Syndicate: Mischa Kuball "Power of Codes: Space of Speech"

[yshikata@crpg.canon.co.jp (Yukiko Shikata)]

Mischa Kuball
"The Power of Codes: Space of Speech"

October 12(Tue) to 31(Sun), 1999
at Tokyo National Museum

an installation work held as part of the inaugural exhibition
of the Heiseikan Gallery

the first comtemporary art project in the oldest museum in Japan


Organized by: Tokyo National Museum, Goethe Institut Tokyo
Supported by: Embassy of Federal Republic of Germany
Sponsored by: BASF Japan Ltd.
Special thanks to: Tokyo Studio Co.Ltd.

Curated by Yukiko Shikata

Project info.: http://www.goethe.de/tokyo
Mischa Kuball: http://www.art-index.com/kuball/


"Power of Codes: Space of Speech" is a site-specific project by
Duesseldorf-based artist Mischa Kuball for the Tokyo National Museum.
This is the first contemporary art project in 127-year history of the
oldest museum of Japan.

Mischa Kubal has been working with the social, historical context of the
city and the architecture, architectural spaces, with the notion of
"project" "projection" and "reflection" "reflexion" by using lights from
slides, video projectors and/or lights. His projects include Bauhaus
Dessau, Haus Wittgenstein, Mannesmann Building(Duesseldorf).

The project will be held in the first room of the main building of
"teikan-style," the unique architecture to show the fusion of western
and japanese built in 1932. The upper part of the room of Japanese
poteries would add the immaterial layer of the alphabetical codes by
rotating 6 slide projectors, changing the combinaton(and the whole
space) time by time.

Material - immaterial, east - west, tradition - contemporary, and the
visual codes ofof potery - the alphabetical codes would confront
peacefully in the space, and the visitors would be invited to be in the
"space of speech."


<Mischa Kuball>
Born in Duesseldorf in 1959, lives in Duesseldorf.

[Selected Exhibition]
1990 "Megazeichen" Mannesmann Building, Duesseldorf
1991 "Welt/Fall" Haus Wittgenstein(collaborated with Vilem Flusser)
1992 "Bauhaus-Block" Bauhaus Dessau /
         "Projectionsraum" Konrad Fischer Gallery, Duesseldorf
1993 "Double Standard" De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam
1994  Kunstverein Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duesseldorf /
         "Refraction House" Synagoge, Stemmeln near Cologne
          / "No-Place" Sprengel Museum, Hannover
1995 "Rotierenderlichtraumhorizont, Wandelhalle, Deutzer Bridge, Cologne /
         "Projections/Reflections" Kunst-Sataion St.Peter, Cologne /
         "Worldrorschach/Rorschachworld" Dioezesanmuseum, Cologne /
1996 "Modere, rundum/Vienna Version" Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung
           Ludwig, Vienna
1997 "In Alphabetical Order" Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam /
         "Project Rooms" BM  Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul
1998 "Tower of Power" Herrnhaeuser Turm, Hannover /
          "Project Rooms" Kunstverein, Cologne /
         "Privete Light/Public Light" 24th Sao Paulo Biennale
1999 Exhibitions in Chicago, Leipzig, London, Pittsburg, etc.


for further info.  -> Yukiko Shikata  yukik@gol.com
 (this is a project i work apart from Canon ARTLAB).




Yukiko Shikata, Canon ARTLAB
DK Bldg.5F, 7-18-23 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032
Tel: +81-3-5410-3611, Fax: 3615 http://www.canon.co.jp/cast/
-"IO_DENCIES" at Venice Biennale
-"SoundCreatures on the Web"(url above)
-ARTLAB9(Atsuhito Sekiguchi): October 6-17 in Tokyo


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