Taiyo Kimura

Kimura’s DVD "Typical Japanese English" (2005) is a riveting series of vignettes intercut with
found footage of a televised match of the Japanese game of Go. The poignant images (such
as the above-referenced cat-in-mouth) include food being tossed into a washing machine
(and set to "wash cycle"); the artist’s mouth in close-up in the guise of a slot machine
spitting out a jackpot’s worth of quarters (and spittle); and perhaps the most salient of the
images, another close-up on Kimura’s mouth, now stuffed with a raw fish…