ARTISTS: MIKE BODE & STAFFAN SCHMIDT, JOHN MILLER, AKIRA MORI, OLA PEHRSON, SEAN SNYDER, YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, *CANDY FACTORY, 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
Publication : Lost in space
KANEBO HOFU FACTORY 鐘紡防府工場 TAKUJI KOGO + MIKE BODE Combination 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.
Takuji Kogo in collaboration with Tetsu Takagi, Kazunari Horiguchi. Pavilion sculpture : Gallows
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 ).
SIT.COM/ *CANDY FACTORY
1998-2001
Online Project /
C-theory Multimedia net noise collection /
Cornell University U.S.A
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/Postmasters Gallery NY 2001/
Art Frankfurt Germany 2001/
Les rencontres internationales de la photographie d'Arles,
Antic theatre, Arles, France 2000
John Miller / Mouchette /G.H. Hovagimyan / Rainer Ganahl / Valery Grancher/ Chrysanne Stathacos / Ganso Maeda / Tetsu Takagi / Kazunari Horiguchi / Minoru Inayoshi / Federico Baronello
Online Project: DOT.JAPAN by Barbara London MOMA NY
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