TEXT / WRITING

継続的思索の記録 / Ongoing Critical Writings

この「庭観察日記」は、展示「生成の庭（2025）」において、綴られた思考の記録です。 This "Garden Observation Diary" is a record of reflections composed during the exhibition Gardens of Becoming (2025).
庭観察日記 #1 (12/4-7) ：『悪』を待つ馬力、そして庭師へと変容する作家
庭観察日記 #2 (12/11-15)：ハックされる攻略法と、摩擦という名のノイズ
庭観察日記 #3 (12/18-21)：全てが収束する点は、日常へ還る種
Garden Observation Diary #1 (Dec 4-7): Horsepower: Anticipating "Bad," and the Artist’s Transformation into the Gardener
Garden Observation Diary #2 (Dec 11-14): The Horsepower That Welcomes 'Bad,' and the Artist's Transformation into the Gardener
Garden Observation Diary #3 coming soon!


エッセイとレビュー / Critical Essays and Reviews on the Work

2024
#Spread – Language is a Virus from Outer Space
(Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan, 2024)

1. Exhibition Catalogue Essays
“An Entanglement of Information and Human Arising from a Collage of Flawlessly Composed Ideas”
Author:  Prof. Akihiro Kubota (Tama Art University)

“Noriko Okaku: Collaging the Known and Unknown”
Author:  Chieko Nakagawa, Curator (Towada Art Center, 2024)

“Language, Thought, and Information: Some Virological Observations and Complications”
Author: Prof. Yuki Furuse, M.D., Ph.D. (Division of Infection and Microbiology, The University of Tokyo)

2. Additional Review
“Noriko Okaku: #Spread”
Author: Chie Sumiyoshi, Art Writer (RealTokyo)
[Link: Read the review on RealTokyo/レビューを読む]

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