Local artists were asked to participate at each location of the traveling exhibition which was organized in New York by Jonas Mekas.
I spent several days at the gallery teaching the rudiments of the game of go to those with interest.
Go is a game that originated in China several thousand years ago and is still played with the same basic rule system.
With contributions from Japanese players of the 18th and 19th centuries the strategy for the game has been advanced to an artistic level and the game has spread around the world.
Today, however, it is rare to find anyone in Japan under the age of forty who knows anything about The Game of Go.
For my performance I invited visitors to the gallery to sit down and spend a few minutes placing dried peas on the go board.
I used the system of rules and strategy of the game of go, which I had learned by playing on the Internet Go Server (IGS)
and at the Ikeda Igo (eego) Salon in Kou Zou Ji, Aichi, Japan.
Gallery visitors were welcome to place the dried peas on the board using any system they liked.
Many visitors prefered to go through a brief tutorial on the game before beginning.
Others, after a few minutes of using thier own system, became interested in the system that I was using.
When I was absent from the gallery the last arrangement of peas remained installed with the other artwork.
Visitors to the gallery were also encouraged to place peas on the board in my absence.
I have since been invited to come to the gallery to play the game of go with gallery visitors at any time I like.

This workshop was made possible by "The Jonas Mekas and Friends' Little International Exhibition" and a grant from The Daiko Foundation, Japan.

These are drawings of some of the arrangements made with dried pieas on the go board from November 9 - 21, 1999.

This arrangement was made with Harada Akio and Mizuno Kyoko.

This arrangement was made with Kaneko Tetsuya.

I owe special thanks to Eiji Shinmi of Gallery Canolfan
along with Eiichi Iwata and Akiyo Tsubakihara
who also presented with 'local artist workshops' in connection with the
"Jonas Mekas and Friends' Little International Exhibition" in Nagoya.