Dandelion in Foot
2009
Colored pencil on paper

 

 

Dandelion in Right Foot
March 16, 2009
Performance dedicated to Kanji Itoi a.k.a. Dadakan.
Sendai Street Affair ʺKorosu‐naʺ
Sendai, Japan

Planting seeds of dandelion in right foot.
This performance is dedicated to Kanji Itoi a.k.a. Dadakan (left in photo below), who is a legendary Japanese in the 1960s to the 70s, one of the most radical artist in Japanese Neo‐Dada, happening and performance art. The performance is based on his anecdote. Once he was younger, he fired given money and sent it to his friend as a mailing art, while his life was poor eating dandelions growing in his garden. The place is the same as Dadakan’s “Sendai Street Affair” performed in 1970.

photo: Koichi Koike

photo: Kunihiko Hatanaka

足にタンポポ　Dandelion in Foot
2009
紙に色鉛筆

 

 

右足にタンンポポ　Dandelion in Right Foot
2009年3月16日
ダダカンこと糸井貫二に捧げるパフォーマンス
仙台路上儀「殺す菜」
仙台

タンポポの種子を右足に植える。
ダダカンこと糸井貫二氏（写真左）に捧げるパフォーマンス。写真は、開口部を縫合しているところ。ダダカンが、もらったお金を燃やしメールアートとして友人に送り、自分は庭に生えているタンポポを食べて貧しい生活をしてい た、という逸話に因む。ダダカンが1970年に行った「仙台路上儀」と同じ場所で行われた。

photo: Koichi Koike

photo: Kunihiko Hatanaka