Under the name ‘I Love The Modern World’, Stanley Donwood will exhibit new work in Japan. Work from the Radiohead artist can be seen at Tokyo Gallery (Ginza, Tokyo) from April 2 – 26, 2008

The theme for the exhibit seems to be the asthma inhalers, as one features on the exhibition posters (and previously in Radiohead artwork). Read Stanley’s blog (in Japanese and English). Here’s an excerpt:

I took my bags of used asthma inhalers to the photographer’s studio the other day. I don’t know how many I had; I’d been collecting them for a few years. The criteria for my collection were that the inhalers had to have been prescribed to me and the contents inhaled by me until they were empty. These inhalers, made of plastic and metal, would have been thrown away if I hadn’t kept them. They would have ended up in landfill sites, buried or incinerated with all the other household trash. And household trash, rubbish, landfill, leaking toxic pollution; all of these things, among many others, had been plaguing my thoughts for a while now, but I don’t think that’s really why I kept the inhalers. These inhalers were, whilst they were full, half-full, or nearly empty, very important to me. I carried each one with me in my pocket, and at night I would remove it and place it by my bedside. I worried greatly that if I forgot or lost my inhaler I would die from lack of air. A terrible way to go. So when they were empty, I kept them. Like souvenirs or mementos, small totems of another period of life lived, another small survival.

[thx Sato]

Radiohead news on this day..

• Jonny Greenwood: Radiohead making music, rehearsing, working out what to do – 2011
• Jonny Greenwood to be interviewed on BBC 6 Music tomorrow – 2011
• Radiohead featured in Mexican MAD Magazine – 2009
• The Fog Of War – 2007
• Thom Yorke: How to appear completely… – 2007
• Small Dead Air Space update – 2006
• New Radiohead.com online – 2004
• Radiohead play UK clubs in May – 2003