Yuki Okumura: Translations and interpretations (English<=>Japanese)
(as of January 10, 2012)

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[English-Japanese translation]

2012
- Elena Filipovic: The Other Tradition
  to be printed in the next issue of EOS Artbooks catalogue.

- Lee Bul's interview (by Nicolaus Schafhausen)
  printed in catalogue of "Lee Bul: From Me, Belongs to You Only," Mori Art Museum, Tokyo


2011
- Wim Wenders: If Buildings Could Talk…
  narration of the film piece (for the exhibition "Architectural Environments for Tomorrow," Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo)

- Lars Muller: Herzog & de Meuron NATURAL HISTORY
  printed in "Book: TAKEO PAPER SHOW 2011"

- Jochen Volz: Art Space, City Space - the Chojamachi Model
  printed in the exhibition catalogue of "Aichi Triennale 2010"

- Koki Tanaka: Someone's junk is someone else's treasure
  subtitles for the video piece

- Koki Tanaka: A haircut by 9 hairdressers at once (second attempt)
  subtitles for the video piece

- Descriptions of exhibitions at MISAKO & ROSEN
  Kaoru Arima / Anders Edstrom & Shimon Minamikawa / Josh Brand / Kazuyuki Takezaki / Maya Hewitt


2010
- Doryun Chong: Naked Young Man in Nature
  printed in the exhibition catalogue of "Sensing Nature: Rethinking the Japanese Perception of Nature"

- Jun Yang: a short-story on forgetting and remembering
  subtitles for the video piece (for his solo show at Shugoarts, Tokyo)

- Mihnea Mircan: Whose Art History Are We Talking About?


2009
- Linda Dennis: Grasping the Notion of Touch
  Ph.D Thesis

- Massimo Vinneli: On Max Huber
  IDEA Magazine no. 335

- Zak Kyes and Ingo Niermann: The Choices
  IDEA Magazine no. 332


2008
- Ryan Gander: The Last Work; Somewhere Between
  dialogues of the video pieces printed in "DAIWA PRESS VIEWING ROOM vol.05"

- Rebecca May Marston: Magpie-ism and Obfuscation
- Brian Sholis: The Storyteller
- Nigel Prince: Ryan Gander is Interested in Art
  I translated all the English texts in his monograph "Heralded as the New Black" into Japanese,
  as reference material at his solo show at Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo.

- Gabriel Ritter: Tokyo Nonsense
  Exhibition statement printed in "Bijutsu Techo" (April 2008)

- Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau: Interactive Plant Growing
- Michael Prime: Fungi and Bioelectronics
  both printed in catalogue of "Silent Dialogue," Intercommunication Center, Tokyo

2007
- Ryan Gander: Ghostwriter Subtext (Towards A Significantly More Plausible Interrobang)
  dialogue of the video piece (for his solo show at Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo

- Gabriel Ritter: True Colors
  printed in "Monument For Nothing" by Makoto Aida


2005
- Matthew Barney: Cremaster Synopsis
  printed in "Studio Voice" magazine





[Japanese-English translation]
Co-translated by Linda Dennis, unless otherwise indicated


2012
- Takashi Ishizaki: The Mindset of Meguro Addresses (excerpts)
- Koki Tanaka: Dividing making and showing, and then fusing them together again
  both printed in the catalogue of "Meguro Addresses," Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo

- Hiroyuki Hattori: Body Plunging - Comical Behaviors to Puncture Society (on the work of Yoshinori Niwa)
- Hiroyuki Hattori: Found Composition - Sculpting Based on Instantaneous Observation (on the work of Motohiro Tomii)
  both printed in the catalogue of "Re-Modernologio phase2: Observation method and notation," Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori

- Kuribara Morimoto: Strange Right Hand
  subtitles for the video piece


2011
- Yoshihide Otomo: Just a Furoshiki, yet full of potential (proofread by Leigh Robb)
- Tohru Nakazaki: O-Furoshiki as a Prologue (proofread by Peter Bellars)
  both printed in brochure of "FUKIUSHIMA! O-FUROSHIKI" project

- Tomoko Yabumae: What I See and What You See Are Different - On the Painting of Teppei Soutome
  printed in Teppei Soutome: Cat and Saturn catalogue

- Tatsuo Majima: Hotel Koala
- Takayuki Toshima: Variations Atamayama
  both printed in the brochure of "blanclass +night"

- Michiko Tsuda: Meeting Japanese"

- Cozue Takagi: Suzu
  printed in her photobook

- Texts on Buku Akiyama by Tohru Horiguchi, Koichi Munakata, Koki Tanaka, Lei Yamabe, and Tami Yanagisawa
  to be printed Akiyama's artist book

- Texts on Nadegata Instant Party by Mizuki Takahashi and Hiroyuki Hattori
  printed in the artist book "24 Our Television"


2010
- Takashi Serizawa: The Art Gates were finally closed, but only to reopen someday…
  printed in "Mixed Bathing World 2010"

- Mariko Tomomasa: Having a meal with Father
  subtitles for the video piece


2008
- Kiyoshi Kusumi: For the Unearthly. The Earthly,
- Lyota Yagi's texts on his works
  both printed in the booklet of the DVD "Lyota Yagi: Time Cosmique」" (published by Mujin-to Production)

- Takayuki Hayashi: Leaping Hands, Leaping Eyes
  printed in the monograph of Iwao Ikeda

- Nobuya Hitsuda: Scenes Passed by
  printed in his monograph

- Minoru Shiizu: Digital Color Full Blast - Taiji Matsue's "nest"


2007
- Makoto Aida's texts on his works
  printed in his monograph "Monument For Nothing"

- Yoshiaki Tono: Elaine Sturtevant (proofread by Jeffrey Ian Rosen)

- All the texts printed in the exhibition catalogue of in*tension project (proofread by Tom Bidwell)

- Daisuke Awata: A View No One Has Ever Seen
  printed in catalogue of the exhibition by Tadasuke Iwanaga, Shin Soo-Hyeok, Kazuna Taguchi, Naho Yokoya

2006
- Hiromasa Yagi: Capturing the Forest in a Tree (on work of Yuichi Enomoto)


2005
- Texts by Yukio Fujimoto, Taro Igarashi, Shin Kurosawa, and Noi Sawaragi
  printed in Kenji Yaonobe's artist book "City of Children Project Document"

- Hajime Mizutani: 10 meters to… (co-translated by Suzanne Reiser)





[English-Japanese Interpretation]

2012
- Gabriel Ritter: LA/Tokyo Story: An Exhibition History
  lecture at Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo

2011
- Russel Craig: The Ocean, Water and Other Things
  lectures at Tokyo University of the Art, Tokhyo and Joshibi University of Art and Design, Kanagawa
- Jo D'Hage: My Art Practice - An Overview
  lectures at Tokyo University of the Art, Tokhyo and Joshibi University of Art and Design, Kanagawa

2010
- Lotte Lyon
  artist talk at Aoyama | Meguro (for her solo show "1:2")

2009
- Joanna Littlejohns
  lecture at Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo

2008
- Neil Malone
  lecture at Printmaking Dept., Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo

- Arryn Snowball: Very little almost nothing
  lecture at Oil Painting Dept., Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo

2006
- Pat Hoffie
  lecture at Oil Painting Dept., Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo