During 3 days from January 29th to 31st 2010, G-tokyo 2010 was held as an unique art fair in the form of exhibiting the front line of art made based on the clear exhibition theme, which was different from the conventi...

HIGH5 3

2010.2.9　 Text: Kayo Tamura

The creative conference HIGH5 3 took place at Osanbashi Hall in Yokohama on January 23. Organized by the creative portal site HITSPAPER, HIGH5 was held for the 3rd time around 6 presentations with the theme "Galapagos...

POSTMAINSTREAM PERFOMING ARTS FESTIVAL PPAF 2010

2010.2.1　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

Entering into the 2010's, the film expression pursues more virtual reality, and the real society gets more expanded. In such age, the expression at the limited time and space is getting to take on a different meaning ...

REBECCA HORN: REBELLION IN SILENCE, DIALOGUE BETWEEN RAVEN AND WHALE

2010.1.18　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

Rebellion in Silence, Dialogue between Raven and Whale. Concert for Anarchy, 1990, Photo: Attilio Maranzano © 2009 Rebecca Horn As the last year of the 2000s, 2009 was a big year for art exhibitions held in Ja...

ANDREAS TEMPLIN: AS IF TO NOTHING, CHARLES DARWIN CRYING AND OTHER WORKS

2010.1.18　 Text: Bonnie Oeni

‘It’s the challenge of making an artwork. It’s like looking at a big pool and going on to a jumping board, going up to the highest point that you can jump off from – and being courageous enough to jump.’ With that...

FITC TOKYO 2009

2010.1.17　 Text: Kayo Tamura

The Flash festival, FITC Tokyo 2009 was held in Japan for the first time on November 28th 2009. Photo: Kayo Tamura Started in Canada in 2002, FITC has held 18 events over 8 years at 9 cities in 4 countries wor...

CREATOR’S PARK VOL.1

2009.12.7　 Text: mina

For 3 days from Oct. 22nd to the 24th, "CREATOR'S PARK vol.1" took place at CLASKA in Meguro. The commemorative first event used "green" as its theme. It was a great success including work exhibits, sales and pr...

MATHIAS EXHIBITION “ALL ABOUT DEMOCRACY”

2009.11.30　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

Mathias is a Dutch artist, who draws political issues in his illustrations. His first solo exhibition is held from November 20th of 2009 to January 31st of 2010 at DIESEL DENIM GALLERY AOYAMA. Reception Party, Ma...

DESIGN FESTA VOL. 30

2009.11.18　 Text: Kayo Tamura

Design Festa, one of the biggest event in Asia where more than 8,500 artists participated from around the world, celebrated its 30th anniversary this fall. But its amazing not only because of the astonishing number of...

AUSTRIAN CONTEMPORARY FASHION

2009.11.12　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

Austria's great creativity with their unique, elegant and refined ideas. Involved with sales, merchandising and press in worldwide fashion, DUNE has been running a select shop, Nid, featuring unique fashion bra...

TOKYO GRAPHIC PASSPORT

2009.11.11　 Text: Kayo Tamura

Hosted by +81Creatives – an editorial team for one of the Japanese creative magazines known as +81 – their first creative event TOKYO GRAPHIC PASSPORT took place over two days from October 11-12, with an aim to of...

LY EXHIBITION “PILED UP”

2009.9.1　 Text: Tatsuhiko Akutsu

Ordinary people have little memory of their dreams at night. Even when they see something interesting in their dream, it's usually only a fragmentary memory and subsequently a small conversation topic. But, Ly is...