-2015

Catch #1

Performance
Performers: Clovice Holt, Broque Cummings
Director/Editor: Ion Yamazaki
2015

Stethoscopes

Stethoscope
2015

Cul-de-sac

video
20min
2015

#29117

Collaborative zine project with the subway employees
2014

(Balloons and Cactus)

balloon, cactus, tape, helium
5' x 5' x 5'
2014

Golden Ring

paper, painted wooden ring
2014

Discursos por un mundo mejor

public intervention
Duration: 30 min
2014

While taking subway in Mexico City, I often encountered a certain types of people who had big speakers on their back playing loud music from their CDs that they were selling for 10 pesos (almost equal to 76 cents). I was fascinated by its intensity and made my own CDs which consist of 10 different revolutionary/anti-capitalistic speeches in Latin America. I asked this gentleman I met in a subway station if he could play my CD, and he kindly agreed to do it.

Up and Down

performance with wood block
2014

cast bronze of a Hole in my studio space that I am paying attention everyday so that the legs of my chair don't fall into

cast bronze, pedestal
3 5/8" x 5 3/8" x 7"
2014

talk to me

plywood, hinge, wall phone, telephone cord, telephone jack,
10" x 10" x 6"
2014

108

Performance, table, chair, water bottle, water, urine
2014

I drank 108 bottles of water, colored water, orange juice and different kinds of tea little by little and urinated back into those empty bottles. There are many stories associated with the number “108” in Hinduism and Buddhism; one example says that there are 108 earthly temptations to over come to achieve nirvana. This meditative and torturous repetitive process gives an example of how I function as a living organism and what I am and am not physically capable of.

30 days of barefoot

Inkjet print mounted on foam board
each image 10"x8"
overall 10"x22 1/2'
2013

For 30 days, I walked around downtown Atlanta barefoot. I was walking down the streets everyday, but I had never "felt" the environment I was surrounded by directly. This is the documentation of the interaction between my sole and the city.

Say it loud, i'm jap and i'm proud

Performance
2013

Statement

People tend to use stereotypes to understand something foreign to them. Sometimes stereotyping helps people understand things easily, but a lot of times it does not match to their characteristics. A lot of times things are much more complicated than describing them with a single word or sentence. Every once in a while, people see me based on my nationality, race, sex and age, but hey, I am more than that. This young Japanese dude likes James Brown as much as others do, and that is a part of my identity.

american struggle

Medium: wood, nuts, bolts, rag screws, wooden basket, cast wax, chain
Dimension: HxLxW=7'x4'x5'
2013

Statement:

Conflicts among people with different backgrounds have been deeply tied into the history of the American continent. Many of those conflicts are alive only in historical archives and people's memories that are sometimes passed down to generation to generation. We cannot experience those events from the great past, but it is valuable to reexamine them from fragmented information since they affect our contemporary society in one way or another.

mundane affair

Medium: performance with table, chair, chalkboard paint, glass jar, paint brush, basket, water, and tangerine
Performing Space: HxLxW=7'x5'x5'
2013

Statement

When I went back to my hometown for the first time in three and a half years, I was surprised by the progress of my grandmother's dementia. Although I felt sorry for her, at the same time, I was very interested in how she repeats herself and recognizes things around her. Performing this piece becomes not only an act of enlightening about the decease and aging, but also my appreciation of her memory and herself as my grandmother. By retelling the stories she used to tell me a lot over and over again, I am providing the similar experience that I had when I was with my grandmother.

Pineneedler

performance, pine needle, raffia, water, straw
2012

I was trying to create temporal social space in public to have random encounters. I went several different places to have various responses on my performance. While I introduce traditional basketry making to people, I encourage them to have conventions with me on random things in our lives