Under Commons Vol.2
Provisional Access

Mai Endo
Endo is an artist and actor whose practice explores body politics through collaborative projects. Drawing on queer feminist theory, her work incorporates notions of passivity and failure as critical strategies, realized through performance, video, and the aesthetics of manga. Recently, she presented the performance video “Ritual for Omega and Alpha” (2024), a reinterpretation of postwar Japanese striptease culture, with odoriko(stripteaser) Natsu Usami at the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. In 2022, she was a visiting researcher at Franklin Furnace, an archival organization dedicated to non-institutional time-based art since the 1970s, during her stay in New York under the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ Overseas Study Program for Emerging Artists. In 2018, she co-founded the queer feminist art zine “Multiple Spirits” with critic and curator Mika Maruyama.

Analogue: A Hate Story
(Love Conquers All Games ,2012)
A science-fiction game in which players decipher logs left behind by the dead to uncover what happened aboard the drifting spaceship Mugunghwa. By hacking into and rewriting the codes of patriarchy and marriage, the game brings to light the voices of women who have been silenced throughout history, along with the social institutions that have perpetuated their oppression.

Kazuki Oishi
Working from a sculptural perspective, Kazuki Oishi creates works that bring into being, as events, realms that cannot be defined as either material or immaterial. Focusing on the fragmentary synchronicities of human experience and the physical phenomena that evoke them, his practice spans multiple media, including sculptures made from unfired clay, installations, video, poetry, and performance.

His major solo exhibitions include 光]でもってすべて見)つくす、音)とどくとも。) (Shoonji Temple, 2026), Redevelopment of Development vol. 7: Kazuki Oishi | Disappearance II (gallery αM, 2024), Stone and Text (a site along the Akigawa River, 2023), Voyager is with you (Art Center Ongoing, 2023), and For instance, Humidity (sandwich.gallery CFP, 2022).

In 2024, he also launched the publishing imprint Chop the Light Publications, through which he produces artist books that explore and expand the possibilities of archiving.
（Photo by Mai Komura / コムラマイ）

The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood
(Deconstructeam, 2023)
Players take on the role of Fortuna, a fortune-telling witch exiled to an asteroid, and shape the fate of a society of witches across the cosmos. By creating their own tarot cards and making a series of choices as they divine the futures of others, the game raises questions about free will, choice, and what it means to take responsibility for the consequences of one’s decisions.

Kei Kiyohara
The artist creates paintings based on memories, notes, and sketches of spontaneous encounters and interactions with strangers, as well as acts of transgression. In recent years, their practice has focused on the absurdities and distortions of human behavior that emerge through everyday economic activities, such as earning money, purchasing goods and services, and consuming.
Notable works and exhibitions include Shopping (2025), a series depicting people shopping for UNIQLO and GU products in the city, painted directly onto clothing from these brands and presented alongside piles of secondhand UNIQLO and GU garments that visitors were free to take home; and the solo exhibition If You Run to Trash (2026), which featured works made exclusively on discarded objects, with their materials and prices explicitly listed.

Citizen Sleeper
(Jump Over The Age, 2022)
Set in a future where corporations and capitalism dominate the cosmos, this sci-fi RPG puts players in the role of a worker who has escaped corporate control and found refuge on a remote space station. As players navigate limited time and resources, work, and build relationships with others, the game explores strategies for survival and solidarity under capitalism, while questioning what freedom might look like beyond it.

Finnegan Shannon《Time travel with me》
Finnegan Shannon is an artist whose practice explores various forms of access and accessibility.

Their recent projects include Alt Text as Poetry, a collaboration with Bojana Coklyat that explores the expressive possibilities of describing images through language; Do You Want Us Here or Not, a series of benches and cushions designed for exhibition spaces; and Don’t mind if I do, an exhibition centered around a conveyor belt that prioritizes rest and play.
They have received the Wynn Newhouse Award, Eyebeam Fellowship, Disability Futures Fellowship, and United States Artists Fellowship, as well as grants from the Art Matters Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, and Disability Visibility Project.

For this exhibition, an audio work that translates the visual information of the entire exhibition into words and records it as spoken narration, 『Time travel with me』（Finnegan Shannon, 2022）is recomposed and exhibited.

Trace of Queer
（Ginga Kondo, 2026）
A game in which the protagonist, who uses a wheelchair like the artist, traces queer histories and traces of queer existence that have been erased from public spaces and art history. Along the way, the protagonist converses with spirits born from the grief and resentment of being erased from history, and at times transforms into a spirit themselves, searching for queer traces across both physical and digital spaces

Ginga Kondo
Born in 1992. An artist, art historian, and pansexual individual. They developed ME/CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) during junior high school and have used a wheelchair ever since. Alongside their research into Western art that can be interpreted from a contemporary perspective as depicting female same-sex desire, they create works exploring sexuality through game engines and computer-generated imagery (CG).

As a writer, they have contributed extensively to magazines such as Gendai Shisō, SF Magazine, and Bungei. Their co-authored publications include We Are Already Together: An Anti-Trans Discrimination Booklet (Gendaishokan, 2023), How Science Fiction Writers Think (Shakai Hyoronsha, 2024), and An Introduction to Yuri Studies (Ohta Publishing, 2026). Their solo-authored book Feminist, Playing Games (Shobunsha, 2024) was selected as one of the winning titles of the 2024 Kinokuniya Humanities Book Awards.

As an artist, they have also created the album cover artwork for Still Sounds by Till Yawuh, an artist associated with Kakubarhythm, as well as the music video for Nennen Korori by VTuber Onsen

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
(Nikita Kryukov, 2020)
Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk
(Nikita Kryukov, 2021)
Two visual novels that explore the shifting perceptions and inner world of a young girl who sets out to buy milk. Through repeated conversations with the girl, players accompany her through a world where reality and imagination intertwine, experiencing how even the smallest aspects of everyday life can become overwhelming challenges for someone.

Behind Every Great One
(Deconstructeam, 2019)
Victorine is the wife of Gabriel, a successful artist. She spends her days performing domestic labor, supporting his artistic practice and everyday life behind the scenes. Through the repetition of daily tasks such as cooking and cleaning, the work brings to light the often-invisible care and domestic labor that underpin the success of a “great artist,” while revealing the unequal dynamics of their marriage.