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Apr 7, 2024
Exhibition: Shingyo Sketchbook 2000-2024
Studies, bootlegs and remixes towards a complete s11 Heart Sutra 完全な「s11般若心経」に向けた研究、海賊版、リミックス Rubicon ARI gallery, Naarm (Melbourne) 13 -...
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Jul 25, 2022
What's in a name?
When I finally got around to being an artist I found someone had stolen my name.
So it was necessary to take another...
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Apr 25, 2022
Enku's singular vision of the Buddha
The Buddhist Priest Enku's artworks predicted post-Modernism's approach to process and material some 350 years early...
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Apr 22, 2022
Nihonjinron – dangerous illusion or harmless cliché?
"In fact the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people." Oscar Wilde
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Mar 1, 2022
Artist statement and price list 一個顔面は心經の全部であるOne Face Is The Whole Heart Sutra
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Dec 2, 2021
s11 portraits | 三世諸佛 @ Rubicon ARI 1 - 18 December 2021
Artist statement and list of works 2000年9月にメルボルンのクラウン・カジノで開催された世界経済フォーラム(WEF)に対するコミュニティの反応が「s11抗議行動」でした. デモ参加者は、WEFがグローバル企業の利益向上を支援する一方で、...
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Jan 3, 2021
Interrogating Abstract Expressionism using Photography
the image should be based on something, not just chance but there should be chance involved the recognisable should be almost...
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Oct 28, 2020
Why I left social media
So I watched the Social Dilemma. That was probably enough, but it wasn't just that. It had been a long time coming. Sacha Baron Cohen's...
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Apr 5, 2020
When State Power Protects Global Capital: the story behind the S11 portraits
S11 was a protest that happened over three days in Melbourne in 2000. It was a blockade of the World Economic Forum meeting being held...
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Mar 22, 2020
Tracing vs drawing
When you trace it's like always using your GPS: you get where you're going but you don't know how you got there.
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Jan 17, 2020
Hanshoshingyo - calligraphy based on the Heart Sutra
Calligraphy is a performance: no going back, no possibility of corrections, all in. Endless possibility of variation, yet no matter how...
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