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.