Remixing the City in ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’
4 January 2010
Remixing the City in ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’

Cross-cultural con­nec­tions with Japan­ese artists who explore city space in start­ling new ways, delving into aspects of city life we usu­ally avoid; filth, rats, garbage and scams.

Creative awakening: Yokohama
30 November 2009
Creative awakening: Yokohama

Yoko­hama is using exist­ing assets — from canals, empty ware­houses and banks to liv­ing rooms and kit­chens — in innov­at­ive ways, driv­ing an artistic renais­sance and cre­at­ing a home for Japan’s next cre­at­ive generation.

Now boarding: transformations in transit
12 November 2009
Now boarding: transformations in transit

As pos­sibly the most con­trived and con­trolled built envir­on­ments pos­sible, air­ports are rather sur­real places… a per­fect hab­itat for trans­par­ent float­ing bal­loon people?

Atelier Bow Wow: Recycling Tokyo
12 October 2009
Atelier Bow Wow: Recycling Tokyo

Atelier Bow-Wow con­sider Tokyo as being com­prised of vari­ous pieces – car parks, build­ings and alley­ways – and sug­gest ima­gin­at­ive re-uses of them, like turn­ing build­ings into sun­di­als or cut­ting foot­bridges in half to make obser­va­tion points.

Tatzu Nishi turns public art into an intimate experience
22 September 2009
Tatzu Nishi turns public art into an intimate experience

Japan­ese artist Tatzu Nishi has been build­ing domestic spaces around pub­lic monu­ments, art­works and street­lights for over a dec­ade. Rather than tak­ing art home, Nishi brings homes to art, and has a spe­cial inter­ven­tion planned for the Art Gal­lery of New South Wales.