Film
An Artist Duo’s Ingenious Movie About US Military Bases in Japan
The documentary, titled Making a Perfect Donut, is particularly timely given protests currently going on over the construction of a new base in Henoko.
Jeremy Woolsey
Jeremy Woolsey is an MA student at Tokyo University of the Arts. You can find links to his writing at www.jirikitariki.com. He tweets at @jeremywoolz.
Art
Condensing Years of Internet Browsing History into a Single Frame
Kazuki Umezawa's “internet landscapes” vividly capture the schizophrenic experience of the internet.
Art
If It Wasn’t Made as Art, Can a Curator Make It Art?
Curator Nobumasa Kushino raises questions about how and to what extent items and actions not originally intended to be art can be rendered such, and whether they should be.
Art
Artists Stage a Contemporary Art “Black Market” in Tokyo
The event was organized to address an existential question that haunts Japanese artists: Is art possible when there’s only a limited domestic market to support it?