Artist: Yukinori Yanagi

1.The appearance of his work seems to allude to time and process, how is it addressed?
2. What is the importance of large social structures?
3. Does he know Mathew Barney and what is their relationship like?

1. Time is referenced in the actual making of the pieces and also the content. The process of the making of the work is foregrounded to become an integral part of the content. In fact, the true content of the piece is found in the making but he also validates the pieces as art by having a tangible finished product; even if it is temporal. Yanagi's work ends up being very poetic with every aspect of the works being seen as metaphors.
2. Yanagi focuses on hierarchical structures. With one relationship merely being part of a larger grand network built of single relationships. His work deals with the concept of simultaneous existence of the individual identity and social group identity. Simple means are used to explore and understand this hierarchy in which we all are part of.
3. According to the book Mathew Barney graduated from undergrad at Yale in 1989. Yukinori Yanagi started attending Yale in 1988 and graduated in 1990 with a masters in sculpture. It is likely that there is a relationship but there is no further knowledge of this in the book.

THREE MORE:
1. What other manifestations does Yukinori Yanagi's work take, only two pieces are mentioned?
2. Could there be means as efficient in displaying this content without an aspect of performance?
3. Is there more to be learned from this sort of performance based art?