The invisible union of flesh and eye: Jun Tsuzuki’s ‘New Eidos’ All images: Installation view of ” New Eidos” (2010) at Recto Verso Gallery, Tokyo. Inside a cube-shaped exhibition space so small two or three people would probably
Viewing the Setouchi International Art Festival (Part II) Yasuhiro Suzuki – Ship of the Zipper (2010) By now it’s significantly cooler, but the Seto Inland Sea was still gripped by a heat wave when I visited in early
Viewing the Setouchi International Art Festival (Part I) Shodoshima. Photo Osamu Nakamura. From July to October this year seven islands – Naoshima, Teshima, Shodoshima, Ogijima, Megijima, Oshima, Inujima – at the eastern end of Japan’s Inland Sea played
New songs without words: Yurie Nagashima’s ‘SWISS+’ All images: Installation view of “SWISS+” (2010) at SCAI The Bathhouse 2F View Room. Photos Keizo Kioku, courtesy SCAI The Bathhouse. It was 1994 when I first met Yurie Nagashima, soon
Chaos, Destruction, Recurring Chaosmos – Beyond the ‘Hametsu*Lounge’ Installation view of “Hametsu*Lounge” (2010) at Nanzuka Agenda Shibuya. Courtesy Nanzuka Underground. Following on from my review of the recent “Chaos*Lounge” exhibition at Takahashi Collection Hibiya in Part 6 of
To Whom Does Art Belong? On the forced resignation of Fram Kitagawa (Part II) In Part I of this two-part essay on the current conditions for exhibiting contemporary art in Japan, Noi Sawaragi reviewed the historical relationship between fine art
To Whom Does Art Belong? On the forced resignation of Fram Kitagawa (Part I) As I write, the forced resignation this March of Fram Kitagawa as director at the Niigata City Art Museum, a position he assumed in 2007 after
‘Chaos*Lounge 2010’ – Budding freedom/equality and their future Installation view of “Chaos*Lounge 2010 in Takahashi Collection Hibiya” On April 16, artist and art critic Yohei Kurose gave a lecture in conjunction with Takashi Murakami’s GEISAI University (at the