*Candy Factory Projects |
Takuji Kogo |
| Projects in progress | Comics | Online Ads | Robot | Homes for America | Non_sites | American Sitcom | A Love Supreme | Good News | Non_broadcasting time |
Takuji Kogo
in collaboration with
| Federico Baronello | How to reach Lampedusa | Vittoria | LIBRINO | Online Ads Italy | ||
| Mike Bode | XIOBEI | KANEBO | HOMI/TOYOTA | NUNOTANI | American Sitcom | |
| Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries |
DMZ | A LOVE SUPREME | STATEMENTS | HALBEATH | YOUR J.O.B WON'T STAND A CHANCE |
KIMI KIM JALAN JALAN |
| Charles Lim Yi Yong |
BEACHES | |||||
| John Miller | ROBOT | Berlin Childhood | Swedish Gentleman | |||
| Keiichi Miyagawa | SANRIDUKA | Self-Censored Live Broadcast |
KITAKYUSHU | KB
2007 KB 2009 / 2011 |
KB 2013 KB 2015 |
This land is mine |
| Sean Snyder | U.S. BASES OKINAWA IWAKUNI |
*Candy Factory Projects / Online Ads
*Candy Factory transforms fragments of information such as Spam messages, personal ads, street signs, propaganda and protest slogans into original music.The project had been shown at various Candy Factory Projects with exterior sound installation, displaying the text animation at abandoned buildings, public park and art institutions.
| 終戦ノ詔・The Musical 2023 |
Bloodthirsty Unsympathetic Collective 2023 |
A *Candy Factory Project Brilliant Corners (2021) |
 Singles Collection Robot / Takuji Kogo + John Miller Small World (2021) |
MUSIC FROM *CANDY FACTORY 2010 |
 IN PERSON / ROBOT Northdrive Press NY (2006) |
 *Candy Factory Projects Art Metropole Toronto (2003) |
Holiday by *Candy Factory Soap land Records Japan (2003) |
A *CANDY FACTORY PROJECT
HOMES for AMERICA
U.S. MILITARY BASE IN OKINAWA! WE SELL! WE BUY!
WEB-RETRO / 웹-레트로 Seoul Museum of Contemporary Art 2019ROBOT (Takuji Kogo + John Miller)
| Why Put Stuff On The Wall? From " Michael Asher Writings 1973-1983 On Works 1969-1979 " September 4-0ctober 5, 1969 '557087' Seattle Art Museum Pavilion |
Robot Singles Collection Takuji Kogo + John Miller Small World Screening / Friday, May 21, 2021 The Box Los Angeles, CA 90013 |
The Mask of Happy From an interview with Erich Fromm |
Societies of Control From "Postscript on the Societies of Control" Gilles Deleuze |
| OOO From "The Speculative Turn: Graham Harman |
Be Like Me | The Photographic Poster of a Toothbrush Texts from Vilém Flusser Exhibition: Terms and Conditions: A Sonata for Two Women Prosjektroms Normanns Norway 2019, April 5 - May 5 |
Fulfillment Center |
| Uncle Sam can be the white dwarf Texts from Donald Judd |
TASTE YOUR DAY Texts from Alan Watts |
BELOW 14TH ST. | DETUMESCENCE text from DETUMESCENCE by Dan Graham 1969 |
| PERFORMER, AUDIENCE, MIRROR: THE MUSICAL Words: from the performance "Performer, Audience, Mirror" by Dan Graham at PS.1 1977 SCREENING EVENT Übersetzung, Translation (Reprise) : HBK Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig Germany April 8 2017 |
GRACEFUL, MYTHOLOGICAL, LIFE-SIZE Words: from the performance "Museum Highlights " by Andrea Fraser at Philadelphia Museum of Art 1991 |
Open to All Ages & Ethnicities NBK Berlin |
A MOMENT OF ZEN EXHIBITION CYBORG DREAMS 83 Pitt Street New York, New York 10002 March 4-20, 2017 |
| WHY DO THINGS HAVE OUTLINES? Words from "Ecology of Mind" Gregory Bateson (So What / Miles Davis Cover) |
SONGS FOR BERLIN CHILDHOOD In collaboration with AURA ROSENBERG Texts from Walter Benjamin / Berlin Childhood Circa 1900 |
Aichi Triennial 2016 | Little about me New Museum NY |
| ART IN POP 2015 MAGASIN |
AU MILIEU DES CHOSES : IMPRIMONS, COLLECTIONNONS! LES ARTS AU MUR ARTOTHÈQUE France 2018 |
Metropictures NY JOHN MILLER HERE IN THE REAL WORLD 2015 Suburban Past Time 2012 Social Portraits / Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe / 2013 The Totality of All Things as They Actually Exist Galerie Barbara Weiss 2010 |
Personsl Ads Songs in NY Scream / Fargfabriken Sweden 2004 Global Consulting NY 2004 |
*Candy Factory Projects in SEOUL
May 9 - June 9 2019 LOOP Seoul| THE FOREIGN DOMESTIC WORKER SHALL NOT GET MARRIED IN SINGAPORE | A *Candy Factory Project / COMICS | *Candy Factory Projects in SINGAPORE 2018 |
There is no ghost after the revolution Street views of 小北 广州 / Xiobei Guangzhou China aka Chocolate City. Takuji Kogo + Mike Bode / Operation PRD: All the Way South Research Fund Guangdong Times Museum GUANGZHOU CHINA MAY 2018 |
| 예쁨뿜뿜♡ Apgueong Subway Station, South Korea filled with advertisement posters for plastic surgery clinics. The district is also known as "Beauty Belt". There are about 500 plastic surgery clinics in the area. |
Nước Tăng Lực (Number one energy drink ) A street corner at Ho Chi Min City Vietnam. The old style kinetic billboard advertise the celebration of 70 years independence of the country. It turns into the herbal tea and energy drink ads. |
UTOPIA GOGO Animated street view of Walking Street Pattaya Thailand |
Corso Sicilia Animated street view of Corso Sicilia Catania Italy |
| *Candy Factory Projects 2020 | Korean Protest Slogans 내 인생은 너의 야동이 아니야 My Life Is Not Your Porn’ Korean Protest Slogan #1 Animated protest slogans against hidden spy cameras and sexual harassment at Seoul in 2018. Exhibition : Echo Chamber: Sound Effects Seoul 2019. Alt Space Loop. NO / Korean Protest Slogan #3 Animated protest poster against Japanese government designed by Korean protesters in Seoul 2019. |
TAKUJI KOGO / COMICS 6 video installation A series of animated panoramic street views and architectural environments from specific sites. Kultivera 2019 Sweden |
NON SITES/ TAKUJI KOGO
2005 - in progress| Aichi Triennial /Nagoya Japan 2016 | Kalmar Konstmuseum Sweden 2015 | Plastic Myth / Asia Culture Center Gwangju South Korea 2015 | Mother/Land Kurumaya Museum of Art Tochigi Japan 2014 | *Candy Factory Projects in Rome /Auditorium Parco della Musica Rome ITALY 2012 |
| JAPAN EXPO Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center / The Japan Cultural Institute in Paris FRANCE 2012 | KITAKYUSHU BIENNIAL in SINGAPORE 2012 | TAKUJI KOGO / NON_SITES /Linnman Gallery Jönköping SWEDEN 2012 | Sandy
Brown Berlin GERMANY 2010 Künstlerhaus Stuttgart GERMANY 2010 |
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography The Ebisu International Festival Tokyo JAPAN 2009 |
| Kiatakyushu Biennial 2009 | Takuji Kogo / Japan @ Rooseum Mueum SWEDEN 2005 |
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES + TAKUJI KOGO
| A LOVE SUPREME KOREAN + ENGLISH (A love supreme / John Coltrane Cover) Revolution Will Not Be Televised/ ArKO Museum, Seoul, Korea 8 December 2017 ~ 28 January 2018 A LOVE SUPREME ENGLISH |
KIMI KIM JALAN JALAN Aichi Triennial 2016 Private myseum Singapore 2015 |
ASMR MY DMZ DUB Kitakyushu Bienniale 2013 |
DEMILITARIZED ZONE BUS TOUR WITH BULGOGI LUNCH Kitakyushu Biennial in Berlin ZK/U Berlin Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik 2012 Kitakyushu Biennial 2011 Nam June Paik Art Center 2009 |
| YOUR J.O.B WON'T STAND A CHANCE SCREAM FARGFABRIKEN STOCKHOLM SWEDEN 2004 |
STATEMENTS KIrakyushu Biennial 2007 Kyiv Biennial 2015 | WILL I EVER STOP SEARCHING FOR YOU? / NON_SITES Plastic Myth / Asia Culture Center Gwangju South Korea 2015 |
POETRY READING_I JUST QUIT MY JOB TODAY |
| CAMPAIGN & PRODUCTS KITAKYUSHU MUNICIPAL MUSEUM OF ARTS JAPAN 2004 ONLINE PROJECT in collaboration with YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES TAKUJI KOGO + KEIICHI MIYAGAWA |
HALBEATH A *CANDY FACTORY PROJECT 2001 New Media Scotland 2002-2004 ctheorymultimedia C ornell University 2003 BOOGIE WOOGIE WONDERLAND Yamaguchi 2003 LOVE Long / Asia Society Hong Kong Center 2018 |
Korean web art festival Seoul 2001 Curated by Marc Voge |
Think the same Project 8 1999 Total museum Seoul Curated by Marc Voge |
HALBEATHA promotional video clip for a shuttered microchip plant in Scotland, set to the traditional Korean song Arirang.The large-scale plant was originally built by Hyundai in 1996, in Halbeath, a village located between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Then, in the wake of the 1997 Asian monetary crisis, the South Korean company aborted the project before production could begin. The U.S. company Motorola bought the mothballed factory in 2000, but shortly thereafter it also withdrew support, and the brand-new 150-acre facility never produced a microchip. Music : "Arirang," 1946 From "Arirang," Synnara Music Co. Ltd. SYC-0001, 1991 Shim Yeun-ok is accompanied by the Soerabol Orchestra Arrangement by Lee Jae-ho. "Arirang," the iconic, traditional Korean song of love and heartbreak, has been played and sung by musicians throughout Korea's modern history to express memory, sorrow, pride, and propaganda. The song, a national symbol for both North and South Korea, originated, some say, during the Chosun Dynasty (1392-1910); others say it has existed since the Shilla Dynasty, more than 1,000 years ago. In 1926, "Arirang" became a hit as the theme song of the first Korean movie of the same title, which depicted the sorrow of Koreans living under Japanese rule. Ironically, even Japanese pop singers, beginning in the 1930s, created their own arrangements of the song. During the Korean War (1950-53), an American turned "Arirang" into a march to celebrate the heroism of the American-led United Nations forces. In 1985, the song was sung in Pyongyang by an art troupe from Seoul during a reunion of families separated since the Korean War. And in 2002, North Korea organized the Arirang Festival of gymnastics and art featuring 10,000 performers, including students and young children, to celebrate the birthday of the nation's founder Kim Il-sung. It was also this secretive and cash-strapped country's first festival seeking to promote tourism and develop a new source of foreign currency. In the South, these days, "Arirang" is an unofficial national anthem that performers arrange into countless melodic or lyrical versions played in any kind of mode: pop, rock, folk, jazz, symphonic, even hip-hop. Takuji Kogo + Young-hae chang heavy Industries 2001 |
Takuji Kogo *Candy Factory Projects
The Private Museum Singapore 06 October — 17 December 2017A *Candy Factory Project
This Land Is Mine / この土地は私のもの
Takuji Kogo In collaboration with following artists:
Mike Bode
Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries
John Miller
Keiichi Miyagawa
Kitakyushu Biennial in Aichi ＠Aichi Triennial 2016
あいちトリエンナーレ2016
8/11-10/23. 2016 11:00-19:00
Naka-ku Nishiki 2−7−11 Nagoya
愛知県名古屋市中区錦2-7-11 伝馬町ビル
Supported by
IASPIS
ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistik Berlin
Kultivera Tranås
西日本工業大学デザイン学部
Gallery Soap
Art Institute Kitakyushu
Online Ads
Ciaoチャオ
01:12（迷惑メール）
Cercasi Badante
訪問介護ヘルパー募集！
01:13（求人広告、イタリア）
Colf fissa!
住み込み家政婦募集！
01:44（求人広告、イタリア）
Plastikkirurgi i Thailand!
整形手術はぜひタイランドで！
00:32（オンライン広告、スウェーデン）
Bli vår nya stjärnsäljare!
販売員募集！
01:44（求人広告、スウェーデン）
THE FOREIGN DOMESTIC WORKERS
SHALL NOT GET MARRIED IN SINGAPORE
外国人家政婦はシンガポールで結婚してはいけません
03:42（求人広告、シンガポール）
Life wouldn't be the same without safe sea
安全な海なしに私たちの生活はありえません
03:12（シンガポール海軍、地下鉄ポスター）
駅前のマックにいます
I'm in MacD at the station
00:38（迷惑メール）
経理募集！サンパウロ工場
Wanted. Accountant for our factory in Sao Paolo Brazil
01:45（求人広告）
Video ( text animation ) + exterior sound installation
古郷卓司 Takuji Kogo
in collaboration with Federico Baronello, Mike Bode, Charles Lim
I이 땅은 나의 것 / この土地は私のもの
This land is mine
Installation with multiplied 3-D maps of Dokdo/Takeshima, (island contested between Japan and South Korea) on ceramic dishes on plastic garden furniture.古郷卓司 + 宮川敬一
Takuji Kogo + Keiichi Miyagawa
U.S. MILITARY BASE IN OKINAWA!
WE SELL! WE BUY!
沖縄軍用地! 売ります! 買います!
“4:13” 2003 沖縄での軍用地売買は､通常の不動産取引と全く異なり､所有権の売買価格は年間賃貸料との比率で査定される。購入の目的のほとんどは､その土地から得られる賃貸料にあるため土地の条件や広さは考慮されず、その価格は米軍から返還される可能性が不確実な場所であればあるほど､高額査定されている。1972年沖縄返還後、日本政府は沖縄の米軍基地の土地使用に対して地主との新しい借地契約を作成、政府は地主から土地を借り上げ､米軍に貸与している。日本政府はその借地賃貸料を毎年､着実に値上げ、沖縄の「軍用地」は､安定した有利な投資対象となっている。
Transactions of military land in Okinawa are completely different from regular transactions of real estate. The market price deals only with the ratio of the land's annual rent without concerning the conditions of the land or its extent, because the purpose of the buyers is only income from the rent. And the ratio remains higher where there is uncertainty of the land ever being returned by US forces. About 10% of the main island of the Okinawa islands has been covered by U.S military bases since 1972 when the United States returning Okinawa to Japan retained conditional rights to all U.S. military installations. The Japanese government rents the property from the landowners lending it to the U.S. forces. Owning Okinawa "military ground" remains a highly lucrative investment guaranteed by the Japanese government.
古郷卓司 Takuji Kogo
HOMES FOR AMERICA, SIGONELLA
ホームズ・フォー・アメリカ、シゴネッラvideo “08 : 29” + print 2015~2016
シチリア、シゴネッラ米空軍基地の住宅内部の様子を紹介する米軍家族による投稿動画、同地の２つの基地住宅ミネオ、マリナイ・ハウジングを敷地外からオンライン・マップで探索した映像を編集したもの。ミネオ・ハウジングは米軍との2011年契約終了後、シチリア沿岸やランペドゥーサ島に押し寄せる中東やアフリカ諸国からの難民収容施設( C.A.R.A. di Mineo )に転用されている。
シゴネッラ米空軍基地広報官から、ミネオに収容された難民たちの暴動を伝えた情報とそれに対する米軍のオンライン・コミュニティーのコメントを表示している。
The video consists of online video clips of the interior of the Sigonella U.S military base housing, Sicily uploaded by a U.S military family together with outside views of two identical base housing estates called Marina and Mineo at Sigonella using online map service. The U.S base canceled the lease contract for the Mineo housing in 2011 and since then the apartments have been transformed into a refugee detention center ( C.A.R.A. di Mineo ) used mainly for Middle Eastern and African refugees, many of which have arrive via the coast of Sicily or Lampedusa island.
A printed web page with a warning message about a riot by refugees at Mineo housing written by a PR officer for the Sigonella U.S base community including their comments.
古郷卓司（フェデリコ・バロネッロとのコラボレーションより）
Takuji Kogo ( from a collaborative project with Federico Baronello)
ROBOT
I'm A Sassy Li'l Cookie生意気リトルクッキー
02:13 2015
Lost&Found
探し物
04:36 2016
Make Your Parents Happy!
キミも両親を幸せにしよう！
04:16 2016
Karma
カルマ
04:57 2016
Takuji Kogo + John Miller
保見 / HOMI
“00 : 01” 20162009年、愛知県下最大のブラジル人コミュニティー豊田市保見団地に続く道路に掲げられたエミレーツ航空の広告。関空発ドバイ経由サンパウロ便とその連絡便 として運行されている名古屋駅から関空までの無料シャトルバスの情報がポルトガル語のみで記載されている。
A brand new billboard by the Emirates airline company on the road leading up to the Homi Public Housing Estate known as housing the largest Brazilian community in Toyota city, Aichi prefecture in 2009. The billboard announces a free bus connection from Nagoya for the flight from Osaka to Sao Paulo via Dubai. The advert is only written in Portuguese.
マイク・ボード+ 古郷卓司
Mike Bode +Takuji Kogo
NON_SITES / Hello
どこでもないどこにでもあるどこか / ハロー “02 : 16” 2009NON_SITES
" 44:36" 2007^2016NON_SITES / Penny Arcade
どこでもないどこにでもあるどこか / ペニーアーケイド
NON_SITES / Breakfast Time
どこでもないどこにでもあるどこか / 朝食の時間
NON_SITES / Jasper Jones at a Fast Food Restaurant
どこでもないどこにでもあるどこか / ファストフード店のジャスパージョーンズ
NON_SITES / Man Slumbering at a Casino
どこでもないどこにでもあるどこか / カジノで居眠りする男
NON_SITES / 1:19 p.m. Family at the Mall
どこでもないどこにでもあるどこか / 午後１時19分、ショッピングモールの家族
NON_SITES / Puppy
どこでもないどこにでもあるどこか / 子犬
NON_SITES / Balloons
どこでもないどこにでもあるどこか / バルーン
NON_SITES / 4:50 p.m. Man Smoking, Woman in a Red Coat, Man Eating Ice Cream
どこでもないどこにでもあるどこか / 午後4時50分、たばこを吸う男、赤いコートの女、アイスクリームを食べる男
NON_SITES / Man Reading a Newspaper on the Subway
どこでもないどこにでもあるどこか / 地下鉄で新聞を読む男
NON_SITES / Superman at a Public Housing Estate
どこでもないどこにでもあるどこか / 公共住宅のスーパーマン
NON_SITES / Puma, Champion, Yankees
どこでもないどこにでもあるどこか / プーマ、チャンピオン、ヤンキース
NON_SITES / Street Vendor With a Red T-Shirt
どこでもないどこにでもあるどこか / 赤いシャツの露天商
NON_SITES / Girls Chatting at the Laundry
どこでもないどこにでもあるどこか / ランドリーでお喋りする娘たち
NON_SITES / Chinese Food Court and Slumbering Worker
どこでもないどこにでもあるどこか / チャイニーズ・フードコートと眠る労働者
NON_SITES / Pigeons #6
どこでもないどこにでもあるどこか / ハトの群れ #6
NON_SITES / Pigeons #7 Shopping District Screen Display
どこでもないどこにでもあるどこか / ハトの群れ #7 ショッピングセンターのスクリーン
NON_SITES / Pigeons #9 Window Display at Night
どこでもないどこにでもあるどこか / ハトの群れ #9 夜のショーウィンドウ
KIMI KIM JALAN JALAN
キミ キム ジャラン ジャラン古郷卓司+ ヨンへ・チャン・ヘヴィー・インダストリーズ
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES + TAKUJI KOGO
“28 : 18” 2015
KIMI KIM JALAN JALAN EPISODE 2
キミ キム ジャラン ジャラン エピソード 2 "05 : 51" 2016AMERICAN SITCOM
My addiction to porn ポルノ中毒 “12 : 34” 2014
Joining the Airforce 空軍への入隊 “21 : 23” 2014
Divorce 離婚 “11 : 58” 2014
Mike Bode +Takuji Kogo
Exhibitions
Aichi Triennial 2016
Kalmar konstmuseum
2015
ICA Miami 2015
Pitzer Art Galleries Claremont, CA 2014
OPEN TO ALL AGES & ETHNICITIES
Takuji Kogo / John Miller The Neuer Berliner Kunstverein 9. June – 31. July 2015KITAKYUSHU BIENNIAL THE FIFTH
SAT 6th JUNE 2015. 19:00Kitakyushu Biennial in Berlin
ZK/U Berlin Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik
6/22 - 7/31 2015
A * Candy Factory Project Plastic Chairs
Jönköpings läns museum Room 203 Sweden
9/12 - 10/10 2015
Gallery Soap 北九州 Kitakyushu Japan
10/10 - 12/6 2015
The Private Museum Singapore
KIMI KIM JALAN JALAN
TAKUJI KOGO
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
THE 3rd Kitakyushu Biennial in SINGAPORE
KYIV Biennale 2015
STATEMENTS (JAPANESE/UKRAINIAN)
0029 : TO MY GOOD AND LOYAL SUBJECTS 0063 : AFTER RECENT SURGERY ON MY SCALP
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES + TAKUJI KOGO
2015 UKRAINIAN TRANSLATION by LESYA PROKOPENKO
"Mistakes Were Made" organized by JOHN MILLER
Kalmar konstmuseum presents
A *Candy Factory Project
BOOGIE WOOGIE WONDERLAND
Takuji Kogo with Mike Bode and John Miller
Online AdsText animation at the staircase synched with the exterior sound installation
Non_sites
ROBOT
AMERICAN.SITCOM
17/10 - 29/11 2015
A *Candy Factory Project
American Sitcom
Takuji Kogo + Mike Bode
Pitzer Galleries California USA 2014
Non_sites / Online Ads
Mother/Land / Kurumaya Museum of Art Tochigi Japan 2014The Waiting Game ROBOT
Walk-ins Welcome Gallery Marlborough Broome Street NY 2014
ART IN POP
Centre National d'Art Contemporain Le Magasin Grenoble France 2014KITAKYUSHU BIENNIAL 2013
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information
Screening : Berlin Germany 8/9 Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik
Busan Korea 9/7 - 14
Totatoga Archive Center
北九州 Kitakyushu Japan Part I 9/28 - 10/31
Gallery Soap
Screening : 東京 Tokyo Japan 10/5
山谷労働者福祉会館 Sanya Worker's Welfare Hall
SIngapore10/22 - 12/8
The Private Museum
北九州 Kitakyushu Japan Part II 11/2 - 12/7
Gallery Soap
Federico Baronello
Mike Bode
Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries
John Miller
Martine Neddam
Keiichi Miyagawa 宮川敬一
Charles Lim Yi Yong
Sean Snyder
Takuji Kogo 古郷卓司
*Candy Factory Projects
Catalogue PDF 77.2 MB
i (information) / Kitakyushu Biennial 2013
artist book / designed by Takuji Kogo
Published by A.I.K
自粛中継 / Self-Censored Live Broadcast
1988年9月、昭和天皇の吐血報道から翌年1月崩御までの4ヶ月間、日本国内の各TV局は徐々にCM、バラエティー番組等を自粛、深夜放送は病状の推移を皇居正門前二重橋の中継映像とともに放映した。この映像は当時の放送を模して制作されている。At the end of 1988, after receiving the news of the Emperor Showa Hirohito's collapse in September until his death in January 1989, the Japanese network TV refrained from showing some advertisements and entertainment programs. During those four months the bridge in front of the main gate of the Emperors Palace in Tokyo was continuously broadcast at night together with announcements of the Emperors medical condition. The work mimics the same view from the live broadcast with " Day for night" the post production technique also known as " American night "
Takuji Kogo + Keiichi Miyagawa
House Tour On-base housing Kadena AB Okinawa
Kadena Air Base (嘉手納飛行場) is a United States Air Force base in the towns of Kadena and Chatan and the city of Okinawa, Japan. Kadena Air Base is home to the USAF's 18th Wing, the 353d Special Operations Group, reconnaissance units, 1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery, and a variety of associated units. Over 20,000 American service members, family members, and Japanese employees live or work aboard Kadena Air Base. It is the largest and most active US Air Force base in the Far East.ASMR MY DMZ DUB / YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES + TAKUJI KOGO 2013
Little About Me / ROBOT ( Takuji Kogo + John Miller ) New Museum NY 2013
*Candy Factory Projects in Rome
Auditorium Arte , 11-29 luglio 2012, Auditorium Parco della Musica RomeCandy Factory Projects è una piattaforma giapponese, internazionale e nomade, diretta da Takuji Kogo, che realizza progetti collaborativi di arte multimediale nella forma di lavori artistici, operazioni di curatela, prodotti editoriali cartacei ed elettronici. Candy Factory Projects indaga i processi di stagnazione dell’economia globale guardando ad aspetti diversi quali: il processo di trasformazione e abbandono dell’architettura post-moderna a Tokyo; l’industria turistica sul confine delle due Coree; un luogo di villeggiatura alla periferia estrema dell’Europa mediterranea meta privilegiata dei “richiedenti asilo” africani; la produzione su grande scala di pomodorini sostenuta da immigrati rumeni e tunisini in Sicilia. Candy Factory Projects in Rome presenta due installazioni in AuditoriumArte. Online Ads è un video musicale concepito come una collezione di frammenti di informazioni mediatiche trasformati in brani musicali originali. Nella sala interna invece sarà proiettata una collezione dei NON_SITES, ricerca personale di Takuji Kogo: una serie di foto-sculture, sorta di caleidoscopi digitali realizzati con loop e scatti in sequenza e specchiati, tratti da momenti di vita quotidiana in ambienti standardizzati, come le “vedute” d’interni in ristoranti fast-food o nei centri commerciali, o d’esterni con persone ritratte nello spazio pubblico. (www.artonline.jp) A cura di Federico Baronello e Takuji Kogo.
Dal 10 al 29 luglio presso AuditoriumArte. Ingresso libero. Orario: martedì 10 luglio dalle ore 18.30; lun/ven h. 17/21; sab/dom e festivi h.11/ 21.
*Candy Factory Projects
新しい現代美術史
A new history of contemporary art
Chapter 1: 美術作品としての国家 The nation state as a work of art
Kitakyushu Biennial in Berlin
北九州国際ビエンナーレ in 伯林
at ZK/U Berlin Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik 2012 The Kitakyushu Biennial for the grand opening exhibition at the newly established art space ZK/U Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik in Berlin, the former Railway Depot Moabit. The exhibition presents the landscapes of a fabricated idea of the nation state where cultural identities have become defunct or conflictual, landscapes located on the back waters of the global economy covering such subjects as tourism on the Korean North-South divide, large scale Sicilian cherry tomato production maintained by Romanian and Tunisian migrant workers, a shopping mall in Singapore filled with foreign maids agencies or the public housing estates built around Toyota city which are today the home of many Japanese descendants from south America. *Candy Factory Projects also transforms fragments of information and media into original musical projects, text messages sung by synthetic voices taken from scam messages and junk mails or personal ads from online dating sites, propaganda posters, or the transactions for land purchase for the American military bases on Okinawa and re-advertising them as promotional video clips at the site.
Federico Baronello
Mike Bode
Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries
Charles Lim Yi Yong
John Miller
Keiichi Miyagawa + Hisao Sotoda / Second Planet
Takuji Kogo
Curated by
Takuji Kogo + Keiichi Miyagwa ( AIK )
Philip Horst ( ZK/U Director )
coordinator Marina Solbello
supported by
Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation
Fukutake Foundation for the Promotion of Regional Culture
ASAHI Beer Arts Foundation
ART NETWORK ASIA
presented by
Art Institute Kitakyushu
ZK/U Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik
Life Wouldn't Be The Same Without Safe Seas
A *CANDY FACTORY PROJECT in FRANKFURT
Frankfurter KunstvereinDeutsche Börse Residency Program 2012
Kitakyushu Biennial World Tour 1
KITAKYUSHU BIENNIAL in SINGAPORE 2012
@ The Private Museum Singapore 2012移民/IMIN
Migrants, Immigrants, Emigrants,
Refugees, Exiles, Expatriates
and Others.
KITAKYUSHU BIENNIAL 2011
John Miller ジョン・ミラーYoung-hae Chang Heavy Industries
ヨンへ・チャン重工業
Sean Snyder ショーン・スナイダー
Federico Baronello フェデリコ・バロネッロ
Mike Bode マイク・ボード
KUNSTrePUBLIK クンスト・リパブリック
Ola Pehrson オラ・ピアソン
Keiichi Miyagawa 宮川敬一
Hisao Sotoda 外田久雄
Gen Sasaki 佐々木玄
Shinsuke Ogawa 小川紳介
Takuji Kogo 古郷卓司
Kitakyuushu Yahata
八万湯、さわらびガーデンモール、八幡市民会館、
Gallery Soap
Singapore Private Museum
Catalogue PDF 3.8MB
Published by A.I.K
Blueberryland
Mike Bode + Takuji KogoKitakyushu Biennial 2011
wip:konsthall Stockholm, Sweden 2011
移民/IMIN
Migrants, Immigrants, Emigrants,
Refugees, Exiles, Expatriates
and Others.
KITAKYUSHU
BIENNIAL 2009
CHARLES LIM YI YONG / チャールズ・リムFEDERICO BARONELLO / フェデリコ・バロネッロ
MIKE BODE / マイク・ボード
SECOND PLANET / 宮川敬一＋外田久雄
TAKUJI KOGO / 古郷卓司
旧JR九州本社ビル 門司港
The original: JR OFFICE BLDG. MOJI KO
GALLERY SOAP KITAKYUSHU
VITTORIA
Federico Baronello + Takuji Kogo 2009三里塚 SANRIZUKA
A *CANDY FACTORY PROJECT 2011
Farms and villages around Sanrizuka in Narita city were demolished by the Japanese government in order to build New Tokyo International Airport. There were long-standing protests by local farmers and student radicals during the1960s and 70s and is still under dispute today. Some of the activists acquired and shared a small plot of land (One -tsubo / about 3.3m² ) in protest of the eviction. Some established themselves as farmers, living inside of the airport compound. The Airport was finally opened in 1978. The local community was destroyed after a long struggle and many of villagers left. There were internal disputes between opposition groups of radicals and villagers during 1980's. Today there are still some pending court cases on land right issues left to be resolved. Three of the farms were kept running inside of the Airport stopping the expansion plan. Since its opening, the use of the airport has been restricted to daytime traffic only due to noise-pollution effecting the surrounding residential area. Narita airport can be seen as an example of a badly implemented national development strategy, and deemed a failure. Its original function as an international airport for Tokyo has been partially re-taken by Tokyo Haneda airport.成田市三里塚周辺のいくつかの農村は新東京国際空港建設時、日本政府によって消滅させられた。
60-70年代を通じ長期に亘って地元農民と過激派学生等による反対運動が繰り広げられ、現在も紛争 は続く。活動家の一部は一坪の土地を所有して立ち退きに反対、一部は自身が農民となって空港用地 内にとどまることを選んだ。1978年に遂に開港。村は長い闘争の末に分裂、多くの村民が離れて行 った。また80年代を通じて村民、過激派の反対運動内部での抗争も起こっている。現在も一部、空港用地の権利をめぐる裁判が係争中、空港内では今も３軒の農家が経営され滑走路の拡張を止めている。また住宅地に囲まれ開港時からの騒音問題によって空港の運航は日中に限定されている。成田空港建設は国の開発計画としては失策と見られており、首都・東京のための国際空港という当初の役割も羽田の国際便就航化とともにその一部を移行されつつある。
Takuji Kogo + Keiichi Miyagawa
FILM SCREENING
三里塚・辺田部落
Narita: Heta Village
1973 (146 min)
Directed by Shinsuke Ogawa
Between 1967 to 1974 the documentary filmmaker Shinsuke Ogawa and his crew lived with the farmers of Sanrizuka and produced a series of seven films documenting the struggle and the everyday life of the village. In 1971 three policeman were killed during a demonstration about the enforced acquisition of the land for the airport construction. "Narita: Heta Village" documents the village after the incident. The Director states at the beginning of the film that many police entered the village upsetting and agitated the villagers in order to break-up the opposition factions which consisted of both protesters and members of the local community. The film focuses on the villagers themselves, their personal history and their thoughts on the struggle.1967年から74年にかけて小川紳介とそのクルーも三里塚で農民と生活をともにしながら７本に及ぶシリーズ作品を制作。1971年空港用地立ち退きの強制執行に際した暴動で三人の警官が死亡、『三里塚・辺田部落』は事件後、多くの警官が訪れては村民たちを不安に陥れ、意見や立場の異なるグループに分裂させていく様を記録、また村民それぞれの過去や闘争への思いに焦点をあてて撮影されている。
DEMILITARIZED ZONE BUS TOUR WITH BULGOGI LUNCH
IF I WERE YOU I'LL GO TO THE PALACE
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES + TAKUJI KOGOKitakyushu Biennial in Berlin
北九州国際ビエンナーレ in 伯林 at ZK/U Berlin Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik 2012
北九州国際ビエンナーレ Kitakyushu Biennial 2011
Nam June Paik Art Center 2009
PUBLIC HOUSING SINGAPORE
An interview with Liu Thai-Ker( A City Planner, former C.E.O. of The Housing and Development Board, Singapore1970-80s)
インタヴュー／リュー・タイカー 都市プランナー、元シンガポール都市計画局C.E.O
More than 85% of the population of Singapore live in Public housing organized by the government.
The ownership of the flat is limited to 100 years and is referred to as the land title system.
MUSIC FROM *CANDY FACTORY
FACEHUG 2010
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart GermanySandy Brown Berlin Germany
Non_sites
The Ebisu International Festival Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (2009)
DEMILITARIZED ZONE BUS TOUR
WITH BULGOGI LUNCH
IF I WERE YOU I'LL GO TO THE PALACE
Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries + Takuji KogoThe First Stop on the Super Highway The Nam June Paik Art Center Korea (2009)
*Candy Factory Projects 2007/2008
北九州 KITAKYUSHU
古郷卓司 + 宮川敬一 TAKUJI KOGO + KEIICHI MIYAGAWAGallery Soap Kokura Japan 2008
How to reach Lampedusa
Takuji Kogo + Federico Baronello
No Place – Like Home: Perspectives on Migration in Europe
ARGOS Centre for Art & Media Brussels BelgiumKITAKYUSHU BIENNIAL 2007
CUTE or CREEPY?
旧JR九州本社ビルMoji-ko Kitakyushu Japan
*Candy Factory Projects have opened abandoned former JP office building in public at the Moji port through the first Kitakyushu Biennial 2007 and the second in 2009. It built in 1937 as for the Moji Branch for Mitsui & Co., Ltd., one of the largest general trading companies in Japan since the Edo period and dissolved by the order of GHQ after the end of World War 2. In the beginning the building was the tallest building and became a landmark of Moji Port, located in the northern part of Kyushu, one of the main trade port in Japan close to Asian countries and a naval port since the Sino-Japanese War to World War 2. The Building became the main office for Japanese National Railways Kyushu after the World War 2. However, the company moved the office into Fukuoka city in 2001 and it had been abandoned since then in the middle of tourist spot surrounded by other old western style buildings.
Artists
Federico Baronello
Thomas Bayrle
Mike Bode & Staffan Schmidt
Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries
John Miller
Sean Snyder
Keiichi Miyagawa
Takuji Kogo
Curated by
Takuji Kogo + Keiichi Miyagawa,
Yoshitaka Mouri / director of the film screening + symposium
Otomo Yoshihide : director of the music event)
Sponsored by
The Asahi Shimbun Foundation
Asahi Beer Arts Foundation
Japan Arts Council
The Japan Foundation
The Nomura Cultural Foundation
Approved by KMK: Kigyo Mecenat Kyogikai
Association for Corporate Support of the Arts, Japan
Presented by
Art Institute Kitakyushu
Artist book / designed by Takuji Kogo
Published by A.I.K
STATEMENTS
(JAPANESE/ENGLISH)0029 : TO MY GOOD AND LOYAL SUBJECTS
0063 : AFTER RECENT SURGERY ON MY SCALP
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES + TAKUJI KOGO 2007
TAKUJI KOGO @ The MOMA
Mediascope / Screening : 26th Feb. 2007The Museum of Modern Art New York
*Candy Factory Projects 2006
MAAP BRISBANE AustraliaDonde y Durante La Noche en Blanco Madrid Spain
Time Shares Rhizome the New Museum of Contemporary Art NY U.S.A
Zero One San Jose San Jose Museum for Art U.S.A
Media Madrid Spain
CUTE or CREEPY?
A Song for the Silicon ValleySan Jose Museum of Art 2006
北朝鮮TV映画シリーズ・名もなき英雄たち
SEAN SNYDER + TAKUJI KOGO
ショーン・スナイダー＋古郷卓司
at 6TH GWANGJU BIENNALE 2006
Tokyo Rose Advertising.
Printed Matter, Inc. NY 2006. Screening event + Web project.Coordinated By A.A Bronson
Time Share
Rhizome.org / New museum of Contemporary Art 2006A *CANDY FACTORY PROJECT / Hyper-links for dead links
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art 2006Swedish Gentleman
2006Robot (Takuji Kogo + John Miller)
New Museum NY / First Look 2013
Kitakyushu Biennial in Berlin 2012
Metro Pictures /John Miller : Suburban Past Time 2012
Kitakyushu Biennial 2011
Donde y Durante La Noche en Blanco Madrid Spain (2006)
Takuji Kogo / Japan @ Rooseum Mueum SWEDEN 2005
ROUTE 189
also known as American Street. It's only about 400 meters long situated in front of the U.S Marine Corps Iwakuni Air Station at Iwakuni city Yamaguchi prefecture. U.S Marine Corps Iwakuni Air Station will soon be a largest U.S military base in the mainland in Japan. The current acreage is 575 ha. The area is expected to expand to 790 ha in the next few years. The Japanese government has been conducting a 160 billion yen land reclamation project for 215 ha since 1997. The local government has also subsidized many of the City's facilities such as roads and the new city hall. The economy in the city is largely sustained by these constructions. Each house near the base has been provided with soundproofing and air-conditioning for the noise pollution from military training. The base expanded through the Korean War to the Vietnam War and the red light district has been developing around the road ever since. In 1955, 2500 prostitutes for American soldiers called "Only" were working there. Many of the sex crimes by US marines have been taking place around this street. 11 murder cases by U.S soldiers since 1955 which include vicious crimes such as : a woman who was raped and murdered using a screwdriver and a hammer in her abdomen. Another abandoned dead body was found with breasts and genital organs cut. However compared to similar murder cases by U.S soldiers in Okinawa or South Korea, these particular crimes were never reported by the main media in Japan.A *CANDY FACTORY PROJECT / SONGS II
Akiyoshidai International Art Village Yamaguchi Japan 2006LIBRINO
リブリーノ SINCE 1970 : KENZO TANGE ASSOCIATES CATANIA CITY ITALY
Interview with habitants at Librino from the TV program "Il Dito" Librino e il problema casa 14 Jan. 2005 dubbed in Japanese. Librino New Town Project is a city plan which was never fully completed. Situated in the second largest city in Sicily Catania. Designed by the Japanese Architect Kenzo Tange from 1970 to 1972
Federico Baronello + Takuji Kogo
Kitakyushu Biennial 2007 Cute or Creepy
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art 2006
Akiyoshidai International Art Village Yamaguchi Japan 2006
A *CANDY FACTORY PROJECT / SONGS
Akiyoshidai International Art Village Yamaguchi Japan 2005The sound installation outside of the huge institutional space situated in the forest of Akiyoshidai. It re-advertises personal ads, junk e-mails, propaganda, and national anthems.
SCREAM
FÄRGFABRIKEN Centre for Contemporary Art and Architecture
Stockholm Sweden
2004
curated by OLA PEHRSON + TAKUJI KOGOARTISTS
TAKUJI KOGO / JOHN MILLER / YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES /
DANIEL WESTRUND/ MIJA RENSTROM /LENA GUSTAVSSON / OLA PEHRSON
Johnny & D / Ola Pehrson
Collaborations with Ola Pehrson / Takuji Kogo*Candy Factory Projects at ART METROPOLE TORONT 2004
coordinated by Chrysanne Stathacos and A.A BronsonPublication : audio album
ART METROPOLE PRESENTS
*Candy Factory Projects
PUBLISHED BY ART-METROPOLE TORONTO CANADA 2004
Published by ART METROPOLE
Media City Seoul Seoul City Museum of Art Korea (2004)
CAMPAIGN & PRODUCTS
KITAKYUSHU MUNICIPAL MUSEUM OF ARTS JAPAN 2004*Candy Factory Projects
In collaboration with
ASAHI BREWERIES, LTD.
TOTO, LTD.
RITZWELL
TAKAGI CO., LTD.
FUJITSU, LTD.
SHABONDAMA SOAP CORPORATION
MOS FOOD SERVICES, INC.
CAMPAIGN & PRODUCTS is a collaborative art project with several corporations in Japan,
All images are from product advertisements presented in the museum space.
WEB PROJECT in collaboration with YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
curated by TAKUJI KOGO + KEIICHI MIYAGAWA
CAMPAIGN & PRODUCTS Soundtrack
AUDIENCES / SNOW WHITE
Media City Seoul / Seoul City Museum of Art Korea 2004BOOGIE WOOGIE WONDERLAND
MIKE BODE & STAFFAN SCHMIDTJOHN MILLER
AKIRA MORI
OLA PEHRSON
SEAN SNYDER
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
*CANDY FACTORY
SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE for the artist book
THOMAS BAYRLE
Guest Curator:
TAKUJI KOGO, *CANDY FACTORY
ORGANIZED AND PRODUCED BY THE AKIYOSHIDAI INTERNATIONAL ART VILLAGE
SPONSORED BY THE JAPAN FOUNDATION FOR REGIONAL ACTIVITIES
*Candy Factory Projects / BOOGIE WOOGIE WONDERLAND
artist book / designed by Takuji Kogo
Published by AIAV
Holiday by *Candy Factory
Soap land Records Japan (2003)
*Candy Factory Projects @ AIAV 2002
Architectural InterventionLost in space
KANEBO HOFU FACTORY 鐘紡防府工場
TAKUJI KOGO + MIKE BODECombination of two (1954) Takeo Yamaguchi
双つの組み合わせ (1954) 山口長男
The painting by the Japanese artist Takeo Yamaguchi (1902-1983) was made in 1954. It shows the abstracted Japanese word for " Work". It was presented as an example of modernist Japanese painting in the late 50's at the Venice Biennial and the Sao Paolo Biennial. However since the 1960's the painting was forgotten and turned up hanging in a staircase in the old office building of the Kanebo Hofu Factory (one of the largest and oldest chemical fiber mill plants in Japan, founded in 1935 at Hofu, Yamaguchi.) This painting was uncovered with this project and was displayed once more at the Yamaguchi prefecture museum in 2003 together with a digital projection of the defunct factory housing and the transcription of a song made for the factory celebrations by the workers. The factory was shut down in 2004 due to the owner company's bankruptcy.
NON_ BROADCASTING TIME
2000~ 2003 A series of empty TV studio sets views broadcast at the exhibition space, online and cable Television networks.| FOX NEWS / Walker Art Center Minneapolis 2003 |
| 中学生日記 Middle School Diaries / Aichi Arts Center 2003 |
| WHY EBS South Korea / Korean Web Art Festival 2001 |
| Traveling Around China China Central Television Beijing / MAAP Beijing China Millennium Monument Beijing (2002) |
| NEIGHBOURS / Gloss Centre for Contemporary Photography Melbourne Australia (2002) |
| TYS Yamaguchi Japan / Art In The Home Yamaguchi Japan 2001 |
| TNC Fukuoka Japan / Re:map @ Laforet Museum Kokura Japan 2001 |
| Golden time / Screening: Postmasters gallery NY 2001 |
Yokohama Triennial 2001 |
| Pavilion sculpture : Gallows Fluorescent paint on Steel frame, Tatami floor, rope Installation view at Yokohama Triennial 2001 In collaboration with Tetsu Takagi, Kazunari Horiguchi |
Pavilion sculpture : Tea houseFluorescent paint on Steel frame , Tatami floor,Printed images on Fusuma / Papered Sliding doors from the publication WAKE UP TIME Takuji Kogo + John Miller Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen 2000 Installation view at Gallery Haco Japan 2000 In collaboration with Tetsu Takagi, Kazunari Horiguchi |
NUNOTANI BLDG.
布谷ビル 2001~ 2004NUNOTANI BLDG. built in 1991 at EDOGAWA TOKYO, Architect: Peter Eisenman and Zenidaka corporation. Built as the main office building of the design company NUNOTANI corporation's Tokyo branch. However the building's function soon turned into a warehouse. The NUNOTANI corporation went bankrupt in 2000. The administration of property Osaka district court has had the building and the site up for sale since 2000. A company " Life support" finally bought the dilapidated building at an auction in 2003 converted the building into the old-age peoples home.
Exhibition : Yokohama Triennial 2001 Korean web art festival Seoul 2001 Publication : Lost In Space / AIAV 2002
Mike Bode + Takuji Kogo
*Candy Factory Projects 2000 |
What an interesting finger, let me suck it.Unused industrial park land (abandoned coal mine site )in Tagwa city Japan Gallery Soap 2000 *Candy Factory Yokohama 2000 |
SIT.COM 1998-9 Online Project |
| Exhibitions Yokohama Triennial 2001 The Center for contemporary art Catania Italy 2001 EXPO 3000 Berlin 2001 Lydmar Hotel Sweden 2000 Dream on / Laforet Museum Kokura 2000 Screening event : Postmasters Gallery NY 2001 Art Frankfurt Germany 2001 Les rencontres internationales de la photographie d'Arles, Antic theatre, Arles, France 2000 |
*CANDY FACTORY
1998 ~ 2001 Gallery space Yokohama Japan directed by Takuji Kogo*Candy Factory ProjectsDirected by Takuji Kogo. Established in 1998 out of a former candy factory in Yokohama, Japan, *Candy Factory Projects is an international platform for collaborative art projects. Since 2001, the project has been nestling its activities in different institutions around the world conducting site-specific researches, producing exhibitions and publications.*Candy Factory Projects are archived at: https://artonline.jp/ |
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Projects in progress |
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Online Ads(ongoing since 2007)A series of multi linguistic text animations. The found text materials sung by vocal synthesizer are transformed into original music videos.The project had been shown at various Candy Factory Projects included large scale exterior sound installation, for example at the Aichi Triennial (2016) displaying text animation through an abandoned convenience store's window to turn the building into a singing architecture with fragments of specific information. |
Robot(since 2004)A virtual band project in collaboration with John Miller. "ROBOT" produces songs whose lyrics derive from personal ads found online and original promotional video clips, more recently, from various other sources. "PERFORMER, AUDIENCE, MIRROR: THE MUSICAL" made from a transcript of a historical Dan Graham performance from the 1970’s, "GRACEFUL, MYTHOLOGICAL, LIFE-SIZE" is also from the transcript of "Museum Highlights " by Andrea Fraser at Philadelphia Museum of Art 1991, re-enacted as a musical stand-up comedy cartoon. |
Comics(ongoing since 2017)A series of animated panoramic street views and architectural environments from specific sites and multi linguistic street signs or propaganda, introducing street views transformed into contemporary art exhibitions. For example "There is no ghost after the revolution" 2018 is a multi projection piece made with the animated street views of Xiobei Guangzhou China aka Chocolate City. It portrays Africans in the Chinese traders market together with propaganda posters from Chinese government announcing the new era of Xi Jinping. "THE FOREIGN DOMESTIC WORKER SHALL NOT GET MARRIED IN SINGAPORE" is an animated view of Bukiti Timah Shopping Center in Singapore which is filled with the foreign maids agencies. It animates their sales slogans for the various religions or nationalities for contracting maids. Also an original music score made for the regulation of foreign maids by the Singapore government explaining that the foreign maids are not permitted to get a boyfriend in Singapore. |
Homes for America(since 2003)This long running project focuses on the ideological state apparatus of U.S Military bases and its cultural or economical impact on the local hosting society and seen an abstracted "American city” and community. The project gathers fragments from some of the bases found in locations all over the world. "U.S military base in Okinawa, We Sell, We buy“ is a promotional music video based on a real estate advert for military land where land became a lucrative investment due to rent price guarantees by the Japanese government. "American Sitcom / Joining the Air Force” A part of a trilogy of quasi anthropological research on American online culture in collaboration with Swedish Artist Mike Bode. The text animation made out of transcriptions from V-loggers monologues sharing experiences about joining the US Air force. |
Non_sites(since 2003)A series of photo-sculptures, digital kaleidoscopes made of looped and mirrored sequence shots taken from moments of standardized every day life environments, such as views of fast food restaurants or street views with people of various races, public spaces or shopping malls. |
Contact : candyfactory(at)icloud.com |
| 1998 | *Candy factory Yokohama Terminal Care/*Candy Factory Alive with pleasure/John Miller Flesh and Blood/Mouchette Entangled Simile/Takuji Kogo |
1999 | Project? Think The Same/Project 8 Total Museum Seoul Amor & Conscience Atlier Sevigne Paris France Voices/Nagoya Port N mark Gallery Soap /Hotel Chigusa Dot.jp The Museum of Modern Art NY |
2000 | Sit.com Les rencontres internationales de la photographie d'Arles France J-way Lydmar Hotel Sweden Expo 3000 Berlin |
2001 | Yokohama Triennial Nunotani Bldg. Korean web art festival Seoul The Center for contemporary art Catania Art Frankfurt Germany |
2002 | AIAV 秋吉台国際芸術村 Non_broadcasting Time MAAP Beijing CCP Melbourne Art In the home New Media Scotland Edinburgh 愛知芸文センター The centre for arts and culture Aichi |
| 2003 | Boogie Woogie Wonderland TRANSLOCATIONS Walker Art Centre Minneapolis U.S.A Net Noise C-theory multimedia MIT Online project Sit.com Holiday Music from *Candy Factory |
2004 | Scream Stockholm ＊CFP ART METROPOLE TORONT Media City Seoul MAAP Singapore Art Museum CAMPAIGN & PRODUCTS 北九州市立美術館 Do a book / Plum Blossom Gallery NY Global Consulting NY |
2005 | Takuji Kogo at Rooseum Sweden Songs 秋吉台国際芸術村 Pace Digital Gallery New York TRANSFORMER / Akiyoshidai International Art Village Japan |
2006 | *CFP Hiroshima 広島市現代美術館 Tokyo Rose Printed Matter NY Gwangju Biennial MAAP BRISBANE Australia Donde y Durante La Noche en Blanco Madrid Spain Time Shares Rhizome the New Museum of Contemporary Art NY Zero One San Jose San Jose Museum for Art Media Madrid Spain |
2007 | The 1st Kitakyushu Biennial / Cute or Creepy? Takuji Kogo at the MoMa Visual 07 SPAIN Break 2.4 Festival Ljubljana Slovenia Regroup show / Miguel Abreu Gallery NY Radio Danièle Italy |
| 2008 | 北九州 KITAKYUSHU How to reach Lampedusa No Place – Like Home/ ARGOS Centre for Art & Media Brussels |
2009 | Kitakyushu Biennial 移民 Imin Non_sites The Nam June Paik Art Center Korea Non_sites The Ebisu International Festival /Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography 東京都写真美術館 |
2010 | Facehug Künstlerhaus Stuttgart Sandy Brown Berlin Galerie Barbara Weiss Berlin Tunneling / Famous Accountants NY |
2011 | KB 移民 Imin Blueberry land / Wip:konsthall Stockholm Frankfurter Kunstverein Germany CHANNEL TV HALLE FÜR KUNST Lüneburg eV Germany |
2012 | *CFP in Frankfurt Deutsche Börse Residency Program *CFP in Rome Kitakyushu Biennial in Berlin KB In Singapore Robot/ Metro Pictures NY Linnman Gallery Sweden Jönköping JAPAN EXPO 2012 |
| 2013 | A Little About Me: Four works by Robot (John Miller and Takuji Kogo) Robot at New Museum NY Kitakyushu Biennial World Tour in Berlin /ZKU – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik Germany Kitakyushu Biennial World Tour in Busan /TOTATOGA Archive Center Kitakyushu Biennial World Tour in Singapore /The Private Museum 2013 Kitakyushu Biennial information |
2014 | American Sitcom CA Pitzer College Art Galleries California Le Magasin Grenoble Bad Conscience / Metro pictures NY Mother/Land Kurumaya Museum of Art Tochigi Japan ART IN POP / Le Magasin Walk-ins Welcome Gallery Marlborough |
2015 | Boogie Woogie Wonderland Kalmar Museum Sweden KB FIFTH THE KITAKYUSHU BIENNIAL WORLD TOUR Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanis/k Berlin, Jönköpings läns museum Sweden, Gallery Soap AIK Japan Robot/NBK Berlin Kimi Kim Jalan Jalan SG ICA Miami Kyiv Biennial Plas/c Myth / Asia Culture Center Gwangju South Korea |
2016 | This Land Is Mine / Aichi Triennial CFP at Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik KULTIVERA Tranås Sweden |
2017 | *CFP in Singapore A LOVE SUPREME ARKO Online Ads at NEW TOWNTOKYO |
| 2018 | *CFP in 广州 Guangdong Times Museum *CFP in Singapore NTU CCA Singapore Revolu/on Will Not Be Televised / ArKO Museum Seoul LOVE Long / Asia Society Hong Kong Center |
2019 | *CFP in Seoul CFP at Kultivera Tranås Sweden WEB-RETRO / Seoul Museum of Contemporary Art Echo Chamber: Sound Effects Seoul / Alt space LOOP Terms and Conditions: A Sonata for Two Women Prosjektroms Normanns Norway |
2020 | GOOD NEWS Homes for America |
2021 | Your home away from home Robot Singles Collection Small World Records Screening The Box Los Angeles Brilliant Corners Known knowns (video akbum) Gallery Soap |
2022 | On Abstracted Expressions Why Put Stuff On The Wall? June Art Fair / Robot The Allegory of Faith Overgrounnd Fukuoka Ex Caserma Cassonello Noto Italy INDEX |
| 2023 | Homes for America *CFP in Istanbul How to move and respond Haus am Waldsee, Berlin Overgrounnd Fukuoka Slogans & Flags 終戦ノ詔・The Musical Hardy Barracks |
2024 |