Music is not immaterial, but it is molecularized based on territory, as with bird calls. It makes boundaries and is in turn made by the boundaries, which I see as a kind of self-collapse. This point of self-collapse is what interests me: where one needs the other but cannot be differentiated from the other at the same time.
“We really, really, really hope that they will reopen. I was telling Meiro that for the first time in my career, over my many experiences of censorship, I feel there is a chance for the situation to be solved, and that maybe the Aichi Triennale could be a symbol to the world for how to deal with this kind of situation successfully.”
Art Museum Exhibition Page: http://www.nact.jp/english/exhibitions/2019/gendai2019/ Image Narratives: Literature in Japanese Contemporary Art Overview This group exhibition features six Japanese contemporary artists, who are active both inside and outside the country. In addition to being born over a broad span ofView More >
Atsushi Fukui: Arcadians
16 FEB – 9 MAR 2019
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Bridges and ladders: The forgotten Kanogawa Typhoon Floating debris collecting at the Chitose Bridge, photographed by Shunji Ishii in 1958. Collection Kanogawa Resource Center; courtesy Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Numazu Office of River and National Highway. View More >
“I was working on site, transcribing and arranging these aphoristic notes I had compiled in the memo app on my iPhone, and as I wrote everything out I started hearing this voice in my head saying, ‘There’s no way this could ever be realized.’ I went back and forth with myself about it. Then at the end I thought: ‘Capitalism right now . . . needs to change!'”
[Part I] June 30 (Saturday) – August 23 (Thursday), 2018 [Part II] August 24 (Friday) – September 30 (Sunday), 2018 Kankai Pavilion (Traditional East Asian Art) Over the ages, in both the East and the West, artists have sought outView More >
Madhat Kakei’s paintings, wanderings/circles, and coincidence Installation view of untitled paintings by Madhat Kakei at Akutsu Gallery, Maebashi (2017). All photos: Noi Sawaragi, courtesy Madhat Kakei. A young architect friend told me there was a Kurdish painterView More >
BETWEEN PRACTICE AND THEORY By Futoshi Hoshino Nicolas Bourriaud lectures at Tokyo University of the Arts, January 8, 2018. Photo: Shu Nakagawa, courtesy Tokyo University of the Arts. One of the premier intellects in the fields of contemporary art andView More >
STARING WITH EQUALITY Cinema Olanda Film (2017), digital projection, 17 min, installation view in the Dutch Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, 2017. Photo Giacomo Frison. All images: © Wendelien van Oldenborgh, courtesy the artist and Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam. BasedView More >
In a continuation of the column 2010 Cinema, this is the fourth in a series of fictional portraits by Hu Fang, each taking the form of loose screen plays. 4.1 He suddenly felt he had been here before – heView More >