*Candy Factory @ Yokohama Triennial 2001

*Candy Factory participated in the Yokohama Triennial 2001 with 2 exhibition spaces. 

Space 1 with a pavilion sculpture installation made of a fluorescent yellow gallows. The design is taken from the 40's Hollywood screwball comedy film "His Girl Friday" with tatami floor and fitness equipment, wheelchairs to invite the audience to play.
Space 1 Pavilion sculpture : Gallows, fitness equipments, wheel chairs
Takuji Kogo, Tetsu Takagi, Kazunari Horiguchi

Space 2 as a gallery space for collaborations with 3 computer projections with 3 programmes. 

1.Sitcom /Multi projections
Sit.com by Takuji Kogo, the project to collect online harassment messages to be forwarded to the Yokohama Triennial audience, inserting artists' video programme, including G.H. Hovagimyan, Sandra Vivas' performance video, John Miller's analytical map for Personal Ads in NY, Federico Baronello's documentary video for a psychiatric sanatorium in Sicily.
Directed by Takuji Kogo
In collaboration with : Mike Bode ( Nunotani Bldg.), Federico Baronello, John Miller, G.H Hovagimiyan, Sandra Vivas, Chrysanne Stathocos

2.NUNOTANI BLDG. 
布谷ビル 2001~ 2004
Takuji Kogo and Mike Bode

NUNOTANI BLDG. built in 1991 at EDOGAWA TOKYO, Architect: Peter Eisenman and Zenidaka corporation. Built as the main office building of the design company NUNOTANI corporation's Tokyo branch. However the building's function soon turned into a warehouse. The NUNOTANI corporation went bankrupt in 2000. The administration of property Osaka district court has had the building and the site up for sale since 2000. A company " Life support" finally bought the dilapidated building at an auction in 2003 converted the building into the old-age peoples home. 

Exhibition : Yokohama Triennial 2001
Korean web art festival Seoul 2001
Publication : Lost In Space / AIAV 2002

3. Take Me To the Art Festival, Takuji Kogo and Gaku Tsutaya, created a female account on a dating site with the message "Take Me To the Yokohama Triennial" and installed all the messages with text and their own icons as animations.