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II.   Mecon (2013). Photo ART iT.   ART iT: What is your approach to making sculptural works?　 SO: Even in 1988 when I made my first sculptural work, I was aware that I was assembling objects as they were.View More >

EXTREME ENCOUNTERS By Natsuko Odate   Time Memory / Cloud (2013), neon, stainless pipe, steel pipe, 314×625×297 cm. Installation view at Marugame Genichi-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, 2013. Photo Masahito Yamamoto.   ART iT: The artistic director’s exhibition of thisView More >

II.   The Kiss (2012), detail, mixed-media installation: three-channel video projection; 3D print on plinth; eight light boxes; single-channel video, etc. Installation view, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2013: “Public Diary,” at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.View More >

THE GOLDEN TEARDROP By Gridthiya Gaweewong   Golden Teardrop (2013, detail, site-specific sculptural installation with wooden construction incorporating wood from Ayutthaya house, iron beams from decommissioned post-World War II factory and 6,000 cast brass pieces, wooden construction: 5 x 5View More >

DOCUMENTING VOID By Andrew Maerkle and Akira Rachi   Adornos’s Grey (2012), detail, single-channel HD-video projection, 14 min 20 sec, four angled screens, wall plot, photographs. All images: Courtesy Hito Steyerl.   ART iT: You have a background in filmmaking,View More >

THE 55TH VENICE BIENNALE: THE ENCYCLOPEDIC PALACE   Koki Tanaka – “abstract speaking – sharing uncertainty and collective acts,” installation view, the Japan Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, 2013. Photo Keizo Kioku, courtesy the Japan Foundation.   Features Hito Steyerl: DocumentingView More >

V.   The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, performance, Dia:Beacon, New York, 2005. Photo Paula Court. All images: Courtesy Wako Works of Art, Tokyo.   ART iT: You mentioned how when you first came to Japan you wereView More >

IV.   Reanimation, installation view, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, 2013. All images: Courtesy Wako Works of Art, Tokyo.   ART iT: Two works which interest me and might even in some way be connected to the current piece, Reanimation,View More >

III   Volcano Saga, photograph, Iceland, 1985. Photo Joan Jonas. All images: Courtesy Wako Works of Art, Tokyo.   ART iT: You mention how in dealing with structure and form and the medium of video, your early performances allowed theView More >

II.   Hamletmachine (2000), four-channel video play, three wall projections and one floor projection on a bed of salt, surrounded with mirror reflecting material, sound, 20 minutes. All images: Courtesy Nalini Malani.   ART iT: Clearly national identity, national mythView More >