| *Candy Factory Projects / Takuji Kogo | Since 1998 |
| Drawings | Comics | Songs | Robot | Homes for America | Non_sites | American Sitcom | A Love Supreme | Slogans & Flags | Non_broadcasting time |
A *Candy Factory Project Chronicle of Imperial Decor 2024
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明治神宮外苑 Meiji Shrine Outer Garden |
NON SITES/ TAKUJI KOGO 2005 - in progress
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Flags, a mosque, police, |
4:50 p.m. Man Smoking, |
天安门 Tiananmen / Drawings (since 2024)
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Skogskyrkogården |
Московский государственный университет |
Imperial Decor, Tokyo
明治神宮外苑 Meiji Shrine Outer Garden |
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Song of the Day OTTOBRE. 25, 2022 VIVA L’ITALIA! |
終戦ノ詔・The Musical
| 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
| 沖縄 Okinawa, Japan U.S. MILITARY BASE IN OKINAWA! |
岩国 Iwakuni, Japan |
東京 Tokyo, Japan Washington Heights / |
| DMZ Korea |
Pyeongtaek, South Korea Welcome, Your Home Away From Home The Exchange Food Court at Camp Humphreys |
Sigonella, Italy |
Sembawang, Singapore |
Angeles, Philippines |
HỒ CHÍ MINH, Vietnam Saigon Sketches |
U.S. American Sitcom |
WEB-RETRO / 웹-레트로 Seoul Museum of Contemporary Art 2019
The Glass House Takuji Kogo + John Miller / ROBOT
Words : "FBI file for Philip Johnson” ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION Cleveland, Ohio, June 1, 1940. / "An Interview with Philip Johnson at the Glass House 1994”
| Verdict |
Graceful, Mythologicl, Life-size |
Takuji Kogo + John Miller / ROBOT
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The Foreign Domestic Workers Shall Not Get Married In Singapore. |
*Candy Factory Projects in SEOUL May 9 - June 9 2019 LOOP Seoul
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES + TAKUJI KOGO
HALBEATH
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.
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
ROUTE 189 JAPAN
Takuji Kogo *Candy Factory Projects The Private Museum Singapore 06 October — 17 December 2017
A *Candy Factory Project
This Land Is Mine / この土地は私のもの
Kitakyushu Biennial at Aichi Trienniale
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
I이땅은 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
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Flags, a mosque, police, |
4:50 p.m. Man Smoking, |
AMERICAN 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 2015
SAT 6th JUNE 2015. 19:00
Kitakyushu 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
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 Ads
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
Mother/Land / Kurumaya Museum of Art Tochigi Japan 2014
The Waiting Game ROBOTWalk-ins Welcome
Gallery Marlborough Broome Street NY 2014
ART IN POP
Centre National d'Art Contemporain Le Magasin Grenoble France 2014
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 Rome
Candy 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. 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
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The Foreign Domestic Workers Shall Not Get Married In Singapore. |
A *CANDY FACTORY PROJECT in FRANKFURT
Frankfurter Kunstverein
Deutsche Börse Residency Program 2012
Kitakyushu Biennial World Tour 1
KITAKYUSHU BIENNIAL in SINGAPORE 2012 @ The Private Museum
Singapore 2012
A *Candy Factory Project / Nauru Pavilion
(Unrealized.)
Pavilion at the Kitakyushu Biennale 2011 for the promotion of the Republic of Nauru by the Government of Nauru.
移民/IMIN Migrants, Immigrants, Emigrants,
Refugees, Exiles, Expatriates
and Others.
KITAKYUSHU BIENNIAL 2011
John Miller,
Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries
,
Sean Snyder,
Federico Baronello,
Mike Bode,
KUNSTrePUBLIK,
Ola Pehrson,
Keiichi Miyagawa,
Hisao Sotoda,
Gen Sasaki,
Shinsuke Ogawa ,
Takuji Kogo
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
移民/IMIN
Migrants, Immigrants, Emigrants,
Refugees, Exiles, Expatriates
and Others.
KITAKYUSHU
BIENNIAL 2009
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
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.
DEMILITARIZED ZONE BUS TOUR WITH BULGOGI LUNCH
IF I WERE YOU I'LL GO TO THE PALACE
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES + TAKUJI KOGO
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
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 Germany
Sandy Brown Berlin Germany
Non_sites
The Yebisu 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 Kogo
The First Stop on the Super Highway The Nam June Paik Art Center Korea (2009)
北九州 KITAKYUSHU
古郷卓司 + 宮川敬一 TAKUJI KOGO + KEIICHI MIYAGAWA
Gallery 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 Belgium
KITAKYUSHU BIENNIAL 2007
CUTE or CREEPY?
旧JR九州本社ビル
Moji-ko Kitakyushu Japan
STATEMENTS
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. 2007 The Museum of Modern Art New York
MAAP BRISBANE Australia 2006
Donde 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 Valley
San Jose Museum of Art 2006
NAMELESS HEROES, AKA UNSUNG HEROES, DPRK TV SERIES
EPISODE 19
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
Swedish Gentleman 2006
Robot (Takuji Kogo + John Miller)
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 2006
LIBRINO 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 2005
The 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 KOGO
ARTISTS
TAKUJI KOGO / JOHN MILLER / YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES /
DANIEL WESTRUND/ MIJA RENSTROM /LENA GUSTAVSSON / OLA PEHRSON
Collaborations with Ola Pehrson
*Candy Factory Projects at ART METROPOLE TORONT 2004
Coordinated by Chrysanne Stathacos and A.A Bronson
Publication : audio album
ART METROPOLE PRESENTS
*Candy Factory Projects
PUBLISHED
BY ART-METROPOLE TORONTO CANADA 2004
*Candy Factory Project + Instant Coffee
Published by ART METROPOLE
MAAP in Singapore Singapore Art Museum (2004)
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 the following corporations:
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
Media City Seoul / Seoul City Museum of Art Korea 2004
BOOGIE WOOGIE
WONDERLAND
MIKE BODE & STAFFAN SCHMIDT,
JOHN 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
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
*Candy Factory Projects @ AIAV 2002
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.
NON_ BROADCASTING TIME 2000~ 2003
| 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 |
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
*Candy Factory Projects 2000
Pavilion sculpture : Tea house
Fluorescent 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
Gallery Haco Japan 2000
In collaboration with Tetsu Takagi, Kazunari Horiguchi
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
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
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A platform for collaborative art projects by Takuji Kogo. Founded in 1998 in a former candy factory in Yokohama, Japan. *Candy Factory Projects produces abstract views of sites and architecture in political environments. It also transforms fragments of information such as propaganda, personal ads, online comments into music videos with vocal synthesizers. *Candy Factory Projects is visual and musical, constantly relocating its activities, conducting site-specific research, producing exhibitions with multi-channel video and sound installations, screening events, online projects and publications. *Candy Factory Projects is archived at: https://artonline.jp/ Contact : candyfactory(at)icloud.com |
*Candy Factory Projects was originally set up as an exhibition space housed in a former candy factory in Yokohama, Japan in 1998. It moved to the Yokohama Triennale in 2001, the Akiyoshidai International Art Village in 2002. Boogie Woogie Wonderland in Yamaguchi Japan 2003, Scream Färgfabriken Stockholm 2004 Sweden, Art Metropole in Toronto, Canada 2004, Japan at the Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art in Malmö, Sweden 2005. Between 2007 to 2017 *Candy Factory Projects initiated the Kitakyushu Biennial in collaboration with the Art Institute Kitakyushu. Since 2012 Kogo also took his collaborative projects from the Kitakyushu Biennial on a World tour to Singapore at The Private Museum Singapore, to Berlin at Zentrum fur Kunst und Urbanistik, to South Korea Busan Totatoga art center and Jönköping County Museum Sweden. The project is moved to Aichi trienniale 2016.
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*Candy Factory projects in collaboration with the following artists: John Miller, Federico Baronello, Mike Bode, Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries, Charles Lim Yi Yong, Keiichi Miyagawa and Sean Snyder. |
| Projects in progress | ||
| Song of the Day (since 2022) A series of original music videos. Lyrics of songs sampled from the chat on TV news streams on a specific date. |
Drawings
(since 2024) Animated architectural drawings of cities. | Imperial Decor (since 2023) Works based on the urbanism of tokyo. |
Online Ads
(since 2007) |
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. |
Comics
(since 2017) A series of animated panoramic street views . |
| Homes for America(since 2003) The project focuses on the ideological state apparatus of US military bases and their franchise as an abstracted 'American city' and their cultural or economic impact on the local host society, collecting fragments from some of the bases found at locations around the world. |
Non_sites
(since 2003) Photosculptures made from sequenced shots. |
Slogans & Flags (since 2002) |
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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 |