Atopic Exhibition: On Camp/Off Base
Tokyo, Japan, 1996
Featuring No Blood/No Foul (Oakland Projects)
This is an exhibition in which projects by artists tackling various issues concerning the city around the world under the theme of “The crisis and the regeneration of the city”, are exhibited at the Tokyo Big Sight located in the new coastal city area, an area symbolizing the extreme of post-urbanism. The artists involved in the projects tackle the specific issues of a cities, while sharing the problems of the “city”, understood today in a broader meaning. They also maintain a global viewpoint, at the same time developing activities based on a very micro-political level which is the standpoint of the people living in such places. Moreover, this is done not as a social movement, but as an activity done by an outsider.
Lacy and her collaborators, Jacques Bronson, Mike Shaw and Unique Holland, created a regulation sized basketball court where a visitor could shoot hoops and simultaneously watch video interviews along the fence, with youthy and police, translated into Japanese. A graffiti mural produced by Namane Mohlabane and featuring local artists: Pak, Dream, Poem, Done, Tense, Vogue, Muet was featured on the opposite side of the installation.
Curated by Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Akira Tatehata, Noayuki Takashima, Yukiko Shikata, and Kenjiro Okazaki