Yokohama Triennale 2008 - Shinko Pier
at Shinko Pier, Yokohama
in the Yokohama, Kanagawa area
This event has ended - (2008-09-13 - 2008-11-30)
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Yokohama Triennale 2008: Shinko Pier
To kick start its coverage of the Yokohama Triennale, TAB is bringing you a series of photo reports from a variety of locations in Yokohama to give you a glimpse inside this city-wide art extravaganza.
Olivier Krischer. Olivier is a relative newcomer to Japan, but has been an outside observer for many years. While trying to concentrate on researching recent artistic exchanges between Japan and China, he instead often ends up seeing 'yet another' exhibition. He doesn’t like admitting it, but he harbours photographic aspirations, depending on the weather. He has long focused his interest on photomedia, issues surrounding modernity in Asia, as well as recent art from China, Korea and Japan. » See other writings
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Eva Shibuya
2008-09-15
Hi Oliver,
Thanks for your picture report and comments on the Yokohama Triennale.
The capture on picture Nr. 4 (Work of Jonathan Meese) read:
“Somewhere in here…….left many disoriented”
That’s a very polite way of putting it.
Space is precious and very expensive in urban Japan.
In light of the fact that Meese’s space
is mainly used only for a one day performance, it felt like a cynical,
careless and rude art comment from artist and organizers alike.
I suggest the organizers fill the empty space with some other artwork, in mind comes something like a documentation of Makoto Aida’s simple and brilliant action/sculpture “A Palace for the Homeless” which, after all this years has lost non of its relevance as an art comment.
By the way I missed Meese’s performance “Dr. NO-METABOLISM IN MORNINGGYM like SOLDIER=FLASH=BLUE de MING (BABYKINGKONG IS BACK IN FANTOMAS=GYM) thanks…. 1012-2012” Could someone pls. inform me if it was as empty as title and space make me suspect?
And I would really be happy to hear the space gets finally filled with a visible, finished installation/art work – as befitting an art exhibition. When I want to see empty stages I will walk to a theater when there is no performance on.
Otherwise I am in great favor of events like the Yokohama Triennale, which bring a much needed platform for “difficult” not readily saleable art to Japan.
Eva
Olivier
2008-09-15
!! CORRECTION !!
Please note that as I found, to my dismay, the triennale buses do NOT go to the 4th, and furthest exhibition venue - Sankei Garden… for reasons which nobody could explain to me…. quite incredible really.
Instead one needs to get off at Bashamichi and take a ‘normal’ bus to Sankeien.
Kusagauma
2008-09-17
I too found Meese’s empty spot extremely annoying, especially as it was the very first room you came into. On Saturday, though, he actually he filled it - mostly with junk, I thought, but that of course is a matter of taste. Still, it’s better than Friday’s wasted space.
The bus to Sankeien did run with hourly intervals on Friday, but on Friday only. Chartering a bus is expensive, I guess. Sankeien is very far away from the other venues (30 minutes, one way) but don’t miss it! I thought it was the best part of the show.
The Bogside Artists of Ireland
2009-05-29
It is refreshing for us to see Yokohama take on tbe West’s monbopoly on what passes as important art. The West learnt much from Japan and without her modern Western art would scarcely exist. Japan’s influence via Impressionism, aesthetics and post-Impressionism cannot be understated.