Volume 11
Currently sending postcards to herself and contemplating a project involving invisible things, Eri was last seen planning how to use a smell as her contribution to the sketchbook.
Volume 15
On a sunny but cold Sunday, we travelled to Moriya to find out more about the Arcus project.
We had a look around the buildings and then a chat with the programme director. After that we met artist in residence Goh Ideta who was kind enough to spend time showing us his portfolio and talking about his works.
His profile on the Arcus website sums his work up pretty succinctly
Works with experimental devices that utilizes light, shadow, and space to understand “perception,”“sensation,” and “existence.”
or you can check out his website here, but I get the feeling these are works you have to spend time inside to really do them any justice.
Volume 19
Googling for “artist led projects, tokyo” eventually led me to Kandada. Their website is in Japanese (of course!), but armed with their English language map and this blog entry giving an interesting snippet of background information, I went to have a look.
First up, I really liked the show they had on (Hong-Goo Kang ‘s Road to Eouido), but then I’m probably a bit partial to journey projects at the moment…
Secondly, completely getting into the spirit of passing the sketchbooks on to other artists (!), the director volunteered staff member Ueno Masao to participate on Kandada’s behalf.
Welcome aboard Masao!
Peer-to-Peer Sketchbooks regained
I’d got to the point where I was resigned to having lost the 8 sketchbooks I shipped over for dispersal in Japan.
Due to arrive in my first week here (ie over 2 months ago) they eventually turned up this week, looking like they’d been sat on by a sumo wrestler or something.
I’m not sure what customs thought they were going to find, but I hope they weren’t too disappointed…
Still, that now means that rather than the 4 sketchbooks I thought I’d have to make do with, I now have 12 in total and things are going full steam ahead to invite people to participate. That means lots of visits to galleries and project spaces looking for… well, I’m not sure what, but I know it when I see it!
Volume 21
Volume 21 gets posted to Kyushu where the first page might have something to do with clay, something to do with computers or something to do with something completely different…
Volume 9
Surrounded by artists’ books of all shapes, sizes and types, Pepper’s Project not only agreed to take part in the project, but also completed their page there and then!
oh yeah…
Every so often I get a little kick up the pants that reminds me where I am.
(Click on the image below for a decent size version.)
not free tissues
On Suturday 4th of November, 2006, the Free Hugs Campaign came to Shibuya.
After 3 free hugs and managing to completely confuse them, I gave them a free map and continued with my journey…
update:
and the video appears on YouTube:
band practice
Come back home; start to open front door; hear loudspeaker below; peer over railing; there’s a band. It’s not moving. Band starts moving and it’s LOUD! Grab camera; start filming; battery dies.