Archives: Noi Sawaragi

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 whyView 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 beenView 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 andView More >

Remembering Seiko Mikami, media artist – or was she? III   Installation view of the exhibition “World Membrane: Disposal Containers” (1993), Gallery NW House, Tokyo. Photo: Mikio Kurokawa. All photos courtesy Roentgenwerke; cooperation Shigeki Kimura.   (Continued) The conspicuous gapView More >

Remembering Seiko Mikami, media artist – or was she? II   Molecular Informatics ~ morphogenic substance via eye tracking (Version 2.0) (1996), DEAF96, Rotterdam. Photo V2_Organisatie, all photos courtesy Tama Art University   (Continued) The question that immediately springs toView More >

Remembering Seiko Mikami, media artist – or was she?   “Molecular Informatics ~ morphogenic substance via eye tracking (Version 1.0)” (1969), Canon ARTLAB, Hillside Plaza, Tokyo. Photo Mikio Kurokawa, all photos courtesy Tama Art University   The sad news ofView More >

Obscenity as a symbol – Rokudenashiko and Genpei Akasegawa   Rokudenashiko in her “Manboat.” Photo courtesy Shinjuku Ophthalmologist Gallery   Artist Rokudenashiko has been rearrested. (1) As with her first arrest in July 2014, this latest action stems from suspicionsView More >

A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 20) “Yasashii Bijutsu” and Takashi Tosu III   Takashi Tosu – Oshima leprosy sanatorium. “Takamatsu, boat and crag.” All photos: From Nobuyuki Takahashi’s Twitter (@yasashiibijutsu). This photo posted November 15, 2014.  View More >

The shape of the “future” – Grand Guignol Mirai postscript   All photos: Scenes from the August 2014 performance of Grand Guignol Mirai. Photos ©Takashi Homma, courtesy Grand Guignol Mirai 2014 executive committee.   This installment of Notes on ArtView More >

A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 19) “Yasashii Bijutsu” and Takashi Tosu II   Takashi Tosu – Oshima leprosy sanatorium, film #00. All photos: From Nobuyuki Takahashi’s Twitter (@yasashiibijutsu). This photo posted August 2, 2014.   The mannerView More >