Reflection as Compression
2020
Live-Installation
Yamaji Textile Factory, Gunma prefecture, Japan
Outstanding Performance Award, Tokyo University of the Arts: Art Festival 2021
Recently I have been considering how I relate to both technology and nature. What are the emotional and physical differences of being in front of and within an electronic screen? When I relay an installation work as video, I inevitably encounter the complications of the original space compressed tightly into the screen. At this event, I aim to make an installation work as a series of live visual images based on this sensation of compression. When the visual phenomena of this experimental installation are compressed in the act of live streaming, the visual phenomena will traverse space-time, and may be able to exist as transformed drawings of the original phenomena. This is one approach to my belief that conceptual art can be grounded by a sense of reality.
I intend to realize visual images in unstable situations as an installation work by using natural phenomena in which chemicals and other physical forms such as liquid move and change conditions. When we see such unstable images, I believe we experience bodily feelings in the automatic use of our eyes. I am curious about this and expect these unstable visual experiences to lead to new sensations, even if we can only see such images through digital gadgets. My project exists in this dynamic contemporary relationship between technology, nature, and human feelings.
Moment of Encountering through "Seeing" (2020-2021)
What are we looking at when we are "seeing"? Is it information, phenomena, or the appearance of our own feelings?
This is an earnest question especially in recent days. We encounter so much information every day. However, I would say it is questionable as to whether the situation should be called "seeing". This is because I often feel much information is being pushed to people from outside. For “seeing by myself”, I planned to capture visual phenomena as subjective photos and videos in my installation work because I wanted to show nothing realized without "seeing". I mainly create installations, but I also treat video and photographs as nesting layers which serve as another form of artistic expression and enable me to create new physicality through observing my installation work. I think this nesting approach can enable deeper understanding of the encounters that happen between our bodies and visual phenomena.
Although we often experience different kinds of distances, the moment of encountering phenomena is witnessed within each person’s individual perception. Such encounters are drawn by natural phenomena and our perceptions, so I would say they could be called drawings. These works show moments when I witnessed and generated new drawings.