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2027
- Contract
- In Conclusion
- Quit Time Company
- The Radio GEMPEG Show 4
- A Call from the Man
- A Man With Hat
- The Radio GEMPEG Show 3
- Lost in Talking
- A Curious Phone Call
- The Radio GEMPEG Show 2
- Phone Call From 21LO
- The Radio GEMPEG Show
- Challenge the Audio Network
- Return From the Darkness
- Are You There?
- Advertising of GEMPEG
- Piles of Stock
- GEMPEG
- Rotary Press
- Cut and Paste
- Edit the Picked Up Trash
- Rummage Through Garbage Day After Day
- Inside the Garbage Bag
- At 27:42 A.M. on June 8th in 2027
- The Late Alien
- Meet at 3 A.M.
- The Backlash Against Paper Media
- The 21LO’s Room
- 21LO
- Future
- I WANT TO MAKE A BOOK, TOO.
- EXPO 2015
- Hundred Sound of Bracket
- Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts
- The Medium is the Message
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- No Life King
- Book of Life
- Unfinished TV
- TV Dinner
- The Young K, Time Alone
- Curry St.24
- Freezed Desire To Labor
- Time Company
- Sluggish Days
- I'm K
- Newspaper has gone
- Year 2027!
EXPO 2015
It's 2027. Born in 2007, the main character K has no girlfriend and is part of a cultural minority with few friends. In a paperless age with no books, magazines and newspapers, K collects the old media of the 20th century. His little dream is to "make a book" with his friend 21LO! But it goes against the law to make books in the age when the distribution or even printing is impossible and severely restricted without an official government emblem...
EPISODE 17
Graphic design: Hiroshi Iguchi
EXPO 2015 by Laurie Anderson
The best piece during her lifetime. The theme song for Expo 2015 is a 74-minute long track continuously looping to almost stupefy your sense of time. The art director who created for the entire Expo including the jacket work was a Japanese designer that appears to be very honorable. I've seen "FU-FU" on TV very often. It was my favorite character when I was a kid.
Having lost an ID at the cosmic expo, my mother couldn't come down to the earth for 2 months. Having just got to school at that time, I as a kid wept away every day during the 2 months. This reminds me of that painful memory.
Well, it is horrible the musician broke onto the UK's charts with this music in the 1980s.
Come to think of it, one of my co-workers at Time Company told me he had been to her solo exhibition about 20 years ago, which was awesome. He always boasts about it. He said Laurie Anderson was married to Lou Reed. Is it true?
Text and images: Kurando Furuya, Hitoshi Odajima, Tomoki Kurokawa
Translation: Mariko Takei
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