Influences On Contemporary Artists
- onKawaraUpdate (v2) (2007) by American art collective MTAA updates and automates (via software) the process-oriented nature of On Kawara's date paintings.
- American artist Eric Doeringer recreated On Kawara's I Got Up project and created a Today painting with his own birthday as part of his Bootleg series.
- British artist David Michael Clarke reworked On Kawara's Today series as Today Marriages 1969 - 1999 (2001).
- In Return to Sender (2004) British artist Jonathan Monk co-opts On Kawara's I Got Up At (1968–1979).
- I am Still Alive is an installation piece after On Kawara by Martin John Callanan (artist).
- Start it is a license to practice On Kawara's individual moments by German artist Stefan Hager.
- 891 (2006) by Belgian artist Kurt Duyck is a Blog Art tribute to On Kawara's I Got Up At.
- On Kawara is not Dead (2006) by Belgian artist Danny Devos is a Blog Art tribute to On Kawara's I am Still Alive.
- The Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima's use of numbers is a product of On Kawara's influence on him.
- In his multipart Rwanda Project, executed between 1994 and 2000 in response to the Rwandan genocide, Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar sent Rwandan tourist postcards to his friends around the world, mailed from neighboring Uganda, bearing the names of people who he'd encountered while travelling in Rwanda, reversing the self-referential content of On Kawara's work 'I am Still Alive'; "Jyamiya Muhawenimawa is still alive!", "Caritas Namazuru is still alive!", "Canisius Nzayisenga is still alive!" etc.
- Rakawa.net is a micro-blogging web-site, which is devoted to honor On Kawara's work and simultaneously offers users to document and to inform about daily accomplishments, based on the question "What have you achieved today?" and optionally illustrated by a picture.
- The On Kawara Code (2008) by the Canadian artist Timothy Comeau reproduces Kawara's date paintings and One Million Years books using web-programming.
- Between 2004 and 2007, Candida Höfer realized the project On Kawara: Date Paintings (2009), which attempts to document Kawara’s oeuvre at the point where each work is hung in its respective collector’s home.
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