YAGUCHI Katsunobu

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Born in Ibaraki, Japan
Live and work in Ibaraki, Japan

He worked as performance artist in U.K. in 2002-2008.
He now runs small café restaurant in Mito, Ibaraki and also organises local festival and publishes local newspapers.
Selected exhibitions are: "Criterium77 Katsunobu Yaguchi" Art tower mito, Ibaraki, Japan (2009)  Otomo Yoshihide Emsembles -resonance, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Ibaraki (2010)
And selected performance are: "iPROJECTmyCORKING-sonorous son-", National Review of Live Art, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland(2007) "Love with Jikken Hanayo / Jikken Hanako", Asahi art square, Tokyo, Japan(2008) "Speak on United Spirit of Japan in silence and sing on it in bustle", Art tower Mito ACM theatre, Ibaraki, Japan(2009)

 

About works / performance

If we imagined that there was a big blue mountain in Aoyama, both the concept of my work and my work itself would be the way to get the mountain. It is the intangible, which exists in the space between usualness and unusualness.

Untitled(time and time)
2009 backwards clock and clock
350mm×30mm
photo by Tsuyoshi Saito

TOMATORAVEL 2009 pencil and water colour on
paper
290mm×210mm
photo by Tsuyoshi Saito

 

onsen
2010
broken audio, pedestal,
lift pump, pool
installation view: Art Tower Mito cascade
photo: Kozo Kaneda

onsen (detail)
2010
broken audio, pedestal,
lift pump, pool
photo: Kozo Kaneda