A Blow to the Everyday

Curated by Yuko Hasegawa 

Artists : ChimPom, Kenichi Hagihara, Meiro Koizumi, Ayako Okubo, Yukihiro Taguchi, Shiro Takatani, Wah 

Organised by Osage Art Foundation Part of October Contemporary 2009 

A Blow to the Everyday signifies a call to transform and awaken everyday awareness by embroiling people in collective fantasies and horrors and other provocative documents. It also implies questioning, through the practice of contemporary Japanese artists, the kind of involvement the individual activities of artists can have with communities and society at large and the kinds of communication and imagination they can stimulate in late-finance capitalist Japan. 

A Blow to the Everyday is also the story of the survival of the artists concerned, as well an attempt to recall the reality of a different life through involvement with situations and people in the city. Their projects are nonsensical and absurd and may at times even appear to resemble the actions of the mythical figure Sisyphus. However, they also represent an earnest exploration of the possibilities of the only exchanges possible in the context of the actuality of the here and now.