Each year I add a day to my Japan visit to travel around Tokyo, usually visiting Roppongi’s Mori Art Museum where I’ve seen everything from retrospectives of contemporary Chinese artists like Ai Wei-Wei to a 30th Anniversary Hello Kitty exhibit featuring a contribution by Sonic Youth. It was during one of these visits that I first cam across Chris Cunningham who is one of the latest additions to Fuji line-up.

I stumbled upon Cunningham’s “Rubber Johnny” DVD in the Mori gift shop, a short horror themed flick filmed entirely with a DV camera’s night vision setting and a character seemingly composed of nylon hosiery stuffed with cotton wadding. And now, this little figure, along with 3 simultaneous projection screens and a live soundtrack will be gracing the Saturday’s Green Stage, and I’m guessing here, but probably right after Roxy Music.

Cunningham not only has art-world cred but quite a track record of producing videos for top artists like Portishead, Bjork, and even Madonna. He took a hiatus from this lucrative video work to learn music production fulltime in 2004 & 2005, emerging at the end with a 45 minute audio-visual piece performance at Electraglide in Tokyo. The show went over so well that he’s still doing it 5 years later. In my opinion, Cunningham deserves a cheer for this: we’ve already known how important a stunning stage show is for many artists, and now, we’ve finally got an audio visual extravaganza with the musicians truly in the background