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The 2012 Aqua Metropolis Osaka Festival offered a series of delights, including a giant inflatable kokeshi doll produced by the artist collective Yotta Groove. There’s something both benign and menacing about the cute blankness of the kokeshi doll when it’s magnified to kaiju proportions. Yotta Groove wasn’t the only collective active at the Aqua Metropolis […]
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I find the art and animation of Shoji Goto (後藤 章治), husband of Yoshimi P-We of OOIOO and Boredoms fame, to be some of the most incredibly unique and exciting work around. His video for OOIOO’s song “UMO” engages in a future-primitive aesthetic that manages to convey the urgency of ecological disaster while remaining delightfully […]
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rubber ducky, you’re the one
In addition to Yanobe Kenji’s magnificent Torayan exhibit, the 2009 Aqua Metropolis Osaka event had a lot to offer, including community art displays, installations that emphasized the potential of recyclable materials, lots of information about the history of water use and management in Osaka, and — to top it all off — a giant, yellow, […]
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the 2007 Kobe Biennale
November 23rd was the last day of the 2009 Kobe Biennale, which I went to visit last week. The Biennale is held at the waterfront site of Meriken Park, under the shadow of Kobe’s famous Port Tower and right next to the Maritime Museum. Because Kobe is historically a port city, the organizers of the […]
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Mông-Lan in Tokyo
I had to leave the Viola exhibit early to meet my friend Mông-Lan, who I hadn’t seen for several years, even though she lives in Tokyo. Lan is an incredible poet, photographer, and painter (and a dancer too) — i.e., quite simply a talent in the classic sense of that term. Her latest book of […]
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