Takashi Azumaya – the ‘being and temperature’ Shinro Ohtake – Dub-Hei & New Chanel (1999) (detail). Installation view at “Art/Domestic – Temperature of the Time” (Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo) Photo: Masataka Nakano, courtesy Setagaya Art Museum. The independent curator TakashiView More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 9) Nukes and Niigata II Otomo Yoshihide x Ameya Norimizu tachi – Smile (2012). Photographed July 16, 2012. All photos: Isamu Murai, courtesy the Water and Land – Niigata Art Festival organizingView More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 8) Nukes and Niigata I Still from Casting Blossoms to the Sky. © Nagaoka Film Commission / PSC. August 6, 2012, 8.15am. At this time, exactly 67 years after the dropping ofView More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 7) Yusuke Nakahara and Nuclear Criticism II The feeling I get from the artwork at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale is one of spaciousness. The festival is overturning the conventional wisdom that artworksView More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 6) Yusuke Nakahara and Nuclear Criticism I Yusuke Nakahara speaking at the symposium The Shape of the Art Museum of the Future (September 2010, Benesse House, Naoshima). Photo Osama Nakamura, courtesy theView More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 5) Iwaki Yumoto III On March 21 of this year I flew to Hakata with the artist Takashi Murakami. We went there to visit the artist Mokuma Kikuhata. As soon as weView More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 4) Iwaki Yumoto II All photos ART iT (March 2012) I returned to Tokyo from Iwaki Yumoto and in the New Year, on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, I set foot for theView More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 3) Iwaki Yumoto I Exterior view of the Mihako-za After taking part in the symposium Community and Art in the Aftermath of March 11: Before and After, held October 30 of lastView More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 2) ji me n (ground) In his previous column, Noi Sawaragi introduced a reexamination of his concept of “the art of ground zero” by discussing the cultural resonance of the Daigo FukuryuView More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 1) The Runit Dome, Fukushima, and the Lucky Dragon In the summer of 2004, around the same time as now when the singing of the cicadas was intense, a certain exhibition openedView More >