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		<title>Art fiction that keeps our thinking adept</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the connection between Kampala in Uganda, Fukushima in Japan and New Orleans in America? Tsuyoshi Ozawa links these seemingly disparate places in his ongoing series &#8220;Vegetable Weapons&#8221;. The shape of a gun is formed out of local vegetables and photographed, before it&#8217;s taken apart and the same vegetables become the ingredients for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Replaying people&#8217;s actions with a twist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much of Belgian artist Francis Alÿs' work and life have been determined by chance. ]]></description>
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		<title>Unearthing the Seto Inland Sea&#8217;s social landscapes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Setouchi Triennale]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever traveling directly from one island in the Seto Inland Sea to another, I sense threads holding each one to the other. Perhaps this is a vestige of the trade routes that traversed the 700-plus islands in this scenic region between Hiroshima and Osaka. As sea trade waned in postwar Japan, these threads have become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tadasu Takamine&#8217;s not so &#8216;Cool Japan&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May 2011, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry promoted the idea of &#8220;Cool Japan,&#8221; presenting Japanese culture as a product amid the confusing circumstances after the Great East Japan Earthquake. As Japan continues to suffer a declining population and weak economy, it was a government attempt to create a branding strategy for recovery. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the connections are as crucial as the art</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Jack</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid the hurry of daily life it is easy to forget what lies below our feet. To most of us, it may appear to be just cement or dirt, but to artist Kenji Yamada there are profound mysteries contained on the ground, in things as simple as our own footprints in the snow. His installation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy multiplies creative potential at Trans Arts Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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