After Hours

After Hours was a 4-day-meeting co-organized by A.I.T. (Tokyo) and Samuso (Seoul) in parallel with Yokohama Triennale on New Institutionalism. Hu Fang spoke on the first day.

BizArt in Yokohama

Fancy shop space in Koganecho Bazzaar to replace the spot previously frequented by prostitutes.

Akasaka

Arrived in Yokohama on September 10 and had the evening free. Went with Hitomi to the opening of the Akasaka Art Flower 08 in an abandoned primary school. Curated by Kenji Kubota, it cost hugh amount of money to renovate the premises up to basic standard before they could put any art in it.

I met Tsuyoshi Ozawa three years ago and saw him again tonight. He made this kids' wonderland.

Podcast with Tobias Berger

Tobias Berger talks with Hong Kong art critic Jaspar Lau at the time bidding his farewell to Hong Kong after three and a half year as Executive Director of Para/Site Art Space. From September 2008, Berger will become the Chief Curator of the brand new Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul. English, 60 min.
Remark: this is the second recording of the interview after a disastrous technical problem of the recorder. However, the technical problem repeated and a ten min-long sound clip was missing in the first quarter of this recording.
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Podcast with Roger McDonald

Roger McDonald, Deputy Director and Co-founder of A.I.T. (Arts Initiative Tokyo), one of very rare curator-initiatives in Asia, talks about the founding of their organization in the context of contemporary art development in Japan. 47min. English
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The Spectacle of Space Consumption (right after it's produced!)

City Cooke@Lights Out

In progress