Demeter – Tokachi International Contemporary Art Exhibition
Exhibition Catalogue
(Demeter – Tokachi International Contemporary Art Exhibition Executive Committee)

The catalogue contains detailed information, including many color photographs and explanatory notes, on all works that were featured in the “Demeter” exhibition in the summer of 2002. Also included are commentaries by the event’s general director and director of P3, Takashi Serizawa, as well as by art critic Makoto Murata and anthropologist Ryutaro Imafuku, and a transcript of a conversation between Yoko Ono and ecologist Yugo Ono.
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Demeter – Tokachi International Contemporary Art Exhibition
Official guidebook
(Demeter – Tokachi International Contemporary Art Exhibition Executive Committee)

Compiled in collaboration with P3, this is a comprehensive and compelling guide to the “Demeter” exhibition. Next to basic information on the exhibition, the participating artists and their works, it also contains a documentary illustrating the process from the planning stage up to the event, and written contributions from art critic Makoto Murata, anthropologist Ryutaro Imafuku, and P3 director Takashi Serizawa. 
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P3 Sound Installation Series #4
John Cage: Writing Through the Essay – On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Exhibition Catalogue

John Cage left behind an extensive body of work. In 1993, P3 unveiled a new version of an installation made of 18 mesostics, for which Cage had used Henry David Thoreau’s essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience as a source, and Erik Satie’s Messe des Pauvres as a central thread. The catalogue contains an introduction by the artist and the 18 mesostics, along with Japanese translations of passages from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.
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P3 Sound Installation Series #3
Christina Kubisch: True and False
Exhibition Catalogue

Christina Kubisch is a leading sound artist from Germany. She utilizes time to make visible things invisible, and space to render the audible inaudible. True and False was an installation that let the visitor experience the passing of time as visualized through light, and the venue as a space filled with sound. One can see when there is less light, and likewise, one can hear everything when there is complete silence.  
For this catalogue, notes by the artist, musical scores and photos of an exhibition at P3 in 1993, were printed onto a total of 32 cards, which are contained here in addition to photos of Kubisch’s previous works.
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P3 Sound Installation Series #2
Takehisa Kosugi: Four Devices
Exhibition Catalogue

Kosugi has been exploring/expressing relationships between things, bodies and spaces, through inter-media based improvised performances since the early 1960s. His work focuses on the possibilities of media that become effective through the interference of invisible sources, such as electromagnetic waves or wind, in certain systems, and the possibilities of encounters generated through various “interferences” by visible/audible media. Kosugi has been utilizing these possibilities of inter-media to illustrate the relationships between time and space.
For this catalogue, Kosugi’s exhibition at P3 in 1991 was recomposed by printing photographs of the exhibition, along with the artist’s notes, onto onto 28 cards.


P3 Sound Installation Series #1
Rolf Julius: wind
Exhibition Catalogue

Based in Berlin, the late Rolf Julius was active as a composer and performer of live electronic music, and also as a visual artist. In addition to photos of his works, this catalogue contains 28 cards with printed photographs of an exhibition at P3 in 1992, and notes and sketches by the artist himself.
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Cai Guo Qiang: Primeval Fireball
Exhibition Catalogue

Cai Guo Qiang is internationally reknowned for his large-scale projects that involve gunpowder explosions, using the earth itself as a canvas. Serving as a stage for an abundant display of his talents, the “Primeval Fireball” exhibition reviolved around a radial installation of drawings on folding screens made using gunpowder and ink. Each of these works represented a plan for a project to be realized in the future, which is why the exhibition was subtitled “The project for projects.”
Next to the main work, displays at the exhibition included various project plans, many of which – such as the “Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 meters” – have been realized to date. In addition to these, the catalogue contains various other works up to 1991.
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Brian Boigon: Speed Reading Tokyo
Exhibition Catalogue

Brian Boigon is an artist and design theorist based in Toronto. This catalogue in the form of a “photocollage novel” that speed reads the hypercity Tokyo in a mixture of theory and fiction, was published concurrently with the opening of Boigon’s exhibition at P3 in 1990.
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Tatsumi Yoshino: Water Dog
Exhibition Catalogue

Yoshino’s dogs turn and twist in all directions. The smallest ones measure less than a meter, the biggest ones almost four. Some of them bark, others stand straight with a calm and merciful facial expression. The catalogue of the solo show “Water Dog” in 1989 contains drawings made for the installation, photos of works, etc.
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Synergetic Circus -Buckminster Fuller's Sea of Intuition
Exhibition Catalogue

This is the catalogue for the Buckminster Fuller exhibition that was P3 art and environment's (initially P3 alternative museum) first exhibition in 1989. It aimed to recreate the intuition, philosophy, activities and inventions of the modern-day Leonardo da Vinci within the context of Japan in 1989. The exhibition was authorized by and received the support of the Buckminster Fuller Institute in Los Angeles.
The catalogue put a spotlight along the various angles of Fuller's intuition through numerous photographs and diagrams, detailed chronographs, and text from specialists in many of Fuller's disciplines. There was an interview with Fuller's close friend John Cage.
The authors who wrote for the catalogue include Takashi Serizawa, P3 director and translator of Fuller's works, including his best-known book Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth; Jaime Snyder, Fuller's grandson and former director of BFI; J. Baldwin, who worked closely with Fuller over a 30-year period; Sumet Jumsai, architect and author of Naga: Cultural Origins in Siam and the West Pacific and a close friend of Fuller, who was particularly interested in Southeast Asia.
Each of the authors wrote about Fuller's thought and action in relation to the historical and environmental backgrounds to comprehensively analyze Fuller's creative process.
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