*Candy Factory @ Yokohama Triennial 2001

*Candy Factory participated in the Yokohama Triennial 2001 with 2 exhibition spaces. 

Space 1 with a pavilion sculpture installation made of a fluorescent yellow gallows. The design is taken from the 40's Hollywood screwball comedy film "His Girl Friday" with tatami floor and fitness equipment, wheelchairs to invite the audience to play. 

Space 2 as a gallery space for collaborations with 3 computer projections with 3 programmes. 

1, Sit.com by Takuji Kogo, the project to collect online harassment messages to be forwarded to the Yokohama Triennial audience, inserting artists' video programme, including G.H. Hovagimyan, Sandra Vivas' performance video, John Miller's analytical map for Personal Ads in NY, Federico Baronello's documentary video for a psychiatric sanatorium in Sicily. 

2. Nunotani, Takuji Kogo and Mike Bode, 3 projections of Nunotani Building, documentations of an abandoned post-modern office building in Tokyo. 

3. Take Me To the Art Festival, Takuji Kogo and Gaku Tsutaya, created a female account on a dating site with the message "Take Me To the Yokohama Triennial" and installed all the messages with text and their own icons as animations. 

Installation 1 : Gallows, fitness equipments, wheel chairs

Space 1
Pavilion sculpture : Gallows
Takuji Kogo, Tetsu Takagi, Kazunari Horiguchi

Projections
Directed by Takuji Kogo
In collaboration with : Mike Bode ( Nunotani Bldg.), Federico Baronello, John Miller, G.H Hovagimiyan, Sandra Vivas, Chrysanne Stathocos (Sitcom /Multi projections), Gaku Tsutaya ( Take Me to the festival).

NUNOTANI BLDG. 

布谷ビル 2001~ 2004
NUNOTANI 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

Art In the home, New Media Scotland Edinburgh

Halbeath

Takuji Kogo + Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries

A 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.

*Candy Factory Projects