A Little Work for Kala Auction
March 20th, 2019Stuck Stick Study II (2019)
In the last summer 2018, a master carpenter Aikawa in Wakayama taught me the beauty of the surface of wood when its cut or carved with a blade tool, without sanding it. Here I just wanted to explore that aspect in conversation with the material. Sticks are from Douglas Fir and the base is Walnut.
Where is Stuck Stick Study I? I am still working on it : )
A New Little Work for ICA Auction
September 16th, 2018I named this “sleep.”
West Collection at SEI in Indianapolis
August 25th, 2018
Building a Boat for the Obon festival in Tanabe, Wakayama, Japan
August 25th, 2018
Leitmotif – through September 16
August 25th, 2018
“Leitmotif” at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
June 25th, 2018
“Leitmotif” has been shown at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art as part of their bicycle themed group exhibition “On Your Left.” (June 23 – September 16, 2018)
In addition to the video projection of “Leitmotif,” there is a form on which visitors can write their answers to these questions.
- What song reminds you of someone you have lost in your life?
- How is the song related to this person?
- Could you share a memory of this person here?
Also, I wrote this text for this version of “Leitmotif.”
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I asked these people in my video to sing a song for someone they have lost in their lives while spinning the wheel of a bicycle.
As a child by looking at a turning wheel, I used to imagine traveling far away. I would step a treadle when my mother was away, or otherwise placed my bicycle upside down then hand-cranked the pedal. I started slowly first, then made it faster and faster traveling through a dark forest and by the shining ocean. Without moving, my imagination was turning endlessly.
When we lose something or someone important, the image and idea of the thing or person cling to our mind and start turning without moving. They are gone, but they keep turning in our mind and in our life. I feel that a turning wheel gives us a time to be with them again as if we are traveling far away with them. Our memory keeps spinning. Our sense of loss is cyclical as a song that repeats in our mind over and over. And it chases itself as if it is trying to make sure the trace of itself.
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Grants Received in 2017
September 27th, 2017I am excited to receive generous grants from these foundations. A grant from Cal Humanities was for Rolling Counterpoint. And other two are for my future project “Exinclusivity – Space for Inclusion.” Stay tuned : )
Rolling Counterpoint: Conversations at Covenant Worship Center
June 28th, 2017These are excerpts from our conversation at Covenant Worship Center in West Berkeley.
Rolling Counterpoint, Conversation at Covenant Worship Center in West Berkeley from Taro Hattori on Vimeo.
Rolling Counterpoint at the Latham Square in Downtown Oakland
June 25th, 2017Performances at Asian Art Museum
June 23rd, 2017Performances by Marissa Bergmann and Dr. Dreame at Asian Art Museum for Rolling Counterpoint. Marissa interpreted the questions we had generated from our conversations at Tenderloin National Forest.
“Rolling Counterpoint” at Asian Art Museum
June 11th, 2017Photography by Mayumi Hamanaka
Interview Excerpts from Tenderloin National Forest
June 10th, 2017Rolling Counterpoint at Tenderloin National Forest from Taro Hattori on Vimeo.
Thank you so much, Orazgul Tachmuradova, Bonnie Borucki, Carl Tinelle, Ezell Bishop, Linda Griffin, Tasha Antonette M. Griffin, Torye Nguyen, Eva Mitala, Mr. Ernie Burstall, Erin Doyle Ebeling, Kalifa, Duane Sears, Rita Whittaker, Taraneh Hemami and Gigi Godard!!
Tenderloin National Forest
May 29th, 2017Photography by Hiroyo Kaneko and Mayumi Hamanaka
Rolling Counterpoint will be featured on Crosscurrents on KALW
May 26th, 2017Jen Chien interviewed Donna Conwell, curator of Montalvo Arts Center and me. It will be on June 7, starting at 5 pm.
Interview on SquareCylinder.com
May 21st, 2017
David Roth interviewed Donna Conwell, curator at Montalvo Arts Center and me for our Rolling Counterpoint (http://www.rollingcounterpoint.com).
Rolling Counterpoint Conversations
April 19th, 2017Another Piece for an Auction
March 30th, 2017For an Auction at Kala Art Institute 2017
Called it “Afflictive Boundedness.” I was thinking about how our ego creates a wall around us, and how this inner boundedness of our identity fails and spills out.
Euphrat Art Museum
January 30th, 2017
Please join “Justice for All?” exhibition if you are in South Bay! I am presenting a new version of “Where Do Birds Go Off to Die?”
Feb 1 – March 23
Torrance Art Museum
January 30th, 2017
“Pulped Fictions” at Torrance Art Museum
Please join “Pulped Fictions” exhibition if you are in the Southern California! I am presenting “till that morning…”
Jan 14- March 4
Rolling Counterpoint Press Release
December 15th, 2016
Photo: Airyka Rockefeller www.airykarockefeller.com
Events of our “Rolling Counterpoint” start in February 2017!!