Date: 12/2/98 7:02 PM
Received: 12/3/98 12:01 AM
From: Philippe Vergne, philippe.vergne@walkerart.org
To: louis.mazza, louis.mazza@walkerart.org
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Meeting in the morning with Yuko Hasegawa at the Setagaya Art Museum in Tokyo. Good meeting. Long conversation. What I like about Japanese meeting in Museums is that they invite you in little "salons" where everything is quite, where you can smoke and havea nice cup of tea. Very comfortable. They really know about quality time and space. As Yoshiko Isshiki told me; "Good service in Japan". And I love to have the feliing that people are taking care of me. Nice conversation but I did not feel that Let's Entertain is a project for them. Yuko introduced me to the director of the Museum. A friend of Martin Friedam and an old supporter of the Walker.

Left under the rain. I hate rain. Meeting at the Canon Art Lab with Yukiko Shikata and Kazunao Abe. Canon Art lab is a place where artists can experiment with technology. Nice because not too much in what I call the "techno kitsch. They are doing a project with mark America.

Left for a lecture by artist Kawamata about his new, or on going project.

Dinner with Kawamata and Cie. No comments. I experimented a new kind of sake while the artist assistants were performing massage to each other. I figured out that I should leave before the situation becomes beyond control and because of the curfew. I was not tin the mood yet for the capsul hotel. Capsul hotel sounds great in theory. But, in the middle of the night the perspective of sleeping in a plastic tube is less seductive.