II. Hamletmachine (2000), four-channel video play, three wall projections and one floor projection on a bed of salt, surrounded with mirror reflecting material, sound, 20 minutes. All images: Courtesy Nalini Malani. ART iT: Clearly national identity, national myth and utopianView More >
II. -oqJZOFzbfA ART iT: We were just discussing your relation to the feminist movement. You have previously described Organic Honey as an alter-ego who is erotic and sexy. My initial interpretation is that this is a re-appropriation of the commodifiedView More >
REFLECTIONS FROM THE MIRROR ROOM By Andrew Maerkle 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: From your early performance pieces inView More >
MULTIPLE BODY, MULTIPLE VOICES By Andrew Maerkle Remembering Toba Tek Singh (1998), four-channel video play with 12 monitors, tin trunks and mirror surrounded with mirror reflecting material, sound, 20 min. All images: Courtesy Nalini Malani. ART iT: You’ve made works,View More >
ALL TOO HUMAN By Andrew Maerkle The video of a man calling himself Bin Laden staying in Japan (2005), video, 8 min, 14 sec. All Images: Courtesy Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo. Interview: ART iT: Your work is often discussed inView More >
III. Tara House, Kashid, Maharashtra, 2005. Photo Hélène Binet. ART iT: Now your projects are getting bigger and bigger and taking on a broader social scale. I think it will be a test for your working style, because to dateView More >
II. All images: Palmyra House, Nandgaon, Maharashtra, 2007. Photo Helene Binet. ART iT: Maybe I misunderstood how you work. I imagined something like a community that works together to make a specific space, but it seems that everybody operates asView More >
SOLVING PROBLEMS THROUGH DESIGN By Andrew Maerkle Pompidou Center Metz. © Didier Boy de la Tour, courtesy Art Tower Mito. ART iT: One of the commonalities that art and architecture share is the legacy of Modernism, which has spread throughoutView More >
BUILDING POTENTIAL By Naohiko Hino All images: MOMAT Pavilion designed and built by Studio Mumbai at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, August 2012 to May 2013. Photo Masumi Kawamura. ART iT: Your work moves between the local situationView More >
ABOUT STUDIO MUMBAI By Naohiko Hino Reading Room, Nagaon, Maharashtra, India, 2003. I simply had to ask, “Why are you an architect?” In interviewing the principal of Studio Mumbai, Bijoy Jain, I gradually felt overcome by a kind of confusion,View More >
II. A Poem Written by 5 Poets at Once (First Attempt) (2012), created with the Japan Foundation for the Japan Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, 2013. All Images: Courtesy of Koki Tanaka, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, and Aoyama Meguro,View More >
II. the meaning of style (2011), 16mm film transferred to HD video; color, sound; 4 min 50 sec. All images: Courtesy Shady Lane Productions. ART iT: We were just discussing your marxism today project and how it builds upon andView More >