I have been organising and curating a series of tactical exhibitions which uses a large suitcase as its mode of transportation. Called The Moving Collection, this exhibition (with much respect to similar predecessors such as the suitcase platforms of Duchamp, Fluxus etc) has travelled to various places from Okinawa, New Zealand and Western Japan. The exhibition changes its forms of display according to each host space, trying as much as possible to use what is already available, without bringing in extra structures. Body-Con is the exhibition I curated in late 2002 and shows the work of 15 artists. It has been shown in Okinawa as part of a large arts festival there, in the Fukui prefectural museum, a small gallery in Tokyo and is currently showing in the arts bookshop, Nadiff. The exhibition brings together videos, painting, objects and photographs by artists who have an interest in the body and its various (often extreme) manifestations. A mannequin dressed as me holds two small poo-shaped 'adaptives' by Austrian Franz West, and wears a 'hat sculpture' by Naotaka Shimamoto. I will post individual blogs about specific works in the exhibition over the course of the exhibition which ends Feb 18. I will give a curators talk in the bookshop on Feb 8th from 6pm (free). One of the artists, Muneteru Ujino, will make a sound performance on Feb 18th with his noise sculpture The Rotator (which I blogged about earlier). The artists showing works in Body-Con are: Nancy Nisbet, Franz West, Mayumi Kuronuma, Satoru Aoyama, Minerva Cuevas, Muneteru Ujino, William Pope L., Babak Ghazi, Naotaka Shimamoto, Hiroko Okada, Peter McDonald, Lara Baladi, David Blandy, William Cobbing and Saki Satom.
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