LUCKY VS UNLUCKY: Maywa Denki is an art unit disguised as a small electrical company: blue work uniforms, product catalogues, nonsense machines. Uke-TEL is a hanging cage with a shallow pond, goldfish, and a ceiling of steel needles. On the telephone time signal, needles fall. A fish with bad timing gets unlucky.
I went to graduate school with Masamichi Tosa at Tsukuba University's Institute of Art and Design. For the life of me I couldn't understand what he did, because my thinking then was too much the engineer's. It was people like Tosa who nudged me to flex my mind in new dimensions during that formative period. I only ever saw Uke-TEL in photographs; I'm glad to finally see it run, and to catch the poetry Tosa-san so often reaches. —JM
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