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Daggers thrown at Stars
Comi Comi, 7:Daggers thrown at Stars Fear drives a cold sweat. “Smallpox vaccination” (1934) & “Women Observing Stars” (1936) are paintings by Ōta Chōu. Seen alongside Toshio Matsumoto, his documentary The Weavers of Nishijin (1961) the Whole Earth Catalog and Apollo 11, they suggest a modern conundrum; who are these…
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Members of the World Show
Comi Comi, 6:Members of the World Show: Lei Yamabe and Yuki Okumura versus the World In 2018, the group show “Knowledge and Beliefs of the World” presented three artists and their alter-egos. Three years later “Landslide to be lived off and/or tongues to be deadpan” at MISAKO & ROSEN curated…
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Zone Tripper
Comi Comi, 5:Zone Tripper: On the Grid watching Friction play Kawasaki; Tokyo Rockers, Gin Satoh, Toshio Sasaki. After a short break, Comi Comi 5, returns as part-report and part-question on the eve of the 32nd Olympiad. The first half features a recent live music review from Kawasaki. The second half…
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Wish you were here
Comi Comi #4 Wish you were here: Toru Yoshikawa, Yuu Takamizawa, Kwon Young-woo In time for Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday, Comi Comi 4 is a love letter of sorts to troubled times and the strange sway held over people; it’s about Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Kowloon; about Gus Van Sant,…
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Nerves and New Skin
Comi Comi #3Nerves and New Skin: Mayumi Hosokura, Sung Tieu and Tokuko Ushioda Every good story needs a hero, to “tell the other story, the untold one,” Life on the Wrong Side of Town, and Elective Memory. Featuring: Meret Oppenheim, Virginia Woolf, Ursula K.Le Guin, Ryu Isobe, Seamus Heaney, Shūji Terayama,…
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Positive Entropy
Comi Comi #2Positive entropy: Tam Ochiai, Yoko Pinkham and Masaya Chiba “Art […] has to do with spirit, not with decoration”, Everyday Surrealism, and the Human Zoo Featuring: Luis Buñuel, Mika Tajima, Lavender Opener Chair, Tohmei Diner, LAX BAR, Christoph Meier, Ute Müller, Meret Oppenheim, Max Ernst, Dora Maar, Pablo Picasso,…
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Burn it Down, Build it Up
Comi Comi #1Burn it Down, Build it Up Featuring MISAKO&ROSEN, 4649, Hikotaro Kanehira, Void+, HAGIRWARA PROJECTS, Im Labor, XYZ Collective https://ornumtrauts.substack.com/p/burn-it-down-build-it-up
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Comi Comi, a newsletter
A newsletter seemed like a good idea at the time, but I could be wrong. Either way, I’ll use this to give some structure to all the walking I’ve done, focusing on the road ahead, trying not to scream at clouds. Comi Comi is a series of notes about art.…
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Raijogoogoo
Honestly, I don’t know what’s happening here, and I don’t want to either, but it feels fantastic. The gallery crawl space starved of air is properly claustrophobic and weirdly prenatal, if such a thing could ever be the crime scene the floor suggests. Off topic, I’ve been re-reading A Fire…