Yukihiro Taguchi: not recommended for children

[imomus]

Remember when your parents told you not to play with polythene bags when you were a kid? It was good advice, but it was also a real killjoy. Well, now, thanks to the artwork of Berlin-based Japanese artist Yukihiro Taguchi (born in Osaka in 1980), you can play with polythene. You can use it to highlight certain bits of a room, or to make a corridor that leads from the inside of a building to the outside, to keep dry in the bath, to make people relate differently to each other, or to collect carbon dioxide from children. You can inflate it using an ordinary electric fan, or by riding a bicycle, or by pumping a handpump. It's amazing, really, what you can do with polythene bubbles.

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More Yukihiro Taguchi videos (62 of them) here. Not recommended for children.

Comments

[mcgazz.livejournal.com]

You look like Ivor Cutler in that userpic. This is a Good Thing.

Not recommended for the planet either

[(Anonymous)]

...but then again what is nowadays...Harrington Jackets?..

because choking is fun!

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

It reminds me of that Roy Orbison in clingfilm site, only with Momus in plastic.

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

Also of the shrinkwrapped Japanese girls I saw on fleshbot a while ago.

I totally don´t want to write mad kink porn about it possibly involving John Cale. No. Not me.

[violet-hemlock.livejournal.com]

I remember some girl in Japan, about 6 years ago making all kinds of sculture out of plastic bags. Like teddy bears and stuff. Can't remember her name...in some peridoical buried in a closet I am sure...

but, I think the stairs and the that 'bag of silence' thing at the top are my favorites.

Momus sighting, unrelated to plastic wrap

[sofahead.livejournal.com]

I titillated myself with thoughts that I might run into you (or Peaches) in Berlin today. I did, sort of (not Peaches). Did you know about this storefront on Torstrasse?

Re: Momus sighting, unrelated to plastic wrap

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Here's Aya's view of the same scene, back in January 2004. Bizarre that it ended up on the Torstrasse!

unrelated to plastic wrap

[pay-option07.livejournal.com]

Is this a masturbating monkey?
Why aren't there any shots from inside the bags or is the intention to leave the viewer outside.
Have a great Oktoberfest! Preparations for it appeared on the local news channel and it must be that dreaded info-tainment again. Maybe Yama Sama san can do something with Lederhosen.

[lilchiva.livejournal.com]

Why is that art?

play play play

[(Anonymous)]

"without love you have nothing at all"

maf

play play play

[(Anonymous)]

"without love you have nothing at all" Bongo Herman

maf

[electricwitch.livejournal.com]

because I get off on it.

[lilchiva.livejournal.com]

Actually, that only makes it more like pornography.

I have worked with that material for years and what's shown here is really on the low end of what's possible. But if it's what turns you on, then you come to Dallas. Every nearly year we have Disturbathon and we make houses out of the stuff, as well as all the other kinda lame things shown here.There's also latex sealing and body art.

[microworlds.livejournal.com]

I've always had a fascination with small, enclosed spaces. Using inflated polythene bags to do those things seemed odd at first, but I realized "hmmm that sounds fun!" Maybe I'll try it one of these days. You know, when my mom isn't around.

By the way, do you still use your inflatable dome?

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

That dome would make a great greenhouse.

[microworlds.livejournal.com]

Indeed! But how would you crawl inside and write your latest blog entry without getting dirty?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

The dome is in the cellar at the moment -- there isn't enough space in my current flat.