III. Video still from Looking Pretty for God (After GW) (2008), single-channel video, color, sound, 27 min. All images: Unless otherwise noted, © Omer Fast; courtesy the artist, gb agency, Paris; and Taro Nasu, Tokyo. ART iT: Speaking of EverythingView More >
AB/EX/IN/AMB/OM By Andrew Maerkle gesture/data (feedback) (2015), oil paint on flat-screen television, mp4 file (color, silent) and feedback mp4 file (color, sound). All images: Unless otherwise specified, © Ken Okiishi; courtesy the artist and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo. Born in 1978View More >
II. CNN Concatenated (2002), video, monitor, color and sound, 18 min 17 sec. All images: Unless otherwise noted, © Omer Fast; courtesy the artist; gb agency, Paris; and Taro Nasu, Tokyo. ART iT: I think you’ve said in previous interviewsView More >
What will “distance” be? Or when is it a thing to feel to be? When I stare at oneself and face a family and a lover, a friend and think about a social problem and a world event, there isView More >
III. Damage Control Training, USS Nashville, Senegal (2009), from the series “Events Ashore.” ART iT: Looking back over your career, do you feel that each project has its own contained aspect to it, or is there some element over whichView More >
II. US Marine Expeditionary Unit, Shoalwater Bay, Australia (2005), from the series “Events Ashore.” ART iT: You mentioned your project “Small Wars,” which was shot with Vietnam War reenactors in the US. As I understand it, you were actually participatingView More >
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo is opened on Friday, July 24 until 21:00 every Friday until Friday, September 25. ＊Ticketing, the entrance until 20:30 For summer night outing, please spend time in an art museum usually different in the atmosphere.View More >
Artist File 2015 Next Doors: Contemporary Art in Japan and Korea Date July 29 (Wed.) – October 12, 2015 (Mon.) Closed Tuesdays (except Tue., Sept. 22) Opening hours 10:00-18:00 *10:00-20:00 on Fridays (Last admission 30 minutes before closing) Venue TheView More >
Obscenity as a symbol – Rokudenashiko and Genpei Akasegawa Rokudenashiko in her “Manboat.” Photo courtesy Shinjuku Ophthalmologist Gallery Artist Rokudenashiko has been rearrested. (1) As with her first arrest in July 2014, this latest action stems from suspicions on theView More >
‘Okinawa’ and ‘Portrait’: – Ryuichi Ishikawa’s Okinawan Portraits 2010-2012 Ryuichi Ishikawa – from Okinawan Portraits 2010-2012 I have already touched on the portraits of Ryuichi Ishikawa (b. 1984) in a previous column (Critical Fieldwork 48: Japanese Portraits). I noted thatView More >
II. Yielding Stone (1992), Plasticine, 35.6 x 43.2 x 43.2 cm. Courtesy Gabriel Orozco and Marian Goodman Gallery. ART iT: We were just talking about your photographs and how the imprint of the body in life can have multiple connotations.View More >
EMPRESS OF SIGNS By Andrew Maerkle Mes transports (Detail) (2012-13), mixed media, dimensionen variable, courtesy Annette Messager / Marian Goodman Gallery Paris/New York, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2014. Photo © Marc Domage, © Kunstsammlung NRW. Working with everything from photographsView More >