‘But I am talking about the time when there wasn’t any Earth underneath or anything else solid, not even a … More
Category: art
Where I am when I am not here: Ayaka Nishi, Carsten Rabe and Jessica Leinen (Galerie Speckstraße, Hamburg)
Objects and words also have hollow places in which a past sleeps, as in everyday acts of walking, eating, going to … More
Tokyo Photographic Research at CO-OP/ Unseen Photo Fair (Amsterdam)
Tokyo Photographic Research (website soon to be launched) is heading towards its phase two, digging deeper and bolder into Tokyo’s … More
Art in Making: AIR Onomichi (Komyouji Kaikan) & Abandoned House Reclamation Project
‘Certainly, for artists of all stripes, the unknown, the idea or the form or the tale that has not yet … More
Kyoto is Life: International Photo Festival Kyotographie 2018 (Kyoto)
I am visiting Kyoto and Japan for the first time ever. I was never going to be objective about … More
Day 3: Osaka’s nomadic art scene
One thing is noticeable in Osaka’s art scene: a general lack of gallery space and an attempt to create something … More
The Alchemy of Matter: ‘Confluence’ by Takesada Matsutani & Aliska Lahusen (Manggha Museum, Kraków)
Eternity will be velocity or pause (Emily Dickinson) … More
Takashi Kawashima, Absence and Ambience (Daiwa Foundation, London 4 – 27 October 2017)
“Maybe it is not the destructiveness of the volcano that pleases most, though everyone loves a conflagration, but its defiance … More
BOOK, Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts. From Kishida Ryūsei to Miyazaki Hayao (2016) by Michael Lucken
In his book A Japanese Mirror (1984), Ian Buruma, a Dutch historian and author of numerous volumes on Japan describes … More
Ryoichi Kurokawa, Unfold (FACT, Liverpool 2016)
The power of data with its immense diversity, unconceivable scale and sheer visual potency escapes definition, despite being encoded in … More