KOKKURISAN TATTOO, 2008, Courtesy of the artist, ANOMALY and MUJIN-TO Production
KOKKURISAN TATTOO, 2008, Courtesy of the artist, ANOMALY and MUJIN-TO Production
Piss Building, 2018
(Photo: Kenji Morita, Courtesy of the artist and ANOMALY)
Piss Building, 2018
(Photo: Kenji Morita, Courtesy of the artist and ANOMALY)
Kurukuru Party, 2009 (Photo: Yoshimitsu Umekawa)
Kurukuru Party, 2009 (Photo: Yoshimitsu Umekawa)
Kurukuru Party, 2009
Kurukuru Party, 2009
Installation view :
Installation view : "Good to be human" Yamamoto Gendai, 2009 (Photo: Keizo Kioku, Courtesy of YAMAMOTO GENDAI)
Making of the ‘Sokushinbutsu (Living body Buddha)’ (Photo: Yoshimitsu Umekawa, Courtesy of the artist and ANOMALY)
Making of the ‘Sokushinbutsu (Living body Buddha)’ (Photo: Yoshimitsu Umekawa, Courtesy of the artist and ANOMALY)
ERIGERO, 2005 (Courtesy of the artist, ANOMALY and MUJIN-TO Production)
ERIGERO, 2005 (Courtesy of the artist, ANOMALY and MUJIN-TO Production)
Happy Summer 2005, 2005 (Courtesy of the artist)
Happy Summer 2005, 2005 (Courtesy of the artist)
BODY (2009)

Given without any special skill to use it, body is the principle medium of expression for Chim↑Pom, whose members except Ellie started art without any formal training, as one of the most basic tools along with execution and demonstration on the street. While Chim↑Pom has had more exposure in the exhibition space, this stance has never changed ever since the very beginning when Chim↑Pom jumped out with only a video camera and own bodies.

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KOKKURISAN TATTOO, 2008
video (3 min. 43 sec.), lambda print, 84.1×59.4cm
Five members perform a necromantic act of kokkurisan [Japanese table-turning] with a single needle on the back of Mizuno. This work serves as an example of automatic tattooing.

Piss Building, 2018
Ellie’s urine, cement

Kurukuru Party, 2009
This installation work restaged the mess of a home party, that was actually held, in the gallery space with videos and food replicas.

Making of the ‘Sokushinbutsu (Living body Buddha)’ , 2009
Nowadays the so-called “Japanese mummy,” or sokushinbutsu [a man who makes himself into a mummy of his own free will] is treated not only as a corpse but also as a Buddhist sculpture and a tourist attraction. This work attempts to make sokushinbutsu, without going through the proper methods and procedures. Sitting in front of the installation of Kurukuru Party, where a party wreckage was displayed using food samples, Inaoka used his body to create a sculpture of his own body in a state close to fasting.

Pika Pika Laser, 2005
video (2 min. 42 sec.)

ERIGERO, 2005
video (5 min. 59 sec.)
Featuring Ellie excitedly drinking pink liquid and vomiting it to accompaniment of “ikki” [Go now!] yells by male members, this video work symbolizes a variety of themes like feminism, the fad of slimming dieting, meaning of pink as an attribute of “kawaii” Japanese gal [girl] culture. Characterized with a hedonistic trance-like feeling swallowing up the scene along with Ellie’s escalating excitement, this work unexpectedly became a monumental work for Chim↑Pom with concepts like “groove” or “party” descending to Chim↑Pom as realistic contemporary themes.

Happy Summer 2005, 2005
video (8 min. 5 sec.)