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 possibly the most contrived and controlled built environments possible, airports are rather surreal places. Like disorienting black holes where time and space cease to exist in the same way, they are sites of heightened emotions (the drama of goodbyes and reunions, the anticipation of new journeys, the panic of missed flights) played out alongside intense boredom. Perfect places, I say, for transparent floating balloon people. From this week until November 3rd, Terminals 1 and 2 at Haneda Airport will be filled with digital public art projects, including human balloons, LED stars and video projections [read more]

Tatzu Nishi’s homes are finished! The instillations I wrote about several weeks ago are about to open to the public, and the artist will be discussing his work in a free public talk at the AGNSW on October 2 from 1-2.30pm. Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery is also holding a solo show for him from October 3–24 so we can all get totally Tatzud out. [read more]

Why bring art to the home when you can bring home to the art? Two new homes are currently being constructed outside the Art Gallery of NSW, swallowing up Gilbert Bayes’ monumental bronze equestrian statues. When they open up at the start of next month visitors will be able to enter via a ramp into a cosy bedroom or living room – perfectly reconstructed with windows, carpets and furnishings – with the larger-than-life hoarse and rider structures protruding out of the floor or bed. The project is the latest from Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi who has been building domestic spaces around public monuments, artworks and streetlights for over a decade. By incorporating familiar, pre-existing structures and images into temporary, intimate domains he literally recontextualises them, forcing us to reconsider the public/private divide. [read more]