Posted:Nov 19, 2009

Emerging Directors Art Fair: Ultra 002

Part of Tokyo Design Week 2009, Spiral hosted the Emerging Directors Art Fair: ULTRA 002, managed by Radi-um’s Tsutomu Ikeuchi.

Glass skulls by Erik Dietman at the Berengo Collection booth
Glass skulls by Erik Dietman at the Berengo Collection booth
Photo: William Andrews

Paper minotaur at Nagoya's Ain Soph Dispatch gallery
Paper minotaur at Nagoya's Ain Soph Dispatch gallery
Photo: William Andrews

Ain Soph Dispatch gallery
Ain Soph Dispatch gallery
Photo: William Andrews
Sculptures from Ebisu's gallery POINT
Sculptures from Ebisu's gallery POINT
Photo: William Andrews

Akira Yoshida's grenades, Yukari Art Contemporary
Akira Yoshida's grenades, Yukari Art Contemporary
Photo: William Andrews

Akira Yoshida fiberglass buddha, Yukari Art ContemporaryAkira Yoshida fiberglass buddha, Yukari Art Contemporary
Photo: William Andrews
Gallery Tsubaki sculpture
Gallery Tsubaki sculpture
Photo: William Andrews

Gallery Tsubaki
Gallery Tsubaki
Photo: William Andrews
Photo: William Andrews

Salamanders by Yuki Inoue, Wada Garou
Salamanders by Yuki Inoue, Wada Garou
Photo: William Andrews

William Andrews

William Andrews

William Andrews came to Japan in 2004. He first lived in Osaka, where he was a translator for Kansai Art Beat. Arriving in Tokyo in 2008, he now works as an writer, editor and translator. He writes a blog about Japanese radicalism and counterculture and one about Tokyo contemporary theatre. He is the author of Dissenting Japan: A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture, from 1945 to Fukushima.