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]
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]
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]
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 KATHY, Daito Manabe, Mademoiselle 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]
Lica and Naka of the fashion labels 20471120, Tokyo Recycle Projet and Zechia on how fashion can change the world [read more]
Akihiko Amano on the art of language and the language of art [read more]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Kiiiiiii according to Kiiiiiii [read more]
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]
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]
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]
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]
