Noi Sawaragi

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 Kuboyama andView More >

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 aView More >

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 Art.View More >

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 residentsView More >

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 off theView More >

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 time IView More >

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 ofView More >

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 SeikoView More >

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 writing intermittentlyView More >

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 when didView More >