title: how to draw a line on the road
year: 2007
note: this is the work made for a special occasion of the show called "Re-trait" at Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris. i was thinking about a possibility of how i can deal with the "drawing" in our every activity. so that i asked my mam to borrow her car to make milk drawing on the road.
title: take some plastic cups and just fall it down many times until all the cups standing up
year: 2006
note: I want to find something miracle in my life. So that I just took plastic cup then threw it and waited something happen.
title: buckets & balls
yea: 2005
note:
This is the work for my degree show in the art school. I never used the student studio during the master course. So it is the last chance to use the studio for my art practice. I made a simple task that throwing a ball into a bucket for the last project in the art school.
title: cause is effect
year: 2005
note: i try to capture the moment of something moving without any artistic action which shot in my parent house and its surroundings.
title: Everything is Everything, single channel version
year: 2006/2007(original 8 channel installation version was made in 2006, single channel version was edited in 2007)
time: 6 minutes and 21 seconds
note:
On the occasion of the Taipei Biennale, me, my friends and my gallerist went to Taipei city, then found mere materials in daily use which is you can easily find in most of asian city. We were collecting the moment of improvised "performance" with those objects to activate possibility of how we could see it differently.
My goal is not making people to understand my thought or massage through my work. My work might be a same kinds of event that we saw everyday, hopefully. For instance, there is a everyday event that a dish crash down on a floor in a restaurant somewhere. So I try to reach such a one-time event in my practice to reveal the reality behind.
title: how to close car doors
year: 2007
note: It is a idea of a alternative way to close the car doors from outside.
title: watch the water go away
year: 2006
note: There was brand-new stove in the kitchen. When I dropped some water on it, it looked like cosmic phenomena.
title: Cleaning up the city hall by using politician's clothes
year: 2008
cooperation: the University of Applied Arts Vienna and quartier21
other informations: Location: Rathaus (The City hall of Vienna)
note: I was considering how I could approach to some political issues. And I had a opportunity to do new project for the theme of "Fashion & Politics" in Vienna. I inspired by the curator's idea to combine fashion and politics at the same time. I asked a politician to use his jacket and shirt and pants for my project there. Then a tailer transformed it into a shape of floor cleaner cloth. And a cleaner person cleaned the floor and wiped window, table with that cloth at the city hall. So it is not a political project, it is a project with politicians' dress in different way to use.
title: Simple Gesture and Temporary Sculpture
year: 2008
note: This work was shot in different locations such as Mashiko, which is my hometown, Tokyo where I lived at that time and Vienna where I spent a month during a residency. I collected random moments depicting how I interacted with objects in daily use and in ordinary places.
title: Then, a whole bunch of basins crash down to the floor of the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
year: 2008
note: On the occasion of the thematic show focus on "laughter" in Mori Art Museum, I did a project about Japanese comedy from 80's. After one comedian group called Drifters invented the typical end for their show in TV program, it influenced to younger generations afterwards. And I think it is one of the phenomena for Japanese comedy scene. What they did is like this, when a comedian said funny things at the end, there was a basin fell down on his head(And then he could show his funny face too). So I took that image without anybody but a lot of basins into the end of the exhibition in the Museum.
title: each and every (excerpt: 6min 10sec)
year: 2004
originally 30 minute loop
note: This work captures the process of how a cook works during his regular day in a restaurant. There are few cooks but the camera follows just one. It shows the complexity of his process where preparing, cutting and washing do not progress linearly.
title: approach to an old house
year: 2008
note: On the occasion of the show called "Platform Seoul", the curator suggested me to construct my project in the abandoned house. I used each space for different actions. For instance, I climbed up a pile of red chairs in front of the house to come up to the balcony, pulled out a curtain down in a room, poured a lot of beer into a bush in the garden, cut a rope to fall down beer cases on the floor. Then compiled scene was projected in one room in the second floor of the house.
title: 24 hours on minute, 2008
note: I wrote 1441 numbers of each digital time in 24 hours from 00:00 to 24:00 by hand. And compressed into a minute.
title: Rooftop walking, Going up and Step down
year: 2009
material: 2 channel videos
time: 8 minutes and 38 seconds, 4 minutes and 22 seconds.
in cooperation with arrow factory, beijing, china for "just around the corner"
date: october 11, 2009
location: jianchang hutong, beijing
camera: Wang Wei
camera assistant: iLoova Fan
arrow factory: Pauline J. Yao, Rania Ho, Wang Wei
note: i asked local people to use their car to go up onto the rooftop and step down(channel 1). I walked on the rooftop, one place to the other. there is a place where the roofs connects each other(channel 2).
title: Men & Women
year: 2004
material: DVD, color, sound
time: 38 seconds
note: it shows 100 different ways to hold a beer and a plate by hands.
title: Take an orange and throw it away without thinking too much
year: 2006
material: DVD, color, sound
time: 7 minutes and 12 seconds
credit: created in residency programme with Le Pavillon, art research laboratory of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
note: On the occasion of a one-day solo project at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, I made this installation with fresh oranges. I bought it from the farmers’ market in front of Palais and threw all of them into the staircase between Palais and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris to capture an image of how oranges fall.