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Project Index -
BENTEN 2024 2024
Na-Lucky 2023
DOBUROKGEOLLI 2022
いつのことだか思いだしてごらん 2022
Name Change 2022
Crying Museum 2022
SUN 2022
Hello There 2020
May, 2020, Tokyo 2020
A Drunk Pandemic 2019
Ningen restaurant 2018
Street 2017-
The other side 2017
Scrap & Build 2 2017
Scrap & Build 2016
Don't Follow The Wind initiated by Chim↑Pom 2015-
10th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION 2015
KANE-ZANMAI 2014-
PARADOX 2014
LOVE IS OVER 2014
MAD ELLIE 2013-
GARBAGE 2012-
PAVILION 2012-
REAL TIMES 2011
PUZZLE 2011,2014-
IMAGINE 2010
BLACK OF DEATH 2008,2013
HIROSHIMA 2008-
JAPANESE ART IS 10 YEARS BEHIND, AND ART OF THE WORLD IS 7 OR 8 YEARS BEHIND. 2008
Becoming Friends, Eating Each Other or Falling Down Together 2008
TPA 2007
THANK YOU CELEB PROJECT "I'M BOKAN" 2007
TOMODACHI 2007
ORE-ORE 2007
EROKITEL 2007-
SUPER RAT 2006-
BODY 2005-
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COYOTE open/close -
2014
An installation work based on the issue of Ellie’s denied entry into the U.S.A. A video of a Skype meeting conducted between Chim↑Pom and a gallery staff in New York discussing human traffickers - so-called “coyotes” - and also the preparation scenes of a possible performance with the animal were exhibited in the gallery. The installation makes reference to the pivotal performance Coyote: I Like America and America Likes Me (1974) by Joseph Beuys. Even though the work is staged in New York, the performance could only happen through the Internet because Ellie was unable to make the work herself, or is not allowed to do so. The time when Beuys did his performance with a real coyote, there is no artist or “coyote” to perform in the gallery at the present time.
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U.S.A. Visitor Center open/close -
2016
Many people live in Tijuana – a slum located along the border known as Libertad (meaning “liberty” in Spanish) in Mexico. Some of the self-built house that stands next to the border wall utilizes it as part of their own property. There, Chim↑Pom met a family that collaborated with them for this project. They built a tree house in front of the U.S.A., for people who are living there but are unable to enter the country.
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The Grounds open/close -
2017
The Grounds is a real hole dug on the Mexican side along the border. The hole directs towards the border wall that is inserted underground, and continues towards the earth that is shared between the U.S.A. and Mexico. This is a personal project for Ellie – unable to stand above ground level in the U.S.A., she crawled inside and left her footprints at the end of the hole, which is in fact American land. A mold of the footprint is made with plaster. The title of this work adapts a plural form since the ownership of the territory directly under the border wall cannot be specified.
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LIBERTAD open/close -
2017
This work was placed on the American side. There is a new and an old wall along the border, and in between that a severely controlled “no-man-zone” that is under the jurisdiction of the American government. In fact, this area has become part of the daily lives of the local Mexican residents. Chim↑Pom went to an area called “Colonia Libertad” on the Mexican side to form “Team LIBERTAD” with the local people. They installed a hole, a cross and a shovel all made with plastic there, against the original work of The Grounds that is installed on the Mexican side. It strongly suggests the multiple illegal tunnels that exist in that area. The cross that represents a grave is labeled “LIBERTAD” - the name of the place on the other side - bringing forward the idea that “liberty” is only an imaginative concept. This piece was created precisely to build a grave for the idea of liberty on American land.
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