A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 28) ‘Tanesashi Decontamination 2016’ (II) Installation view (first floor gallery) of “Shuji Akagi + Kio Kuroda – Tanesashi Decontamination 2016” at Hachinohe City Museum of Art. © ICANOF. Photo courtesy ICANOF.
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 27) ‘Tanesashi Decontamination 2016’ (1) Installation view (first floor gallery) of “Shuji Akagi + Kio Kuroda – Tanesashi Decontamination 2016” at Hachinohe City Museum of Art. © ICANOF All photos: courtesy
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 26) From the Daigo Fukuryu Maru to the present (2) I was still a high school student when I first learned of the death of Daigo Fukuryu Maru crewmember Aikichi
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 25) From the Daigo Fukuryu Maru to the present (1) From the reception marking the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall (a sketch based on
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 24) Sion Sono and Hiso hiso boshi (The Whispering Star) (2) Installation view of The Bridge of “the Verge of the Verge of Death” (2016) at the Watari Museum of Contemporary
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 23) Sion Sono and Hiso hiso boshi (The Whispering Star) (1) Scene from The Whispering Star, written, produced and directed by Sion Sono. Starring Megumi Kagurazaka, Kenji Endo, Yuto Ikeda, and
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 22) Daisuke Shimizu’s illustrations of caterpillar fungi (2) Aquamarine Fukushima today. All images: courtesy Aquamarine Fukushima Five years ago, at 2:46pm on March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck
Daisuke Shimizu’s illustrations of caterpillar fungi (1) Left: Torrubiella aranicida, right: Cordyceps macularis, ink and color on paper. All images: courtesy and collection of the Yonezawa City Uesugi Museum. I became familiar with Daisuke Shimizu’s name around the
Looking back on 2015 – From the other side of ‘Best Exhibitions’ Posted in Japanese on December 22, 2015 The Aida Family – Manifesto (2015), installation view at “An Art Exhibition for Children: Whose Place is This?” Museum of
Remembering Seiko Mikami, media artist – or was she? VI Grand Guignol Mirai – Demio Fukushima 501 (2015–), video documentation shown at “Don’t Follow the Wind – Non-Visitor Center,” Watari Museum of Art. There is a reason why
Remembering Seiko Mikami, media artist – or was she? V Photo: Naoya Hatakeyama, © studio parabolica With this installment, I will bring to a close for the time being this essay concerning Seiko Mikami, which I have been
Remembering Seiko Mikami, media artist – or was she? IV (Continued) So what exactly does this term “world membrane,” which Seiko Mikami liked to use around this time, mean? When did she come up with this term and