*Candy Factory Projects / Takuji Kogo 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025
Drawings Comics Songs Robot Homes for America Non_sites American Sitcom A Love Supreme Slogans & Flags Non_broadcasting time


Chronicle of Imperial Decor 2024



The Shinto Directive 1945

Yokota Airspace

Hardy Barracks

Meiji

赤坂離宮 Akasaka Rikyū

明治神宮外苑 Meiji Shrine Outer Garden

Washington Heights
The Yoyogi National Gymnasium

表参道 Omotesando

Aoyama Park South District

Imperial Decor

終戦ノ詔・The Musical

Anti-Airport Faming

NON SITES/ TAKUJI KOGO 2005 - in progress

Subway

Penny Arcade

Janitor

Vittoria

Flags, a mosque, police,
tourists, gulls and dogs

Family at the Mall

Display

Jasper Jones

Jasper Jones 2

Breakfast

Food Court

David




Lake Park

Vendors

Tiger

Window Display at Night

Girls Chatting at the Laundry

Balloons

Casino

4:50 p.m. Man Smoking,
Woman in a Red Coat,
Man Eating Ice Cream

Hello

Anti-Airport Farming

Blueberry Land

Kitakyushu

Swing and Clock

Military Town

Military Town

5 p.m. Fast Food Restaurant

Mom and Baby Stroller

Kingdom

Dance

Tourists

Rundling

A family on a cloudy beach

DeMilitarized Zone Amusement Park

Lunch Break

天安门 Tiananmen / Drawings (since 2024)

Skandia-Teatern

Skogskyrkogården
Granitkorset, Heliga korsets kapell

Skogskyrkogården
Skogskapellet

Skogskyrkogården
Uppståndelsekapelle

Московский государственный университет

청와대 / Cheong Wa Dae

Saigon Sketches

There are no ghosts after the revolution

Tiananmen

Stars, buildings, coffins and corpses

Imperial Decor, Tokyo

赤坂離宮 Akasaka Rikyū

明治神宮外苑 Meiji Shrine Outer Garden

Washington Heights
The Yoyogi National Gymnasium

表参道 Omotesando

Aoyama Park South District

愉しい服従 The Joyful Obedience

終戦ノ詔・The Musical

The Recipe Of Work Of Art By Mark Rothko

Tiptina

Chinese Erotica

☑︎Unapologetically Me

Total defence duty

Cute or Creepy

Bloodthirsty Unsympathetic Collective

How to reach Lampedusa

Public Housing Singapore



Song of the Day

Song of the Day

Installation View

OTTOBRE. 25, 2022 VIVA L’ITALIA!

AUG. 20, 2022 (2020 was awesome)

JUL. 22, 2022

AUG. 9, 2021 嘘は感染するよ。
Lies are contagious

22.FEB.2025

14.NOV.2022

27.SEPT.2022






*Candy Factory Projects / Online Ads
Installation view at Aichi Triennial 2016

Ciao

Cercasi Badante
Caregiver Wanted!

Colf fissa!
Permanent domestic helpers!

Your Job Won't Stand A Chance!

Plastikkirurgi i Thailand!
Plastic surgery in Thailand!

Bli vår nya stjärnsäljare!
Become our new star salesman!

The Foreign Domestic Workers
Shall Not Get Married In Singapore.

Life wouldn't be the same without safe sea

I'm in MacD at the station

Wanted. Accountant for our factory in Sao Paolo Brazil

As Long As It Does Not Kill Me

Your Easy Solution





愉しい服従 / The Joyful Obedience

終戦ノ詔・The Musical

nO gnioG s'tahW

Singles Collection
Robot (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! 
WE SELL! WE BUY!

House Tour
On-base housing Kadena AB Okinawa

AFN Okinawa 2003

Gate One Okinawa

岩国 Iwakuni, Japan

Route 189

Route 189 / Comics

東京 Tokyo, Japan

Yokota Airspace

Aoyama Park South District

Hardy Barracks

Anti-Airport Farming

Icho Danchi

Washington Heights /
The Yoyogi National Gymnasium

The Shinto Directive 1945



DMZ Korea

DeMilitarized Zone
Amusement Park

Pyeongtaek, South Korea

Welcome, Your Home Away From Home

Hello Classmates

The Exchange Food Court at Camp Humphreys



Sigonella, Italy

MINEO NOR BOUNO

House Tour Marinai

Starving dogs and prostitutes



Sembawang, Singapore

Marriage Enrichment Retreat

Angeles, Philippines

Fields Ave.

HỒ CHÍ MINH, Vietnam

Saigon Sketches

U.S.

American Sitcom
Joining The Airforce



Military Man

 

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”

The Glass House

Verdict

Bees Or Apes

Be Like Me

Maybe Next Time

Still Human

The Mask of Happy

Societies of Control

A Moment of Zen

Below 14th St.

OOO

Why Do Things Have Outlines?

My Name Is Katy

Open to All Ages and Ethnicities

Graceful, Mythologicl, Life-size

Songs For Berlin Childhood

Performer, Audience, Mirror: the Musical

Swedish Gentleman

Singles Collection



Comics

Corso Sicilia

Fields Ave. Angeles, Philippines

Gate One, Okinawa

예쁨뿜뿜♡ APGUJUNG 압구정

ROUTE 189 Iwakuni

HỒ CHÍ MINH NUMBER 1

小北 广州 Xiobei Guangzhou

The Foreign Domestic Workers Shall Not Get Married In Singapore.

NYC Subway

NO

The Exchange Food Court at Camp Humphreys

Levittown

Utopia Go Go

*Candy Factory Projects in SEOUL May 9 - June 9 2019 LOOP Seoul

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES + TAKUJI KOGO

HALBEATH

YOUR J.O.B WON'T STAND A CHANCE

ARIRANG

STATEMENTS

STATEMENTS UKRAINAN

DEMILITARIZED ZONE BUS TOUR WITH BULGOGI LUNCH

WILL I EVER STOP SEARCHING FOR YOU? /
NON_SITES

A LOVE SUPREME

A LOVE SUPREME E/K

KIMI KIM JALAN JALAN

KIMI KIM JALAN JALAN EP2

KIMI KIM JALAN JALAN EP3

ASMR MY DMZ DUB

POETRY READING_I JUST QUIT MY JOB TODAY

HALBEATH
Takuji Kogo + Young-hae chang heavy Industries  2001

*Candy Factory Projects in SIngapore
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

Online Ads

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

HOMI/TOYOTA
2009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.

Mike Bode +Takuji Kogo

NON_SITES

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

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

KITAKYUSHU BIENNIAL THE FIFTH
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
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

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 2014

The Waiting Game ROBOT

Walk-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
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

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.
We all take the sea for granted.
But that wouldn't be possible without the advanced naval techonology that is deployed around our shores.
Take the sophisticated Harpoon missiles.
These smart weapons, installed on the Navy's
Missile Corvettes, can destroy targets as far as 90 km away. To avoid detection by radar, they travel at blistering speeds just a few feet above the waves. They are deadly and they are dependable. But what's the best thing about these missiles? They make sure you don't even have to think about sea. Ever.

Janitor

Breakfast

Food Court

David

Public Housing Singapore

Beaches

Casino

A family on a cloudy beach

The Foreign Domestic Workers Shall Not Get Married In Singapore.

Life wouldn't be the same without safe sea

Homes for America Sembawang

KIMI KIM JALAN JALAN

KIMI KIM JALAN JALAN EP2

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
Mike Bode + Takuji Kogo
Kitakyushu Biennial 2011
wip:konsthall Stockholm, Sweden 2011

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

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

*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
Yoshitaka Mouri / director of the film screening + symposium, Otomo Yoshihide : director of the music event)
Curated by Takuji Kogo + Keiichi Miyagawa

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 Published by A.I.K

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

Media Madrid Spain

CUTE or CREEPY?
A Song for the Silicon Valley
San Jose Museum for 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

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 2006

A *CANDY FACTORY PROJECT / Hyper-links for dead links
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art 2006p

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. 

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 II
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

Your Easy Solution

*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, Toronto

MAAP in Singapore Singapore Art Museum (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
A series of empty TV studio sets views broadcast at the exhibition space, online and cable Television networks.

Non_broadcasting Time Jp
Wake Up Time : Publication
In collaboration with John MIller 2000

TYS Yamaguchi Japan
Art In The Home Yamaguchi Japan 2001

TNC Fukuoka Japan
Re:map @ Laforet Museum Kokura Japan 2001

Golden time
Postmasters gallery NY 2001

WHY EBS
Korean Web Art Festival 2001

Traveling Around China China Central Television Beijing
MAAP Beijing
China Millennium Monument Beijing 2002

Neighbours
Centre for Contemporary Photography Melbourne 2002

Fox news
Walker Art Center Minneapolis 2003

中学生日記 Middle School DIaries
Walker Art Center Minneapolis 2003
Aichi Arts Center 2003

Subway
Aichi Arts Center 2003

 

청와대 / Cheong Wa Dae
2025

自粛中継 / Self-Censored Live Broadcast
2013

赤坂離宮 Akasaka Rikyū
2024

Yokohama Triennial 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

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 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

SIT.COM
1998-9 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
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 Projects

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.

*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)
A series of music videos with text animations created from online texts, sung by vocal synthesizers. The project has been shown in various Candy Factory projects with large-scale outdoor sound installations.

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)

1994~1996 古郷卓司

1998 -2001 *Candy Factory Yokohama

2000 *Candy Factory SIT.COM

2001 Yokohama Trienniale

2002 Melbourne, Beijing

2002 AIAV

2003 Non_broadcasting Time

2003 BOOGIE WOOGIE WONDERLAND

2004 Scream
Campaign & Products

2005 Rooseum / Songs @ AIAV

2006 Sanjose

2006 Brisbane, Hiroshima, Madrid

2007 The MOMA, NY

2007 Kitakyusyu Biennial

2008 北九州

2009 移民 IMIN

2009 Non_sites

2010 Non_sites

2011 移民 IMIN

2012 Rome, Singapore

2012 KB in Berlin, Frankfurt

2013 Kitakyushu Biennial World Tour

2014 American Sitcom

2015 KB THE FIFTH

2015 Robot NBK

2015 Boogie Woogie Wonderland Kalmar

2016 Aichi Triennial

2017 SINGAPORE

2018 A LOVE SUPREME

2018 SINGAPORE CCA

2019 SEOUL Alt space Loop

2019 Homes for America

2020 Quarantine

2021 Known Knowns

2022 Song of the day

2023 Overground

2024 Imperial Decor

2025 Joyful Obedience


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

Blueberryland
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

Keiichi Miyagawa SANRIDUKA

Self-Censored
Live Broadcast

KITAKYUSHU

2007 Kitakyusyu Biennial

2009 移民 IMIN

2011 移民 IMIN

2013 Kitakyushu Biennial World Tour

2015 KB THE FIFTH

2016 Aichi Triennial

Sean Snyder U.S. BASES OKINAWA
IWAKUNI


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