documentation stills of "club ikebukuro - the event"
andy palaski and marc burgess
1999












club ikebukuro - the event and club ikebukuro - the exhibition
ikebukuro station west exit park and tokyo electric power company gallery
tokyo, japan
june 1999

summertime, what would you rather do - go to a bar, stay home watching tv, or go to a park and hang out and paint?

collaborative 24-hour painting event in a public park in downtown tokyo (and subsequent exhibition nearby). the following people showed up and made art: harumi abe, marc burgess, monty dipietro (who participated and later wrote this kind piece printed by the asahi evening news), brian heagney, jo chu jo, hiroyuki kato, shohei kato, akira koyama, gregg ladd, timothy b. layden, machi, mami, chinatsu miyake, naomi nishimura, andrew palaski, michael rhys, ryota, erik sanner, machiko tagami, haruko yamamoto, mihoko yasui, kayoko yokoyama.

here is the flyer i asked people to share with each other, and left stacks of at a few hangouts i was familiar with: