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Crazy Hat & Long Ears is a duo formed last year by Tama Arts University students Ryoko Iwata and Saki Akiyama. Their Lewis Caroll-esque video works Our full courses and The law of the jungle on the table feature eating, glorious messiness, jungles on tables and general culinary absurdity [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 3:50 PM, November 30th, 2009 0 comments

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Prolific to the extent that only a collective of this many members could be, Chim↑Pom’s garbage, rat, crow, explosion and vomit favouring spur-of-the-moment projects are so broad and bountiful that they are difficult to keep up with [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 12:07 AM, November 28th, 2009 0 comments

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One day, I meet … Parts 1 + 2, the first works from the collaborative unit Ine wo Ueru hito, are teeming with visual trickery, reconfigured animals and the strangely comforting relentless mundanely of vacuuming [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 12:00 AM, November 26th, 2009 0 comments

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The first in a series of Kirin Big In Japan events is set to take place a week from today at CarriageWorks. Arriving direct from Tokyo early next week, special guests KATHYDaito ManabeMademoiselle Yulia and the Trippple Nippples will be performing live alongside the local experimental sound outfit Ben Baretto & Jeff Burch, with print, sculpture and video works also on show throughout the night [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 6:04 PM, November 24th, 2009 3 comments

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Lica and Naka of the fashion labels 20471120, Tokyo Recycle Projet and Zechia on how fashion can change the world  [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 12:00 AM, November 24th, 2009 1 comment

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Akihiko Amano on the art of language and the language of art [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 12:00 AM, November 22nd, 2009 0 comments

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The new media art festival CREAM makes for a good excuse to get aquatinted with the city of Yokohama, one of Japan’s most interesting new hubs for contemporary art  [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 12:00 AM, November 21st, 2009 2 comments

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Tetsushi Higashino’s ongoing works in progress include Hydroponic Nose Hair, an attempt to grow a plucked nose hair in water, and Pnoom, which sees him sneak around the neighbourhood on garbage collection day, making temporary stacked towers out of empty cans [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 5:00 AM, November 20th, 2009 0 comments

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A cave-like structure that appears both open and closed, rough and smooth, heavy and floating, the onishimaki + hyakudayuki space currently open MOT changes its form dramatically as you navigate through and around it [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 12:00 AM, November 20th, 2009 0 comments

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With new energy and expression being granted to everyday things like floors, furniture and air, the allure of Yukihiro Taguchi’s work is that of the ancient art form of puppetry; making the inanimate animate and creating life from lifelessness [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 8:18 PM, November 17th, 2009 2 comments

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Bringing together two of Japan’s most visionary and free spirited women, an installation from SANAA’s Kazuyo Sejima for Comme des Garçons has opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 1:00 AM, November 9th, 2009 4 comments

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The whitewashed dancers of the latest Ishinha production are individual parts of a whole who are systematically arranged and rearranged like cogs in the most strange and magnificent machine imaginable [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 11:05 PM, November 7th, 2009 0 comments

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Kiiiiiii according to Kiiiiiii [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 7:44 PM, November 7th, 2009 2 comments

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Currently celebrating its 5th year, The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art remains an extraordinary feature of the quiet, remote and inclement town of Kanazawa [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 12:00 AM, November 4th, 2009 0 comments

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Continuing until the end of this week at the Centre For Cosmic Wonder Tokyo: original prints from the Cosmic Wonder Free Press Sunday Edition [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 12:00 AM, November 2nd, 2009 0 comments

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One of several art spaces that have in recent years started taking advantage of the relatively cheaper rent in Tokyo’s garment district, Gallery αM (pronounced ‘alpha em’) is enjoying their new permanent home in the quiet basement space of an old building near Bakurocho Station. [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 12:00 AM, November 2nd, 2009 0 comments

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What if the Power Rangers reformed as a Japanese hiphop crew with degrees in sculpture? Taku Obata’s work suggests the result would be rather awesome [read more]

Posted by amelia groom 3:16 AM, November 1st, 2009 1 comment
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