title: Nothing related, but something could be associated
date: September 25 - November 28
venue: Yerba buena center for the arts, San Francisco
http://www.ybca.org/exhibitions/
PDF > for_YBCA_all.pdf
Brochure > Koki Tanaka Brochure.pdf
1:
title: everyday statement (cheese toast)
year: 2010
material: photograph
size: 48” x 70”
note:
Making cheese toast as daily routine is an example of creation. Everyday we create consciously and unconsciously.
2:
title: a haircut by 9 hairdressers at once (second attempt)
year: 2010
material: HD video, two 11” x 8.5” drawings by hairdressers
time: 28 minutes
Location: Zindågi Salon, San Francisco
Production and Commission: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
note:
This idea for this piece came to me while walking around Toronto, Canada one day. Inspired by the many hair salons I encountered I began wondering “what would happen if I invited several hairdressers, with different backgrounds, to work together to cut one person’s hair?”
I revisited this idea in San Francisco, CA. Instead of three, I invited nine hairdressers to cut one model’s hair in this piece. I let the hairdressers work without interfering with the organic nature of the process. The hairdressers begin with a consultation, addressing the limits and scope of the cut. The hairdressers then discussed how to divide the task considering the carried skill sets of each person. This unexpected atmosphere of competition came into play and exemplified the difficulty of collaboration and the various ways people react in such a situation.
3:
title: process of blowing flour
year: 2010
material: photograph
size: 70” x 48”, set of 4
note:
I blew wheat flour on a street in San Francisco.
4:
title: a painting to public
year: 2010
material: document photograph, receipt from the thrift store
size: 24” x 36”, 8.5” x 5.5”
note:
An idea of how we show our art to public, which is normally related to a gallery space or public institutions. But when I looked around city facilities, there is many places where we might show something to public.
I donated my painting to a thrift store in San Francisco. And documented how they displayed the painting in the store.
5:
title: showing objects to a dog
year: 2010
material: HD video, objects (broom, bucket, roll of craft paper, picket fence, handle, air filter, styrofoam cup, flash light, blue tarp, wood stick, toilet brush, pipe, cardboard box, paint roller, dish rack, rope)
time: 3 minutes 56 seconds
note:
I took care my friend's dog “Sheday” for six months while he was out of town. Named “Sheday,” The dog appeared curious about what I was doing. I captured his inquisitive reactions to common objects and materials as a way of rethinking how we “see” sculpture and derive a different criteria.
6:
title: cups on a car
year: 2010
material: HD video
time: 1 minute 7 seconds loop
camera: Daniel Gorrell, Andrew Eckmann
driver: Kim Silva
note:
I once saw a person driving a car, forgetting he had left a coffee cup on the roof. I imagine someone forgetting many cups and driving away.
7:
title: folding billboard, 14’ x 48’
year: 2010
material: used billboard, 7.88’ x 14’, 15.76’ x 14’
corporation: John Ley, Account Executive, CBS Outdoor-San Francisco Bay Area
camera: Tomo Saito
note:
A billboard in a city appears immovable in terms of size, but the content/surface is changed from time to time without notice or attention. I wonder how big a billboard surface is and how I can fold it into a mobile size.
8:
title: History is written from someone else’s perspective, someone you don’t know. Making our own history requires each of us to rewrite it from our own point of view.
year: 2010
material: pencil on paper
size: 9” x 12”, set of 13
note:
By hand, I traced historical images of Japanese contemporary art. My process of tracing become a reaction to their actions.
9:
title: from something small to something large /portrait of space
year: 2010
material: leftover materials from YBCA
size: dimension variable
note:
Leftover materials from previous YBCA exhibitions are placed against a wall near the corridor. Using a simple rule, I arranged it from small to large.
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previous video works compilation
10-1:
title: Simple Gesture and Temporary Sculpture
year: 2008
material: HDV, color, sound
time: 3 minutes and 26 seconds
10-2:
title: approach to an old house
year: 2008
material: HDV, color, sound
time: 3 minutes and 35 seconds
10-3:
title: Rooftop, Going up and Step down
year: 2009
material: HDV, color, sound
time: 8 minutes and 38 seconds
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