The morning was dedicated to work in my little Japanese cell. Lunch with Georg Kochi from the Asian Cultural Council to touch base about my activities in Japan. Georg is definitively nice. We discussed Let's Entertain, the artists I met, and who would be interesting to propose for a grant.

Left Georg who was leaving for his hometown, Los Angeles, and went to a studio visit with Oi Ogawa and Takeharu Ogai, whom I knew about thanks to Yutaka Sone. They are very young and live with their family, parents, and grandparents together. Their room is the studio. They are living in an area of Tokyo, which when you arrive welcomes you with: Disaster Procedures and Refuge locations.



Good to know. Good to know that everything could stop right away.

They are doing photographic work in a strange way. They are building a little (tabletop) model of an ideal landscape. A place they dream about. A place they've never been. A place they do not even want to go. And then they take a photo and that's it. It looks real.

They were really nice and weird. They had their own translator (good news) who was a photographer and found a way to introduce his own work. But it was OK. We like to share. The end of the meeting was punctuated by a moment of panic when I thought I had lost my passport, money and credit cards. Of course I was looking in the wrong place.

The end of the day was dedicated to a lecture at the Spiral Hall by Ute Meta-Bauer, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Akiko Miyake from the Center for Contemporary Art (Kitakyushu). They all presented their programs and activities. Quite interesting. The CCA seems to be one of the most interesting places in Japan. But far away from any of my upcoming destinations; which pissed me off a little bit. Dinner with all these people and Langlands & Bell, who shared a taxi, as well as the anxiety of missing the curfew at the International House, with me.