flat elephant
In this installation, we wished to make an elephant walk around the Space R. It is a surface representation of our city. Its elusive, and expansive body is described by different kinds of technologies. Communication gadgets deliberately left incomplete are combined with float glass, timber beams, pebbles and steel angles that give the elephant its weight. Computers, microcontrollers, industrial motors, speakers and sensors reconstitute its nervous system creating a new set of relationships in the name of City elephant.
beauty of our pain
“Beauty of Our Pain” is the installation composed of reconstructed fitness machines which would not have looked out of place in the Middle Ages. They represent fitness and the act of confession; the extraction of beauty through pain.
slow box after image
The project was created for the first Tsumari International Art Triennial in 2000 intended to make linkage between 7 towns of Tsumari District. It required the construction of an over-sized camera vehicle (Slow Box) and an archive space (After Image). Slow Box can fit a person inside its wooden structure. It travels across villages with [...]
bed machine
Bed Machine (aka sex machine) was constructed over the period of 14 months between 1991 and 1992 by piecing together debris of the city collected from the streets of London.
fish cabinet
Fish Cabinet belongs to a family of Objects Viewed from the Erased City.
Koshirakura Landscape Workshop.
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