A text included in the catalog of “The Place for Socks,” an exhibition by Kain Picken at CONICAL in Melbourne. Kain is an Australian artist and co-founder of ffiXXed. The text looks at our increased movement between spaces, where “the endpoint of that movement is a human-space singularity as the spaces themselves remain the same, but our image of them converges.”
A text for Kunstverein NY and White Zinfandel, part of curatorial project by Ashley Rawlings involving a collection of texts expanding on each entry in The Anarchist Cookbook. I wrote a religious tract about the organometallic chemical Cacodyl, listed as a dangerous gas in the Cookbook.
A short interview published in the December, 2012 issue of Weltkunst Magazine with Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto about his large scale suspended sculptures at Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo.
Portraits of Japanese inventor Yoshiro Nakamatsu (born June 26, 1928), also known as Dr. NakaMats, inside the basement of his Tokyo compound. Published in Issue 2 of Smith Journal.
An article for Dwell Asia about the ’Reversible Destiny Lofts’ apartment complex in Mitaka, Tokyo, designed by conceptual artists Arakawa and Gins who claim the apartments have the ability to let their residents live forever.
Unpublished short text on Japanese artist Teppei Kaneuji. Commissioned by VICE, but the project fell through and the article was never published. Written in North Queensland, November, 2011.
From an interview with Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul about the jungles in his films Tropical Malady, Uncle Boonmee and his Primitive series. The interview took place in Tokyo in June, 2011 and printed in Issue 2 of Too Much: Magazine of Romantic Geography.
An essay about Japanese artist Kyohei Sakaguchi’s mobile homes and shortcuts to housing, based on homeless methods and techniques. Published in Issue 2 of Too Much: Magazine of Romantic Geography, and the catalog of ‘Pacific,’ an exhibition at Scion Installation L.A. in 2010.
An article with Alin Huma about building, renovating and using a small space in Tokyo. The space Huma ran has now changed hands but he is producing a fashion reader under the same name. Published online by The Internetwork in November 2010.
Published in the first issue of Correspondencia, in 2010. Some thoughts about acid folk music and Christian drug burnouts from the late ’60s to early ’70s.
Casual observations about how you see Tokyo while you walk through it. Published online by 3 News New Zealand as a opinion piece and printed in Acclaim Magazine in 2010.
An interview from 2010 with Japanese artist Masanao Hirayama (b. 1976), also known as Himaa, about his books, performances and the wooden, hand-operated photocopier he built-in his home.
Co-edited the first issue of TOO MUCH, featuring Japanese architecture unit SANAA, director Mike Mills, stylist Nicola Formichetti, Taro Hirano, a parasite magazine by Abake, and architecture critic Taro Igarashi on ‘Gigantic Architecture by Japanese Sects.’
An article for CNN Travel about those working poor in Tokyo who live inside internet cafe’s temporarily, or homeless who live there more permanently. They are dubbed ‘Net cafe refugees.’