Cao Fei has created a virtual Yokohama within the online world of 'Second Life', encouraging visitors to ''play with your triennale.''Photo: OK
Hans Ulrich Obrist, one of the five co-curators, is genuinely pleased to learn that Cao's virtual Yokohama features a Hans character dancing the YMCA in unison with a few other well-known curators.Photo: OK
Joan Jonas rehearsing shortly before her performance, which uses an impressive layering of pre-recorded sounds, images, live image-making, and so on.Photo: OK
Jonas' rehearsal in the performance hall, complete with interesting spiraling wooden observation platform structure...Photo: OK
In the hallway nearby, a chance encounter with a Terence Koh work, a part of his mysterious parade-like performance project for the triennale.Photo: OKA more playful way to make one's point: Miranda July's hallway story uses disarming wit and charm...Photo: OK
One direction in English and one in JapanesePhoto: OK
A rare chance to see Japanese films based on performance from the 1950s to the 1970s, by people such as Hi Red Center and the Gutai group, or living Butoh legend Min Tanaka.Photo: OK
See-sawing microphones, as voices read speeches made for post-partition India and Pakistan. Shilpa Gupta's second work stands out as a very elegant, powerful statement.Photo: OK
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.
