At its core, CCConnecting Japan Vol.2 is a dialogue—an evolving exchange tracing the resonances, divergences, and shared sensitivities between the contemporary art scenes of Indonesia and Japan. The first chapter of this collaboration, “CCConnecting Japan – Colour of the Trap: A Solo Exhibition by Sir Dandy”, took place in June 2025 at DOWNLOW Gallery, Tokyo (curated by Kei Sato). What began as a cross-cultural encounter has since unfolded into an ongoing creative relationship. For this second edition, Canvas Confluence Collective and spaCCCe as CCC Home welcome three pivotal figures from Tokyo’ s underground art and skate movements to Jakarta. Their works converge in an exhibition that navigates the intersections of culture, movement, and identity.
DISKAH’s freehand compositions and tactile lines embody decades of immersion in Tokyo’ s skate and street art worlds. His paintings and photographs pulse with lived energy—observing life from the street’ s edge, where rhythm and imperfection shape his visual language.
MOZYSKEY transforms alphabets, kana, and kanji into fluid abstraction. His graffiti practice dissolves the boundary between writing and image, creating a visual syntax that celebrates rebellion and reinvention within Tokyo’ s underground culture.
LUI ARAKI, a professional skateboarder and photographer, bridges motion and stillness. A member of ZOO YORK since the late 1990s, his photographic works capture transient moments—frames where emotion, space, and memory converge. Together, these artists embody a creative continuum between Japan and Indonesia—an exchange grounded in movement, energy, and the shared pulse of urban life.
Lui Araki originally from Kobe, currently living in Tokyo. Professional skateboarder/photographer. A member of the NYC deck company “ZOO YORK” since the late ’90s, he continues to work as a professional skateboarder, establishing his skills and style while also working as a photographer. He captures moments with his film camera, always carrying it with him, both in Japan and abroad, and whether it’s landscape or portrait, and his appeal lies in his emotive photographs, which evoke a story in a single shot. He is particular about the quality of his work, and prints his images in his own home darkroom.
DISKAH is an artist who starts from the street and skateboard culture of Tokyo, reflecting the reality and antithesis of people through free and improvised expression. The work includes iconic motifs such as the “Kaijyu (Monster Painting)” series, “SONONAMO”, and “KillyBird” which are somehow comical and familiar, but also essential to the viewer. The works are comical and familiar, yet they pose fundamental questions to the viewer. While seemingly pop and cute at first glance, the works also contain anxiety and frustration of society and individuals, a quiet anger toward unreasonableness, and a longing for a brighter future. By cuttingout scenes and moments experienced in the past and reconstructing them through the symbolism of discursive are, the artist intends to evoke the viewer’s own story.
Since the 1990s, Tokyo-based artist has developed various approaches to graffiti culture. From the beauty of Tagging sublimated series of shapes, where the mix of alphabet, kana characters, and kanji are beyond readability and engraving them as good, comes the free challenge to functionality and system, and the belief and aesthetics of writers who have been inciting the world from the Tokyo underground scene. Exhibitions and expressive activities in various scenes and scales, from street to fashion to museums.