Date: 12/6/98 9:04 AM
Received: 12/6/98 9:48 AM
From: Philippe Vergne, philippe.vergne@walkerart.org
To: Louis Mazza, louis.mazza@walkerart.org
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That's it, I am seek. I have a food thing in the stomac and believe me this quite humiliating. I had to forget about breakfast because these seamingly fancy hotels stop serving breakfast at the time you really want to have a breakfast. I had a meeting at 10:00 am with Mr. Misami from the collective Ideal Copy. I was miserable. Misami came to pick me up at the hotel. This was a good news. We went to his studio and he told me about their activities as a group. They work as an agency doing different kind of projects from exhibition, design, and DJing in clubs. The only good club in Kyoto seems to be the one named Metro.

 

 



Misami was in a music mood constantly put music. His studio looks like the Star Trek Enterprise, full of electronic. I had to say that thanks to my stomach, I was in hell during this studio visit and hope he did not notice. We went for lunch. I was thinking that lunch would cure me. Absolutely not.



Then I decided to do some sightseeing and went to a Temple. Maybe the Gods would do something for me. No! But, I had to leave this holly place to go and meet with artist Miwa Yanagi. She is working with photo and computer manipulation and is represented by Ishiko Isshiki. No photo. Some time you feel that a camera would not be welcome in the conversation. Back to my hotel to rest. Had a little nap (that I deserved) few phone calls and went to Yuko Hasegawa place for a very nice dinner where we continued the conversation started few days before in Tokyo. Mr. Misami was invited too and I meet Yuko's husband who is very nice, very tall and a medicine teacherat the university. One of the attraction of the evening was to locate Minneapolis on a map.

Stomach was better, thank you.

Bed.