Noi Sawaragi

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 fill it,View More >

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 September, andView More >

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 host toView More >

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 after sheView More >

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 this series,View More >

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 artView More >

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 afterView More >

‘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 Kakai KikiView More >