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]

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]

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]

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]

Kiiiiiii according to Kiiiiiii [read more]

You might be one of the 1.4 million who have already watched this unnerving/mesmerising Youtube clip, originally posted as an experiment to show a friend but subsequently spawning a series of copycats and launching Daito Manabe to an unexpected level of celebrity. But Daito is not just a geeky guy Youtubecasting himself from his bedroom doing fucked up things with gadgets on his face. Since graduating as a mathematician he has been active as a researcher, programmer, coder, hacker, sound / light designer, composer, DJ, VJ, video artist, and this list goes on [read more]

Kathy’s eerie and ritualistic performances are like nothing else; think moulin rouge meets meets victorian morality meets lucifer rising. And they are one of our first confirmed guests for the huge Kirin Big In Japan event that is taking place this December at CarriageWorks [read more]