GEISAI ticket booth at Tokyo Big Sight.Photo: Katrina Grigg-Saito Ryoko Arai's creative use of her booth.Photo: KGS Aya Minakawa creates trash made of rice kernels.Photo: KGS Sachiho Kondo's lipstick sculptures.Photo: KGS Dango Ozawa poses with her anime-inspired paintings.Photo: KGS Narumi Mogi and Yoshiko Watanabe's condom filled with water and a tiny camera-shy fish.Photo: KGSMotonori Kawamura's paper sculpture.Photo: KGS
Artist Mia Liu adjusts her sculptures made from used Guggenheim tickets from her days working at Visitor Services.Photo: KGS A close-up of Shuhei Yamada's plexiglass and gloss painting. The process takes one month.Photo: KGS The artist with the bottom half of his self-portrait.Photo: KGS Fareeza Terunuma sits in front of her graphic self-portraits.Photo: KGS All pieces are jurored. Writer Lily Franky looks on as Naoko Fukuda eagerly explains her work.Photo: KGS The main stage where the winners are announced late in the day.Photo: KGS Performance artists like last year’s silver medalist, unit. maker roamed the hall creating impromptu pieces.Photo: KGS Performance art group Miracle Passions went horribly awry with a black-face minstrel show.Photo: KGS Takahiro Ogihara and his tea-party set-up.Photo: KGS The food van.Photo: KGS Some, like Mayumi Okabe, focused on wearable-art.Photo: KGS T-Shirts by Shawn Miller.Photo: KGS Some pieces were more product-oriented, like G-Process's bowls.Photo: KGS Gaku Nakano traded paper bag wallets for whatever the viewer thought it was worth.Photo: KGS Artist Tsubasa Takahashi looks down a row of booths. Her ink work with office pens is in the foreground.Photo: KGS
Born in Boston, but with her first memories of Hawaii, Katrina Toshiko Grigg-Saito arrived in Tokyo in December of 2007. She received her Master's from Boston University as an Earhart Fellow in Journalism and Sociology. Her work was on societal views of multi-racial identification, and took radio form in a piece she wrote and produced for <a href="http://www.npr.org/">NPR</a>. From 2005-2006 she was a member of <a href="http://www.uniondocs.org/">UnionDocs</a> in NYC where she curated, performed, made art, wrote <a href="http://yellowarrow.net/index2.php">yellow arrows</a>, orchestrated performance events and cooked massive dinners. As a dancer and actress she performed a lot, but liked most working as a dancer at the Joyce Soho in NYC on 29 Friends, playing a gang banger at the Huntington, singing at the Volksbühne in Berlin and being a company member/writer for the <a href="http://www.nyneofuturists.org/site/">NY NeoFuturists</a>. Now she writes for <a href="http://www.skirt.com/">Skirt Magazine</a>, <a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/">Japan Times</a>, <a href="http://www.metropolis.co.jp/specials/744/744_top.htm">Metropolis</a> and is Vice Editor of this site here.
