*CANDY FACTORY has been conducting numerous site specific research projects about U.S Military bases since 2003.
The project focuses on U.S Military bases and their cultural or economic impact on the local hosting society, the abstracted "American city” franchise with their ideological state apparatus.
2020
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A public housing at outskirt of Tokyo next to Atsugi U.S Air Base. During the 80s the Japanese government set up a detention centre for refugees from the Vietnam War and following conflicts in Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam next to the U.S air base where the public housing project become the home for them. Many of refugees from these countries have Chinese backgrounds. Also since the 80s Japanese orphans in China after the WW2 have been returning to Japan and some of them moved into Icho Danchi to seek the chinese speaking community. Since then many of immigrants from different countries have been moving here and there are different communities speaking 5 to 6 each different languages.
Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan
MaDonal (Sorani Kurdish: مادۆنال) is a restaurant located in the city of Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. The owner, Suleiman Qassab, fought in the Kurdish resistance during the 1970s. He became a refugee in Vienna, Austria, where he got a job as a cook at McDonald's. In the 1990s, he applied for permits to create a McDonald's in Iraq, but the McDonald’s Corporation turned him down, due to economic sanctions imposed during the regime of Saddam Hussein, as well as the controlled economy of Iraq at the time.
In response, he established MaDonal Restaurant, which is still in business.
Since establishing MaDonal, Qassab has offered free food to U.S. forces, been threatened and has become a "Kurdish celebrity.
The first McDonald's in Iraq was opened in Baghdad in 2006.
It only served U.S. soldiers at first; another store for Iraqi civilians was opened later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaDonal
Animated street view of Fields Avenue, Angeles City in the Philippines. The street was named after the Clark Air Base airfield, once the largest United States military facility outside of continental United States during the Cold War, serving as an important logistical hub during the Vietnam War. Many of the bars and prostitution dens were owned by Americans as well as local politicians. Recently the street has been dominated by South Korean signs due to large scale industrial investments in the area.
installation view at SULLIVAN+STRUMPF SINGAPORE 2019
沖縄軍用地! 売ります! 買います!
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.
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.
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ROUTE 189 also known as American Street
situated in front of the U.S Marine Corps Iwakuni Air Station Japan.
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と、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。
プリントは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コメントを表示したウェブ・ページ。
This video is made using an online video clip of an interior from the Sigonella U.S military base housing, Sicily uploaded by a U.S military family together with outside views of two identical base housings estates called Marinai 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)
WITH BULGOGI LUNCH
IF I WERE YOU I'LL GO TO THE PALACE
in collaboration with Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries
An interview with a tourist office official for a bus tour of the North-South Korean border.
A *CANDY FACTORY PROJECT / Homes for America (2019 )
Exhibition
*CANDY FACTORY PROJECTS in SEOUL
May 9 - June 9 2019
Organized / Presented by
Alternative Space LOOP
Supported by
the ANA - Arts Network Asia
Japan Foundation
Sponsored by Arts Council Korea
Opening: 6pm May 9th(Thu), 2019
Venue: Alternative Space LOOP
This project is supported by the ANA - Arts Network Asia (www.artsnetworkasia.org)
Screening + Lecture
Takuji Kogo
29th April 2019
Gallery Soap
Art Institute Kitakyushu
