kaz on other sites:
www.cyberhokusai.blogspot.com
www.instagram.com/kazispresent
www.instagram.com/kazislooking
vimeo.com/kazartmovies
www.youtube.com/user/artmovieskaz
www.visionforum-londonhouses.blogspot.com
absolute now II
Group Exhibition
Rieko Akatsuka - George Barber - Kaz - Guy Sherwin - Tereza Stehlikova
Curated by Kaz
Due to unforeseen circumstances the exhibition has been postponed ansd rescheduled for March 2026. Dates to be confirmed.
2025/6/28 (fri) - 2025/7/25 (fri)
Danielle Arnaud
123 Kennington Road
London SE11 6SF
‘Eternity does not exist anywhere but in changing time. Eternity is the absolute now.’
In his 1956 essay Time and Eternity, D.T. Suzuki—an influential Japanese Zen Buddhist scholar and philosopher—reflects on the nature of eternity, which he describes as fixed, and on changing time, stating that the two arise in opposition to each other as a result of binary thinking. He argues that change and eternity cannot exist independently and concludes as above.
For the 10th anniversary of absolute now—a group exhibition originally held in Tokyo—five of the participating artists return to revisit and further explore the seemingly paradoxical notion of the coexistence of both moving and fixed time.
In absolute now II, each artist presents a new installation using the moving image—a medium composed of a series of still images—to consider what ‘absolute now’ and being present mean within a socio-political landscape that has shifted significantly over the past decade. The exhibition also questions what it means to be present at a time when ‘truth’ has become an apparently malleable concept, and when escaping the here and now has become increasingly easier through social media and so-called technological ‘advances’.
The exhibition will include a curated events programme.
The Absolute Now
Contributor
Kaz's essay on the text Absolute Now by D.T. Suzuki, a renowned Buddhist scholar who spread Zen to the West, is now available to read in the September 2024 issue of the TT Journal.
The article begins with an English translation of this essay only available in Japanese, in which Suzuki contemplates the relationship between time and eternity, followed by Kaz's commentary and interpretation of ideas contained in the text.
Read it here: https://tangibleterritory.art/journal/issue-7-content/the-absolute-now/
How has Climate Change Affected Your Life?
Contributor
Kaz contributed to a project initiated by Peter Jaeger who is a poet, a literary critic, and a text-based artist.
Jaeger asked various people the question: 'How has climate change affected your life?' and compiled and published the responses as a PDF booklet of the same name in March 2024.
Download How has Climate Change Affected Your Life? here.
Return Journey
Solo exhibition at tadpole-lab, Tokyo
2023/12/8 (fri) - 17 (sun)
tadpole-lab
Omotesando
Tokyo
Exhibition open Friday to Sunday
1pm-7pm
Return Journey makes use of a video shot on train from London’s Heathrow Airport to the city centre on Kaz’s return to London, where he lives and works, from Japan, his country of birth. This new site specific video installation explores where we come from and questions what is ‘reality’ and ‘truth’.
For the work, Kaz uses a technique he has been working with in recent years where a video is projected through sheets of glass to create multiple moving images in the exhibition space with a single projector.
The ‘actual’ image is projected onto a wall as the beam go through glass, while multiple reflected ‘false’ images from each of the 10 glass sheets co-exist in the space and these, along with the constantly changing scenery seen from a moving train provide a space to contemplate the source of everything, including the self.
PostROOM presents Projection ROOM 3
Screening of artists' short films under 10 minutes
2023/1/03 (tue) & 04 (wed)
postROOM
London N1
United Kingdom
www.postroom.online
Kaz's video work 25 to 1 and Back will be shown as part of a screening along with the following artists' works:
Greta Alfaro
Victoria Arney
Dunhill O'Brien
Sean Griffiths
Kathleen Herbert
Reynir Hutber
Eilish Kirby
Sandie Macrae
Jayne Parker
John Plowman
Chris Shaw-Hughes
John Stezeker
Tom Wolseley
Review of Demolishing the Former Office Building of Fujio Productions - What Have You Come Here For? in pen magazine
Review article of Demolishing the Former Office Building of Fujio Productions - What Have You Come Here For? in the online version of the highly regarded Japanese style magazine, pen.
www.pen-online.jp/article/011770.html
Demolishing the Former Office Building of Fujio Productions - What Have You Come Here For?
Group Exhibition at the Former Office Building of Fujio Productions in September - November 2022
2022/9/29 (fri) - 11/20 (sun)
Kaz will be exhibiting a site specific installation in an exhibition to celebrate the life and works of a pioneering Japanese manga artist, Fujio Akatsuka, in his former home/studio and office building. Participating artists include: Fujio Akatsuka, Keiichi Tanaami, Tomoo Gokita, Jun Miura, Yusuke Nakano/Paramodel, Rieko Akatsuka
Exhibition Open Thursday to Sunday and on Public Holidays
11am-7pm
Former Office building of Fujio Productions
1-3-15 Naka Ochiai
Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo
Japan
Documentation images of the exhibition: www.koredeiinoda.net/profile/kowasunoda-report.html
postTRUTH
Group Exhibition at postROOM, September - October 2022
2022/9/28 (thu) - 10/22 (sát)
Kaz will be exhibiting a new single channel video work in a group exhibition, postTRUTH at postROOM, London.
Thursday to Saturday 2-6pm
Opening reception: 2022/09/28, 6-8pm
Artist talk with Caroline Jane Harris and Kaz: 2022/10/22, 3-4.30pm
www.postroom.online
Divergence from Reality
An article by Masahi Ogura
Divergence form Reality, an article written by Masashi Ogura, a Japanese art critic, related to the recent solo exhibition, crossroad, appears in the Appril 2017 issue of Gekkan Gallery, a Japanese art magazine.
Click here for a pdf copy of the article
time capsules and conditions of now
Publication
The publication, with contributions from the participating artists/curators/writers, was part of the Vision Forum London project, led by Fatos Ustek, which worked with the theme of 'Time Capsules and Conditions of Now' and was published in January 2012.
Vision Forum London consisted of:
Soledad Garcia
Ole Hagen (artist/curator)
Kaz (artist)
Jean Mathee (artist/theoretician)
Vanda Playford (artist)
Lisa Skuret (artist)
Fatos Ustek (curator)
To find out more about the project, visit : www.visionforum-londonhouses.blogspot.com
4 now
Screening
George Barber - Kaz - Guy Sherwin - Tereza Stehlikova
2025/6/27 (fri)
4 now presents moving image works by four of the five artists who will exhibit in absolute now II, a group exhibition at Danielle Arnaud curated by Kaz that has been rescheduled from summer 2025 to March 2026.
Doors open at 6pm.
The screenings will start promptly at 6.30pm
Booking is essential: please contact danielle@daniellearnaud.com
Danielle Arnaud
123 Kennington Road
London SE11 6SF
absolute now II
Group Exhibition
Rieko Akatsuka - George Barber - Kaz - Guy Sherwin - Tereza Stehlikova
Curated by Kaz
Due to unforeseen circumstances the exhibition has been postponed ansd rescheduled for March 2026. Dates to be confirmed.
2025/6/28 (fri) - 2025/7/25 (fri)
Danielle Arnaud
123 Kennington Road
London SE11 6SF
‘Eternity does not exist anywhere but in changing time. Eternity is the absolute now.’
In his 1956 essay Time and Eternity, D.T. Suzuki—an influential Japanese Zen Buddhist scholar and philosopher—reflects on the nature of eternity, which he describes as fixed, and on changing time, stating that the two arise in opposition to each other as a result of binary thinking. He argues that change and eternity cannot exist independently and concludes as above.
For the 10th anniversary of absolute now—a group exhibition originally held in Tokyo—five of the participating artists return to revisit and further explore the seemingly paradoxical notion of the coexistence of both moving and fixed time.
In absolute now II, each artist presents a new installation using the moving image—a medium composed of a series of still images—to consider what ‘absolute now’ and being present mean within a socio-political landscape that has shifted significantly over the past decade. The exhibition also questions what it means to be present at a time when ‘truth’ has become an apparently malleable concept, and when escaping the here and now has become increasingly easier through social media and so-called technological ‘advances’.
The exhibition will include a curated events programme.
The Absolute Now
Contributor
Kaz's essay on the text Absolute Now by D.T. Suzuki, a renowned Buddhist scholar who spread Zen to the West, is now available to read in the September 2024 issue of the TT Journal.
The article begins with an English translation of this essay only available in Japanese, in which Suzuki contemplates the relationship between time and eternity, followed by Kaz's commentary and interpretation of ideas contained in the text.
Read it here: https://tangibleterritory.art/journal/issue-7-content/the-absolute-now/
How has Climate Change Affected Your Life?
Contributor
Kaz contributed to a project initiated by Peter Jaeger who is a poet, a literary critic, and a text-based artist.
Jaeger asked various people the question: 'How has climate change affected your life?' and compiled and published the responses as a PDF booklet of the same name in March 2024.
Download How has Climate Change Affected Your Life? here.
Return Journey
Solo exhibition at tadpole-lab, Tokyo
2023/12/8 (fri) - 17 (sun)
tadpole-lab
Omotesando
Tokyo
Exhibition open Friday to Sunday
1pm-7pm
Return Journey makes use of a video shot on train from London’s Heathrow Airport to the city centre on Kaz’s return to London, where he lives and works, from Japan, his country of birth. This new site specific video installation explores where we come from and questions what is ‘reality’ and ‘truth’.
For the work, Kaz uses a technique he has been working with in recent years where a video is projected through sheets of glass to create multiple moving images in the exhibition space with a single projector.
The ‘actual’ image is projected onto a wall as the beam go through glass, while multiple reflected ‘false’ images from each of the 10 glass sheets co-exist in the space and these, along with the constantly changing scenery seen from a moving train provide a space to contemplate the source of everything, including the self.
PostROOM presents Projection ROOM 3
Screening of artists' short films under 10 minutes
2023/1/03 (tue) & 04 (wed)
postROOM
London N1
United Kingdom
www.postroom.online
Kaz's video work 25 to 1 and Back will be shown as part of a screening along with the following artists' works:
Greta Alfaro
Victoria Arney
Dunhill O'Brien
Sean Griffiths
Kathleen Herbert
Reynir Hutber
Eilish Kirby
Sandie Macrae
Jayne Parker
John Plowman
Chris Shaw-Hughes
John Stezeker
Tom Wolseley
Review of Demolishing the Former Office Building of Fujio Productions - What Have You Come Here For? in pen magazine
Review article of Demolishing the Former Office Building of Fujio Productions - What Have You Come Here For? in the online version of the highly regarded Japanese style magazine, pen.
www.pen-online.jp/article/011770.html
Demolishing the Former Office Building of Fujio Productions - What Have You Come Here For?
Group Exhibition at the Former Office Building of Fujio Productions in September - November 2022
2022/9/29 (fri) - 11/20 (sun)
Kaz will be exhibiting a site specific installation in an exhibition to celebrate the life and works of a pioneering Japanese manga artist, Fujio Akatsuka, in his former home/studio and office building. Participating artists include: Fujio Akatsuka, Keiichi Tanaami, Tomoo Gokita, Jun Miura, Yusuke Nakano/Paramodel, Rieko Akatsuka
Exhibition Open Thursday to Sunday and on Public Holidays
11am-7pm
Former Office building of Fujio Productions
1-3-15 Naka Ochiai
Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo
Japan
Documentation images of the exhibition: www.koredeiinoda.net/profile/kowasunoda-report.html
postTRUTH
Group Exhibition at postROOM, September - October 2022
2022/9/28 (thu) - 10/22 (sát)
Kaz will be exhibiting a new single channel video work in a group exhibition, postTRUTH at postROOM, London.
Thursday to Saturday 2-6pm
Opening reception: 2022/09/28, 6-8pm
Artist talk with Caroline Jane Harris and Kaz: 2022/10/22, 3-4.30pm
www.postroom.online
Divergence from Reality
An article by Masahi Ogura
Divergence form Reality, an article written by Masashi Ogura, a Japanese art critic, related to the recent solo exhibition, crossroad, appears in the Appril 2017 issue of Gekkan Gallery, a Japanese art magazine.
Click here for a pdf copy of the article
time capsules and conditions of now
Publication
The publication, with contributions from the participating artists/curators/writers, was part of the Vision Forum London project, led by Fatos Ustek, which worked with the theme of 'Time Capsules and Conditions of Now' and was published in January 2012.
Vision Forum London consisted of:
Soledad Garcia
Ole Hagen (artist/curator)
Kaz (artist)
Jean Mathee (artist/theoretician)
Vanda Playford (artist)
Lisa Skuret (artist)
Fatos Ustek (curator)
To find out more about the project, visit : www.visionforum-londonhouses.blogspot.com