how to draw a line on the road, 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.

take some plastic cups and just fall it down many times until all the cups standing up, 2006

buckets & balls, 2005

cause is effect, 2005

note: i try to capture the moment of something moving without any artistic action which shot in my parent house and its surroundings.

everything is everything, single version, 2006

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.

how to close car doors, 2007

watch the water go away, 2006

Cleaning up the city hall by using politician's clothes, 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, 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, 2008

each and every (excerpt: 6min 10sec), 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, 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

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).