detail, mixed-media installation: three-channel video projection; 3D print on plinth; eight light boxes; single-channel video, etc. Installation view, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2013: “Public Diary,” at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. PhotoView More >
THE GOLDEN TEARDROP By Gridthiya Gaweewong Golden Teardrop (2013, detail, site-specific sculptural installation with wooden construction incorporating wood from Ayutthaya house, iron beams from decommissioned post-World War II factory and 6,000 cast brass pieces, wooden construction: 5 x 5 m;View More >
DOCUMENTING VOID By Andrew Maerkle and Akira Rachi Adornos’s Grey (2012), detail, single-channel HD-video projection, 14 min 20 sec, four angled screens, wall plot, photographs. All images: Courtesy Hito Steyerl. ART iT: You have a background in filmmaking, philosophy andView More >
THE 55TH VENICE BIENNALE: THE ENCYCLOPEDIC PALACE Koki Tanaka – “abstract speaking – sharing uncertainty and collective acts,” installation view, the Japan Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, 2013. Photo Keizo Kioku, courtesy the Japan Foundation. Features Hito Steyerl: Documenting Void ArinView More >
RESTRUCTURED HISTORIES By Akira Rachi Bell Peppers (2012), C-print, painted frame, 29.2 x 36.8 x 3.8 cm. All images: Unless otherwise noted, courtesy Elad Lassry and Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo. Interview: ART iT: You are best known for your photographs,View More >
V. The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, performance, Dia:Beacon, New York, 2005. Photo Paula Court. All images: Courtesy Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. ART iT: You mentioned how when you first came to Japan you were impressed withView More >
IV. Reanimation, installation view, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, 2013. All images: Courtesy Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. ART iT: Two works which interest me and might even in some way be connected to the current piece, Reanimation, are JonesView More >
III Volcano Saga, photograph, Iceland, 1985. Photo Joan Jonas. All images: Courtesy Wako Works of Art, Tokyo. ART iT: You mention how in dealing with structure and form and the medium of video, your early performances allowed the audience toView More >