Category: Recent Activities

  • Maebashi Film Festival

    The 40 minute documentary about my artwork “Sunset House: Language as the house of Being” will be screened at the Maebashi Film Festival. This will be an opportunity to reflect on the project at a crucial point in its life. Just recently the garden has been rebuilt to accommodate the new road built above the…

  • Searching for an unknown island

    I am holding a series of workshops on Momoshima Island this week for a new artwork to be made for the project “100 Ideas on Tomorrow’s Island: What art can do for a better society.” On the first day we will generate ideas of what this island might look like, what kind of plants are…

  • Musical Gathering Video Release

    The creative energy of four musicians, one artist and an entire community were expressed in this musical event held on November 3, 2013 at Sunset House: Language as the house of Being. A special video has been released to share this event held at the end of the Setouchi International Art Festival with new audiences.…

  • Talk Show

    SETOUCHI INTERNATIONAL ART FESTIVAL 2013 Artists Talk Show   Featuring: James Jack (Sunset House: Language as the house of Being) Koji Yamamoto (Awashima Saltworks) Keisuke Yunoki (Island Scene) MC: Yuki Numamoto (West Japan Broadcasting Television) December 23, 2013.  14:00-16:00 Free Admission Kagawa Prefectural Museum 2F Rotunda Takamatsu, 5-5 Tamamacho Tel: 087-822-0002 Sponsored by the Agency…

  • Solvitur Ambulando

                      JAMES JACK + TOSHIAKI TOMITA               November 7- December 7, 2013                    HONOLULU- The Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu Museum of Art School Mezzanine Gallery will feature the collaborative work of James Jack and Toshiaki Tomita in the exhibition Solvitur Ambulando. This exhibition has been made…

  • Musical Gathering at Sunset House

    A special musical event held during the last weekend of the Setouchi Triennial exhibition at Sunset House: Language as the house of Being featuring Ryu Furusawa, Akira Tanabe, Makoto Noumi and Bruce Huebner. This event was a celebration of all those who have supported the exhibition over the past six months as well as signal…

  • Unknown History: Eternal

    Four selected works on paper from the series “Philosophies of Dirt” as well as one pigment installation are included in the group show “Unknown Histories: Eternal” opening today at Waseda Scott Hall Gallery.  This is the fourth in a series of exhibitions curated by artist and archivist Chika Kato which investigates the multiplicity of history…

  • Echo: Poetics of Translation & Environmental Art Forum

      I am participating in a symposium that will investigate the topic of “environment” from the perspectives of four artists. Please come join this opportunity to discuss nature up to and including our urban environment. My presentation will include the memory of dirt in historical layers that are crucial to the series “Philosophies of Dirt”.…

  • Play with Nature, Played by Nature

    “Play with Nature, Played by Nature” Curated by James Jack. Main exhibition installation views at Satoshi Koyama Gallery. April 12 – May 18, 2013 Works by Fumio Aono, Mary Babcock and Maika‘i Tubbs (left to right). Works by Ringo Bunoan, Maika‘i Tubbs, Jackie Brookner and Fumio Aono (left to right). For additional information regarding the…