About the Architectural Body Research Foundation
Since 1963, artists-architects-poets Arakawa and Madeline Gins have worked in collaboration to produce visionary, boundary-defying art and architecture. Their seminal work, The Mechanism of Meaning, has been exhibited widely throughout the world. In 1987, as a means of financing the design and construction of works of procedural architecture that draw on The Mechanism of Meaning, extending its theoretical implications into the environment, Arakawa and Gins founded the Architectural Body Research Foundation. The Foundation actively collaborates with leading practitioners in a wide-range of disciplines including, but not limited to, experimental biology, neuroscience, quantum physics, experimental phenomenology, and medicine. Architectural projects have included residences (Reversible Destiny Houses, Bioscleave House, Shidami Resource Recycling Model House), parks (Site of Reversible Destiny-Yoro) and plans for housing complexes and neighborhoods (Isle of Reversible Destiny-Venice and Isle of Reversible Destiny-Fukuoka, Sensorium City, Tokyo).
ARAKAWA
MADELINE GINS
ARAKAWA
Biography
1987Founded Architectural Body Research Foundation (Formerly Containers of Mind Foundation) with Madeline Gins
1963 Began collaborating with Madeline Gins on the research project The Mechanism of Meaning
1961 Arrived in New York where he now resides
1936 Born in Japan
Awards
2003Shiju Housho – Purple Imperial Award
2003 Nihon Gendai Geijutsu Shinko Sho – Award for innovation in Japanese contemporary art from Japan Arts Foundation
1998The highest award in the Rainbow Town Urban Design Competition goes to the Arakawa/Gins Chinju no Mori/Sensorium City (Tokyo Bay)
1988-89 Belgian Critics' Prize
1997College Art Association’s Artist Award for Exhibition of the Year/Distinguished Body of Work, Presentation or Performance Award
1987-88 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1986 Awarded by the French Government: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
Conferences
2005“Arakawa and Gins: Architecture and Philosophy,” University of Paris X-Nanterre
2008“Reversible Destiny - Declaration of the Right Not to Die: Second International Arakawa +Gins Architecture + Philosophy Conference/Congress," University of Pennsylvania, Slought Foundation
Installations
1994Inauguration of an Arakawa room at the Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum,
Dusseldorf
Selected One-Man Exhibitions
1998 NTT Intercommunication Center: The City as the Art Form of the Next Millenium
1997 Guggenheim Museum Soho: Reversible Destiny
1995Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
1994Hara Museum of Comtemporary Art, Tokyo
1993Busche Galerie, Berlin
1992 National Museum of Kyoto
1991 National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1990 Joseloff Gallery, Hartford
DAAD Gallery, Berlin
Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
Busche Galerie, Koln
1989 Touko Museum, Tokyo
1988 Seibu Museum, Karuizawa
Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
Isy Brachot, Brussels
1987 Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
Von Straaten Gallery, Chicago
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Seibu Museum, Tokyo
Satani Gallery, Tokyo
1986 Gallery Blu, Milan
Satani Gallery, Tokyo
1985 Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
Arnold Herstand Gallery, New York
1984 Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1983 Matrix Gallery, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
Kitakyushu Museum, Kyushu, Japan
1982 Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Galerie Maeght, Paris
1981 Lenbachhaus, Munich
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago
1980 John Stoller & Co., Minneapolis
Luria Gallery, Palm Beach
Galerie Maeght, Zurich
Gallery Takagi, Nagoya
1979 The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
Seibu Museum, Tokyo
The National Museum, Osaka
Stadtische Kunstsammlungen, Ludwigshafen
1978 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Gallery Takagi, Nagoya
1977 Stadtsiche Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
Galerie Maeght, Paris
Galerie Art in Progress, Dusseldorf
1976 Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
Multiples, New York
Galleria 42, Barcelona
Art in Progress, Munich
1975 Art in Progress Gallery, Dusseldorf
Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Henie Onstad Museum, Oslo
Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh
1974 Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
Galleria L'Uomo e L'Arte, Milano and Bergamo
Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
Art in Progress Gallery, Munich
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Prints)
1973 Daytons Gallery 12, Minneapolis
Margot Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1972 Traveling Exhibition: The Mechanism of Meaning
Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Stadtische im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Art in Progress, Zurich
Galleria Bertesca, Genoa
Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
1971 Harcus-Krakow Gallery, Boston
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Galeria Schwarz, Milan
Angela Flowers Gallery, London
ROSC Show, Dublin
Whitney Museum of American Art (Film: For Example)
1970 Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Hannover Kunstverein, Hannover
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Venice Biennale
1969 Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Dwan Gallery, New York
Galleria Schwarz, Milan
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (film: Why Not)
1968 Dwan Gallery, New York
Galerie Lauter, Mannheim
1967 Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
Galleria Schwarz, Milan
Dwan Gallery, New York and Los Angeles
1966 Wuttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Dwan Gallery, New York and Los Angeles
Wide White Space, Antwerp
Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf
Stadelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Minami Gallery, Tokyo
1965 Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf
Minami Gallery, Tokyo
Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan
1964 Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
1963 Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf
1960 Mudo Gallery, Tokyo
Constructions
2000-08Bioscleave House, East Hampton, Long Island (Completion Date: April 2008)
2002-05Reversible Destiny Lofts – Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan.
2001-05External Genome Housing Project, Shidami, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. (In association with Takenaka Corporation) (Completion Date, 2005)
1996 Reversible Destiny Office, Yoro, Gifu Prefecture
1994 Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro, Gifu Prefecture [a seven acre site in central Japan]
1992Ubiquitous Site * Nagi's Ryoanji *, Architectural Body, [Permanent Installation],
Nagi MOCA, Nagi
1992Ubiquitous Site * Nagi's Ryoanji * Heart, [Permanent Installation],
Nagi MOCA, Nagi
Bibliography
Books:
Making Dying Illegal, Architecture Against Death: Original to the 21st Century. (in collaboration with Madeline Gins). New York: Roof Books. (November, 2006)
Le Corps Architectural (in collaboration with Madeline Gins). Paris: Editions Manucius, 2005.
Architectural Body (in collaboration with Madeline Gins). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.
Reversible Destiny: We Have Decided Not to Die (Guggenheim Catalog) (in collaboration with Madeline Gins). New York: Abrams, Inc., 1997.
Arakawa and Madeline Gins. ARCHITECTURE Reversible Sites, Reversible Destiny (Architectural Experiments after Auschwitz-Hiroshima). London: Academy Editions, 1995.
Arakawa and Madeline Gins. The Mechanism of Meaning (introduction by Lawrence Alloway).
Munich: Bruckmann, 1971 (1st edition). New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1979 (2nd edition). New York: Abbeville Press, 1989 (3rd edition).
Arakawa and Madeline Gins. To Not To Die. Paris: Editions de la Différence, 1987.
Arakawa and Madeline Gins. For Example (A Critique of Never). Milan: Alessandra Castelli Press, 1974.
Essays:
“The Architectural Body – Landing Sites,” Space in America: Theory History Culture, (editors) Klaus Benesch and Kerstein Schmidt, Fall 2005.
“Gifu—Reversible Destiny” (in collaboration with Madeline Gins). Architectural Design, Games of Architecture, 1996, pp. 27-35.
“Housing Complexity” (in collaboration with Madeline Gins). Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts no. 6, Complexity, 1995, pp. 88-95.
"Landing Sites/The End of Spacetime." Arakawa and Madeline Gins. Art and Design, May-June, 1993.
"Person as Site in Respect to a Tentative Constructed Plan." Arakawa and Madeline Gins. ANYWHERE, 1992, pp. 54-67.
"The Tentative Constructed Plan as Intervening Device (for a Reversible Destiny)." Arakawa and Madeline Gins A+U: Architecture and Urbanism, December 1991, pp. 48-57.
Selected Articles & Reviews:
“Design Innovation House: Reversible Destiny Lofts.” Archiworld, 2006.
Femke Bijlsma. “Come Si Rovescia Il Destino.” Casa, May 2006.
Mari Hashimoto. “How to Live in Reversible Destiny Lofts with Directions for Use.” Casa Brutus, February 2006.
Yoshihio Sano. “The trial to cross-over.” Japan Architect, February 2006.
Lawrence B. Nagy. “Parcours vita a domicile.” Monde, February 26, 2006
Tomoko Otake. “Home sweet ‘death-defying’condo homes.” The Japan Times, January 15, 2006
Kay Itoi. “The Discomforts of Home.” Newsweek International, December 19, 2005
Arata Takahashi. Interview with Arakawa. “Innovator File. No. 45: Warning to the Pursuit of Functionality (Reversible Destiny Urban City Concept.” Innovative One, July 13, 2005
Takeshi Matsuda. “Closeup: Building a Residence with Tubes, Spheres and Cubes.” Nikkei Architecture, May 2, 2005
Joel David Robinson. “From Clockwork Bodies to Reversible Destinies (On the Architectural Experiments of Arakawa and Gins).” Art Papers, March/April 2005.
Lisa Licitra Ponti. “Arakawa + Gins. Living Bodies.” Domus 879, March 2005.
Susan Stewart, “On the Art of the Future.” The Chicago Review, Winter 2004/2005.
Karen MacCormack. “Mutual Labyrinth: A Proposal of Exchange.” Architectures of Poetry. Eds., Dworkin, Craig Douglas and Maria Eugenia Diaz Sanchez. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004
Michel Delville. “How Not to Die in Venice: The Art of Arakawa and Madeline Gins.” Architectures of Poetry. Eds., Dworkin, Craig Douglas and Maria Eugenia Diaz Sanchez. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004
Michelle Delville. “How Not to Die in Venice: The Art of Arakawa and Madeline Gins” Reading the Illegible (Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies). (ed. by Craig Dworkin. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2003.)
Jean-Michel Rabaté, ed. “Architecture Against Death Architecture” Interfaces (21-22) A + G Special Double Issue, Fall 2003.
David Kolb. Review of Architectural Body. Continental Philosophy Review, 2003.
Patrick Pardo. “Regarding the Lives of Human Snails: Arakawa/Gins and the Architectural Body.”
The Daily NY Arts Newsletter. May 15, 2003, p.1.
Aaron Kunin. “Stay Alive: Gins and Arakawa vs. The Grim Reaper.” The Village Voice, January 15 – 21, 2003.
Joel David Robinson. Review of Architectural Body. Parachute, April 5, 2003.
Geraldine McKenzie. Review of Architectural Body. How2, Spring 2003.
Jeff Byles. “The Reversible Destiny: Architecture of Arakawa and Madeline Gins.” Plazm 27, 2002.
Mary Ann Caws “Taking Textual Time” Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print. ed. by Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux and Neil Fraistat. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.
Arthur C. Danto. “Arakawa-Gins.” The Nation, August 11/18 1997, pp.31-34. Reprinted in The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. pp.265-272
Samira Kawash. “Bodies at Risk- The Architecture of Reversible Destiny.” PAJ 59, 1998, pp. 17-27.
Tom McEvilley. “Arakawa and Gins at the Guggenheim Soho.” Art in America, January 1998, pp. 100-101.
Gendai Shiso. (The Journal of Contemporary Thought –Tokyo), which devotes each issue to the work of a leading contemporary thinker, devoted its August 1996 issue to Arakawa/Gins.
Howard Smagula. Currents: Contemporary Directions in the Visual Arts. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1989
Italo Calvino. "The Arrow in the Mind," Artforum, September, 1985.
Charles Bernstein and Susan B. Laufer. "Meaning the Meaning: Arakawa's Critique of Space," Beauty and Critique (ed. by Richard Milazzo, 1983), 59-66.
Robert Creeley. "'Some Place Enormously Moveable' - The Collaboration of Arakawa and Madeline H. Gins," Artforum, Vol. 18 (Summer, 1980), 60-65.
Arthur Danto. "The Mechanism of Meaning: Work in Progress (1963-71, 1978) " Print Collector's Newsletter, Vol. 10 (September, 1979), 135-136.
MADELINE GINS
Biography
In 1987, founded with Arakawa Architectural Body Research Foundation (formerly Containers of Mind Foundation)
In 1963, began collaborating with Arakawa on the research project The Mechanism of Meaning
Graduated from Barnard College, 1962
Born November 7, 1941, in New York, where she now resides
Awards
2003 Nihon Gendai Geijutsu Shinko Sho – Award for innovation in Japanese contemporary art from Japan Arts Foundation
1998Highest award of the Rainbow Town Urban Designing Competition for Chinju no Mori/Sensorium City (Tokyo Bay)
1997College Art Association’s Artist Award for Exhibition of the Year/Distinguished Body of Work, Presentation or Performance Award
Conferences
2006
2005“Arakawa and Gins: Architecture and Philosophy,” University of Paris X-Nanterre
2008"Reversible Destiny - Declaration of the Right Not to Die: Second International Arakawa +
Gins Architecture + Philosophy Conference/Congress," University of Pennsylvania, Slought Foundation
Exhibitions
Arakawa/Gins:
1998 NTT Intercommunication Center: The City as the Art Form of the Next Millennium
1997 Guggenheim Museum Soho: Reversible Destiny
Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
1972Traveling Exhibition: The Mechanism of Meaning
Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Städtische im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Constructions
2000-08Bioscleave House, East Hampton, Long Island (Completion Date: April 2008)
2002-06Reversible Destiny Lofts – Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan.
2001-05External Genome Housing Park-- Shidami, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. (In association with Takenaka Corporation) Completion Date 2005
Reversible Destiny Office, Yoro, Gifu Prefecture
1994 Site of Reversible Destiny, Yoro, Gifu Prefecture [a seven acre site in central Japan]
1992Ubiquitous Site * Nagi's Ryoanji *, Architectural Body, [Permanent Installation],
Nagi MOCA, Nagi
Bibliography
Books:
Making Dying Illegal, Architecture Against Death: Original to the 21st Century. (in collaboration with Arakawa). Tokyo: Shunjusha, 2007
Making Dying Illegal, Architecture Against Death: Original to the 21st Century. (in collaboration with Arakawa). New York: Roof Books. (November, 2006).
Le Corps Architectural (in collaboration with Arakawa). Paris: Editions Manucius, 2005.
Architectural Body (in collaboration with Arakawa). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.
Reversible Destiny: We Have Decided Not to Die (Guggenheim Catalog) (in collaboration with Arakawa). New York: Abrams, Inc., 1997.
ARCHITECTURE: Sites of Reversible Destiny (Architectural Experiments after Auschwitz-Hiroshima) (in collaboration with Arakawa). London: Academy Editions, 1994.
Helen Keller or Arakawa. Santa Fe: Burning Books with East/West Cultural Studies, 1994.
To Not To Die (in collaboration with Arakawa). Paris: Editions de la Différence, 1987.
What the President Will Say and Do!! New York: Station Hill Press, 1984.
The Mechanism of Meaning (in collaboration with Arakawa) (introduction by Lawrence Alloway). Munich: Bruckmann, 1971. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1979 (2nd edition). New York: Abbeville Press, 1989 (3rd edition).
For Example (A Critique of Never) (in collaboration with Arakawa). Milan: Alessandra Castelli Press, 1974.
Intend. Bologna: Tau/ma, 1973.
Word Rain (or A Discursive Introduction to the Philosophical Investigation of G,R,E,T,A, G,A,R,B,O, It Says). New York: Grossman/Viking, 1969.
Essays:
“Biotopological Report #10, First Draft, 2006,” (in collaboration with Arakawa). The Canary 6, 2007
Kerb, 2007/2008
“(untitled),”“(untitled),”“(Poem Precedes Title),” “The The Eyelid,” Outing,” “Localization and Transference.” Séance, 2006, (in collaboration with Arakawa). pp. 169 - 171. 2006, p. 171.
“The Architectural Body – Landing Sites,” (in collaboration with Arakawa). Space in America: Theory History Culture, (editors) Klaus Benesch and Kerstein Schmidt, Fall 2005.
“LIVING BODY Museumeum,” Cities Without Citizens. 2003, pp. 243 -157
“Gifu-Reversible Destiny” (in collaboration with Arakawa). Architectural Design, Games of Architecture, 1996, pp. 27-35.
“Housing Complexity” (in collaboration with Arakawa). Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts no. 6, Complexity, 1995, pp. 88-95.
"Landing Sites/The End of Spacetime" (in collaboration with Arakawa). Art and Design, May-June, 1993.
"Person as Site in Respect to a Tentative Constructed Plan" (in collaboration with Arakawa). ANYWHERE, 1992, pp. 54-67.
"The Tentative Constructed Plan as Intervening Device (for a Reversible Destiny)" (in collaboration with Arakawa). A+U: Architecture and Urbanism, December 1991, pp. 48-57.
"The Process in Question," Critical Relations. Highgate Art Trust, (editor) Joan Burns, MA: Williamstown, 1989.
"To Return To!" (in collaboration with Arakawa), Marcel Duchamp and the Avant-Garde Since 1950. Köln: Ludwig Museum, 1988.
"Essay on Multi-Dimensional Architecture" (selections published in Boundary 2, Fall 1985/Winter 1986, and Pratt Architectural Journal, Spring 1988).
"Forum: Arakawa's The Sharing of Nameless, 1982-83," DRAWING, Jan.-Feb. 1985, pp. 103-104.
Selected Articles & Reviews:
Architektur & Wohen, October/November 2008
Architecture Journal (JPN), 2008
Aera
Architecture Plus
“Emotive Architecture,” Architect’s Newspaper, April 16, 2008
Die Weit
DisenArt
Europaconcorsi
Geo Lino
Home Concepts
High Fashion
Ikkojin
Interni
KJ
L’Actualite
Mark Magazine
Science et Vie Junior
Voyager
Ryuko
SuperDeco, 2007
Tone
Techniques et Architecture
Woman
X-Knowledge Home
Zapp, 2008
“Bioscleave House,” Interior World, 2008
Jean-Francois Lyotard. Que Peindre?: Adami, Arakawa, Buren. Paris: Hermann Editeurs, 2008.
R. Klanten, L. Feireiss. Eds. Strike a Pose: Eccentric Architecture and Spectacular Spaces. September 2008.
Jondi Keane and Evan Selinger. “Architecture and Philosophy: Refelections on Arakawa and Gins.” Footprint. Autumn 2008.
“Pour les seniors le futur prend des couleurs,” Newzy, April 2008
Eleonore Kleuters. “Stirb an einem anderen Tag,” Financial Times Deutschland, April 23, 2008
Fred Bernstein. “A House Not for Mere Mortals,” New York Times, April 2008
Costica Bradatan. “The Alchemists of the 21st Century,” Review of Making Dying Illegal. Architecture against Death: Original to the 21st Century, Parallax, 13 (2008).
Jondi Keane. “Exert Yourself in Wholly Other Ways,” Kerb, 2007/2008
Jondi Keane. “Situating Situatedness through Æffect and the Architectural Body of Arakawa and Gins,” Janus Head, Winter/Spring Issue 2007, 9.2, pp. 437-457
Florentine Sack. Open House: Towards a New Architecture. 2006, pp. 131- 143.
“Design Innovation House: Reversible Destiny Lofts.” Archiworld, 2006.
Femke Bijlsma. “Come Si Rovescia Il Destino.” Casa, May 2006.
Mari Hashimoto. “How to Live in Reversible Destiny Lofts with Directions for Use.” Casa Brutus, February 2006.
Yoshihio Sano. “The trial to cross-over.” Japan Architect, February 2006.
Lawrence B. Nagy. “Parcours vita a domicile.” Monde, February, 26, 2006.
Tomoko Otake. “Home sweet ‘death-defying’condo homes.” The Japan Times, January 15, 2006.
Takeshi Matsuda. “Closeup: Building a Residence with Tubes, Spheres and Cubes.” Nikkei Architecture, May 2, 2005
Joel David Robinson. “From Clockwork Bodies to Reversible Destinies (On the Architectural Experiments of Arakawa and Gins).” Art Papers, March/April 2005.
Lisa Licitra Ponti. “Arakawa + Gins. Living Bodies.” Domus 879, March 2005.
Susan Stewart. “On the Art of the Future.” The Chicago Review, Winter 2004/2005.
Karen MacCormack. “Mutual Labyrinth: A Proposal of Exchange.” Architectures of Poetry. Eds., Dworkin, Craig Douglas and Maria Eugenia Diaz Sanchez. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004
Michel Delville. “How Not to Die in Venice: The Art of Arakawa and Madeline Gins.” Architectures of Poetry. Eds., Dworkin, Craig Douglas and Maria Eugenia Diaz Sanchez. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004
Michelle Delville. “How Not to Die in Venice: The Art of Arakawa and Madeline Gins” Reading the Illegible (Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies). Ed. by Craig Dworkin. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2003.
David Kolb. Review of Architectural Body. Continental Philosophy Review, 2003.
Patrick Pardo. “Regarding the Lives of Human Snails: Arakawa/Gins and the Architectural Body.”
The Daily NY Arts Newsletter. May 15, 2003, p.1.
Aaron Kunin. “Stay Alive: Gins and Arakawa vs. The Grim Reaper.” The Village Voice, January 15 – 21,
2003.
Joel David Robinson. Review of Architectural Body. Parachute, April 5, 2003.
Geraldine McKenzie. Review of Architectural Body. How2, Spring 2003.
Jean-Michel Rabaté, ed. “Architecture Against Death Architecture” Interfaces (21-22) A + G Special Double Issue, Fall 2003.
Mary Ann Caws. “Taking Textual Time” Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print. Edited by Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux and Neil Fraistat. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.
Jeff Byles. “The Reversible Destiny: Architecture of Arakawa and Madeline Gins.” Plazm, 27, 2002.
Arthur C. Danto. “Arakawa-Gins.” The Nation, August 11/18 1997, pp. 31-34. Reprinted in The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. pp.265-272
Samira Kawash. “Bodies at Risk- The Architecture of Reversible Destiny.” PAJ 59, 1998, pp. 17-27.
Tom McEvilley. “Arakawa and Gins at the Guggenheim Soho.” Art in America, January 1998, pp. 100-101.
Mark Amerika. "Astrophysical Grammatology- Helen Keller or Arakawa." American Book Review, February-March 1996, Vol. 17, No. 3, p. 18.
Gendai Shiso. (The Journal of Contemporary Thought – Tokyo), (Each issue of this journal is devoted to the work of a leading contemporary thinker). August 1996, devoted to the work of Arakawa/Gins.
Serge Gavronsky. “Dot Lamour.” Witz, A Journal of Contemporary Poetics, Winter 1994, Volume III, No. 1.
Mary Ann Caws. “Madeline Gins- Helen Keller or Arakawa.” Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts, no. 6, Complexity, 1995, p. 96.
Robert Creeley. “‘Someplace Enormously Moveable’- The Collaboration of Arakawa and Madeline Gins.” Art Forum, Vol. 18 (Summer, 1980), pp. 60-65.
