Artist and wordsmith, whose work engages with issues of access, from acknowledged physical needs to perceived symbolic exclusions. After being selected as one of DAO's New Voices in 2011, Gini's online presence has become an integral part of her arts practice

Lunch at Roppongi Hills

31 August 2013

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Day two takes me to Roppongi Hills for lunch at a Chinese restaurant and coming out of the elevator from the metro we discover that the entrance to the complex (just before the giant spider sculpture) is decorated and paved with red dots. The Mori Art Museum Gallery is hosting a tenth anniversary exhibition titled 'All You Need Is LOVE - from Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku'  The dots theme carries around the area, with activities for children and a larger than life figure of a...

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Traditional Modern Kabuki

30 August 2013

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I was greeted with a gift, tickets to Kabuki in the newly finished theatre. The performance will take place at the beginning of September, I am very pleased and so curious. The old Kabuki theatre had been pulled down and the redevelopment images of the site showed a massive skyscraper office block behind a small redbrick box, a modern and efficient, if disappointing, use of the space. I had been sad not to have been able to experience this traditional Japanese event in the appropriate...

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Independent Travel

29 August 2013

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The twelve hour flight has become familiar to my body, but the details vary each time.   Processing me at Heathrow in my own powered chair confused almost everybody. I revelled in the freedom and independence, whilst the assisted-travel  assistants consulted the rules and regulations. I successfully negotiated myself to the door of the aircraft on my own wheels and then watched as the powerless skeleton (without batteries and without the contoured cushions that make sitting for more...

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Tokyo Time

29 August 2013

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Tokyo time has come around again. For a week or so before I travel, the prospect dominates my life. The preparation consumes me. I pace myself to live with this division of attention, I am well practiced in the phenomenon, but this year is more fraught than usual. I think of my father talking about the see-saw between countries and cultures and the frustration of being constantly on the move yet going no-where. I recall my grandmother packing to move us to the summer house on the beach for the...

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With #beddingout in mind:

9 August 2013

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Liz Crow 'Bedding Out' is happening in Edinburgh, today and tomorrow, right now, so here #inactualfact, some excepts from 'On Borrowed Crutches'  poetry on wheels: I have been prescribed a normal life, life by the fifteen minute rule. Sitting, standing, lying down; repeat. So, now I need to ... go shopping. First to get me ready: crutches to the elbow, shoes and bags and Mmmh, fifteen mins standing. Me? No. And thats not even walking. Yes I need to take a chair....

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