The Batsheva Dance Company’s FURO (2006) marked Tabaimo’s first foray into collaboration with dance. The commission came from the company’s artistic director who fell hopelessly in love with the artist’s Japanese Bathhouse. What was it that drew the world-renowned choreographerView More >
For ‘Shomei Tomatsu: Hues and Textures of Nagasaki’ Part 2: 11:02 Nagasaki If “Japan as it really exists” is absent, where is the reality, the “decisive moment,” of post-war “Japan”? In 1961, 16 years after the moment the atomic bombView More >
Ukawa Naohiro (CREAM competition juror) Hachiya Kazuhiko (Participating artist) Sumitomo Fumihiko (Director of the Festival) Anyone can create their own video and watch all manner of video in this ‘media art paradise’ of recent years, a paradise in which suchView More >
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A conversation between Ozaki Tetsuya and Hasegawa Yuko (part 2) Text in Japanese.
On the ‘budget screening’ of the cultural administration The ‘budget screening’ of allocations in the fiscal 2010 budget carried out by the Government Revitalization Unit is being talked about a lot. As indicated by the revival of the so-called supercomputerView More >
A conversation between Ozaki Tetsuya and Hasegawa Yuko (part 1) Text in Japanese only. Ozaki Tetsuya and Hasegawa Yuko Olafur Eliasson Quadruple Suncooker Lamp 2006 Private collection, Courtesy Gallery Koyanagi Photo Kioku Keizo Hussein Chalayan LED Dress 2007 Hussein Chalayan inView More >
For ‘Shomei Tomatsu: Hues and Textures of Nagasaki’ Part 1: Historical background So long as photographs are in the final analysis pictures, irrespective of how much the photographer tries to put their own interests to one side, an aesthetic judgmentView More >
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What are the greatest possibilities and challenges you face in your current (media-based) art practice? Alfredo Jarr (The Sound of Silence) http://www.ifamy.jp/en/programs/single/414/ My greatest challenge is ALWAYS my next project. Hachiya Kazuhiko (Seeing is believing) http://www.ifamy.jp/en/programs/single/519/ Photo Matsukage Hiroyuki Possibilities:View More >
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Observations on Contemporary Art in Japan From Collage/To Collage Varda Caivano Untitled 2007 Oil on canvas, 51x70cm, Courtesy Tomio Koyama Gallery Varda Caivano at the Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto; William Kentridge at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; theView More >