2022/12/30

“Don’t Touch My Building!”—Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Remembers Collaborating with Architecture Icon Arata Isozaki

Mexican-Canadian media artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer commemorates the passing of Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, a post-modern giant who blended East and the West in his designs, with an anecdote. “I had the honour of meeting him twenty years ago when I staged Amodal Suspension (2003) to open YCAM in Yamaguchi,” writes Lozano-Hemmer. “He told me I could make any intervention I wanted except touch his building, so I made a switchboard of messages relayed by searchlights over it.”

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