August 3rd, 2008 — Art
The Grass Bike needs a lot of water in the August sun. I went to the studio to water the grass as well as pull out a pile a weeds. At first I thought that the grass would have a hard time taking hold now it has taken hold and needs constant trimming [...]
July 28th, 2008 — Art
One Day Sculpture performance in Nagoya, Japan on August 17, 2008. I will start at the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and then plummet through the downtown streets of Nagoya in a large meandering pattern. Big Red will be the star of the show. I will also have an inflatable installation on [...]
May 3rd, 2008 — Art
During the performance of Big Blob at the Nagakutte Cultural Center in Nagoya, the owner of a new onsen in town asked me if I would do a performance in the spring for the one year anniversary of the hot springs. He requested Big Blob but I knew that it would be hotter so [...]
May 2nd, 2008 — Art
Today I finished up the routing of the two chains that will power the “grass bike.” The first chain goes around the chainring on the cranks to a rear cassette bolted below. From that cassette a separate chain makes the long trip to the rear sprocket on the rear wheel. The central cassette serves as [...]
April 1st, 2008 — Art
I pulled some bikes from the gutter to use on my next project. My studio has filled up with stuff and now I need to turn these objects without value into art. Because of entrance exams for the new school year I was unable to use the studio during March so one day I [...]
March 13th, 2008 — Art
The school year in Japan ends in February and March and starts up again in April. Therefore graduation exhibitions typically occur in March. Tani Kaoru (谷かおる), a former graduate student, exhibited his final thesis sculpture on the grounds of the university. I went to go see the installation which consisted of a [...]
March 8th, 2008 — Art
Kjell Hahn and I graduated together from Truman State University in 2001 and about six months later we both came to Japan under different mechanisms, but coincidentally landed in the city of Himeji in western Japan. I taught English in southern Himeji at a conversation school and Kjell taught at a local high school. [...]
February 21st, 2008 — Art
Nagoya Univeristy does not have an Art Department. There is an Art History Department but no studio component. I coincidentally met a professor of informational science from the university at an art exhibition earlier in the week. He mentioned that he is establishing a new experimental space at the university called「clas」. He [...]