Fuyuki Yamakawa is an ‘avant-garde khoomei singer’ and performance/installation artist who works with bare light bulbs, yogic breath, medical equipment, modified musical instruments and the amplified sound of his heartbeat [read more]
In a move to increase international exposure of young Japanese fashion designers, the Japan Fashion Week organization presented a handful of labels at New York Fashion Week last month [read more]
In the Gifu Prefecture of Japan is Yoro Park, a site of reversible destiny by architecture/poetry duo Arakawa & Gins. Appropriately, they provide clear ‘directions for use’ [read more]
As part of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s ongoing inquiry into the scientific and philosophical implications of the medium of photography, a Lightning Fields installation is planned for the Biennale of Sydney this May [read more]
Japan has always been poised to show the rest of the world the allure of shadows and blackness; to remind us that as stars cannot be seen in the day, it is darkness that gives form to light [read more]
The Japanese word for “photograph”, shashin, comes from sha (“to reproduce or reflect”) and shin (“truth”). The act of photography, then, consists of taking the truth and making a copy of it on a surface. [read more]
Picture books, wolves, red shoes, forests, metamorphosis, Buddha and traditional Japanese architecture are the the main recurring motifs in Tomoko Konoike’s mythologically-derived work that sets out to examine man’s relationship with nature [read more]
Calling emerging artists and curators to submit proposals for projects with a Japanese influence, to be put on as a solo or group exhibition with a grant of $3000 and chance to win a trip to Japan [read more]
“I wanted to make a space with very ambiguous borderlines, which has a fluctuation between local spaces and the overall space,” says Junya Ishigami of his new structure at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology [read more]
With choreography by Yuka Kobayashi and costumes by Taisuke Abe, She de cusu oh chee! is a Japanese performance troupe of escapist alter egos [read more]
Soap bubbles, inflatable alter egos and crystal baubles all feature amongst the handful of artists representing Japan in the 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, currently showing at GOMA in Brisbane [read more]
Tokyo Wonder Site Director Yusaku Imamura says “we are not about getting the flower, we’re about planting the seed.” But that’s not to say there are no early flowers to be found amongst the germination [read more]
Coinciding with the Big In Japan! event at CarriageWorks last week, Spooky Action at a Distance is now open at Black & Blue Gallery [read more]
The first ever Big In Japan! event, as captured by Dan Boud [read more]
Prior to the opening of the Spooky Action at a Distance exhibition tomorrow evening, Dorkbot will be hosting a presentation with body hacker Daito Manabe at 5.30 sharp in the gallery. Everyone who saw his incredible performance at the Big In Japan event last night is itching (twitching?) to learn more about his practice, so do come along and hear him talk, and demonstrate the technology he uses [read more]
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]
For many years Yokohama was considered little more than a dormitory city for Tokyo, but in recent years it has established itself as home to some of the most exciting cultural events and artistic communities [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]