Akasegawa Genpei (赤瀬川 原平, 1937 - ) is a pseudonym of Japanese conceptual artist Akasegawa Katsuhiko (赤瀬川 克彦). He used another pen name Otsuji Katsuhiko (尾辻 克彦) for novels.

During 1960s, he was known as a Neo-Dadaist. He and Takamatsu Jiro , Nakanishi Natsuyuki formed a group Hi-Red Center and performed happenings. In 1966, he was prosecuted for his series of works of replicated 1000-yen notes.

In 1980 he came up with an idea of Hyper-Art (chōgeijutsu), an otherwise ordinary street object that happen to look like a conceptual art. He called such things Thomason .

He (as Otsuji Katsuhiko) received Akutagawa Prize in 1981 for his short story, Chichi ga kieta.

Bibliography

• 『超芸術トマソン』 (Chōgeijutsu Tomason), Byakuya shobō, 1985. Reissue: Chikuma bunko, 1987, ISBN 4-480-02189-2.
• 『東京ミキサー計画』 (Tōkyō mikisā keikaku), PARCO, 1984. Reissue: Chikuma bunko, 1994, ISBN 4-480-02935-4.

External links

• http://www.jpf.go.jp/yt2001/cyber/artist/004_Akas/info.html
• http://imaginatorium.org/books/photech.htm