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 >
III. Still from Je veux voir (2008), with Catherine Deneuve and Rabih Mroué. ART iT: We’ve been discussing different approaches to narrative. You mentioned earlier that you make a distinction between history and memory. Can you elaborate on this andView More >
II. ERrfUxfICcM Trailer for Je veux voir (2008). ART iT: In your films it seems that there’s a delicacy involved in how you create your narratives, a sensitivity to the idea that the narrative is both creative and destructive atView More >
THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD By Andrew Maerkle and Akira Rachi A Piano Played by Five Pianists at Once (First Attempt) (2012), video installation with HD video (57 min), two drawings (approx 50.8 x 48.26 cm each), temporary walls, dimensions variable.View More >
PRODUCTION AND REPRODUCTION AND RELATIONS OF PRODUCTION By Andrew Maerkle and Natsuko Odate marxism today (prologue) (2010), HD video in color and black-andwhite, sound, 35 min. All images: Unless otherwise noted, courtesy Shady Lane Productions. ART iT: In your worksView More >
MOVING MONUMENTS By Andrew Maerkle Restaged No. 7 from “Lebanese Rocket Society, Elements for a Monument” (2012), C-print, 100 x 72cm. All Images: Courtesy Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige. ART iT: I’d like to start with the idea of circulation.View More >
III. Difference is Difference Untitled (2010), acrylic, silkscreen on aluminium, 86.3 x 58.4 cm. Photo Kei Okano, courtesy Nathan Hylden and Misako & Rosen. ART iT: Are there any artists today who really interest you? NH: There’s several but ifView More >