exhibition title: Here shows recent works in new installations, by the way.
date: 11/22, 2008 - 3/29, 2009
view: installation at The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki, Japan
*more detail of titles are below.
note:
This is the small retrospective exhibition about my failure works since 2001 to 2008. Of course we, artist, are not perfect, not super-man, we fail often. Somehow this museum could keep my failure works in their storage for some time. I always want to remake or rethink about the installation for those works. Eventually I had a opportunity to do such a show in the museum collection section. So I reconstruct, re-take a video, remake a sculpture and re-install those works. Also I had a artist talk about B-side of my works. I spoke some story behind the work I never say before and how I fail it at that time and relationship between the failure and the success.
1;
title: Then, a whole bunch of basins crash down to the floor of the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
year: 2007-2008
material: DVD, color, sound, basin, wood, rooftop(2400x5400x1800mm)
time: 35 seconds
size: variable according to installation
note: On the occasion of the thematic show focus on "laughter" in Mori Art Museum, I did a project about Japanese comedy from 80's. After one comedian group called Drifters invented the typical end for their show in TV program, it influenced to younger generations afterwards. And I think it is one of the phenomena for Japanese comedy scene. What they did is like this, when a comedian said funny things at the end, there was a basin fell down on his head(And then he could show his funny face too). So I took that image without anybody but a lot of basins into the end of the exhibition in the Museum.
And this version of the project was remade for Gunma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drifters_%28Japanese_band%29
2;
title: “Broken” Amuro and Amuros (*new version of the installation)
year: 2005/2008
material: Mixed media
size: 3400x6300x2700 mm
note: As Japanese, I wondered how I approached to Animation field. Occasionally I had a chance to participate the show about "GUNDAM" which one of the most popular animation series in Japan. The main character called Amuro is 14 years old who operate the robot and is forced to go to the war. I built the room where he spent during the war in the space ship. And put a monitor which showed 14 years old Japanese boy's faces that same age as Amuro one after another. In the video, They seems really serious because they looked at themselves through a mirror, half-way mirror that covered the camera.
As for "Broken" version, I had another chance to show this piece in other context, other museum. So I de-constructed the room as a imitation of the animation. But keep showing the faces as a simple documentary of 14 years old Japanese boys.
3;
title: monster in my hand, poster
year: 2008
material: inkjet print on cloth
size: 1030×1456mm
note: Accidentally I found my hand have weird shape when I put my thumb close to forefinger.
4;
title: Simple Gesture and Temporary Sculpture
year: 2008
material: DVD, color, sound
time: 3 minutes and 26 seconds
note: This work was shot in different locations such as Mashiko, which is my hometown, Tokyo where I lived at that time and Vienna where I spent a month during a residency. I collected random moments depicting how I interacted with objects in daily use and in ordinary places.
5;
title: Plastic Bags into the Sky
year: 2004
material: DVD, color, sound
time: 2 minutes and 33 seconds
note: when i lived in NY, i saw many plastic bags flew in the sky. And i wondered if someone made them fly. So i imitated the imaginary actor in several spot in the city.
6;
title: Sneakers
year: 2004
material: DVD, color, sound
time: 26 seconds
note: how difference between first throwing the mate to a shoe and second action? I tried it several times in the staircase.
7;
title: Put in toilet papers for a broom and pull it out quickly
year: 2006
material: HDV video, color, sound
time: 4 seconds
note: it is documenting how toilet paper fall down on the floor. Occasionally I installed actually scene next to this video work.
8;
title: I walked midnight in the forest five hours with a small chair by chance, poster
year: 2006
material: inkjet print on cloth
size: 1030×1456mm
note: As a one of the participant of workshop by Pawel Althamer, I went to deep forest in Poland with them. A folk, who somehow likes Japanese, gave me a small chair that she found it when she moved the house long time ago. Then after, we did night walking in the forest for 7 hours, which whole night. Next morning, I put the chair and my backpack on the grass then took this picture for my memory.
9;
title: New Type Sense(The Movie)
year: 2005
material: FRP polyester resin, steel, stainless steel, urethane coating
size: 40x300x30cm
3D: Miyauchi Hisoka
note: I captured the shape of the image of telepathy from the animation called GANDAM. Then I fabricated 3-dimension sculpture by that 2D image.
10;
title: Gum Monster, version of Museum of Modern Art, Gunma with approximately 150 tapes
year: 2001/2008
material: packing tapes
size: 2200x1900x1800mm
note: When I was a editor at a university publisher, my desk was totally messy. There were many trashes on the desk. And I was wondering, if this small tape trash became a huge one, it should be a some kinds of monster... So I started to make that packing tape monster every day during my working duty but in the storage of stock.
This work keep developing in several other context.
11;
title: I remember you always when I see the sky which you like.
year: 2006-2007
material: wood, paper
size: 2000x3000 mm
note: this is very personal photograph.
the planet of the sun is unique, of course. but in this image, the sun spread out so many spots in water on the street cleaning period in paris. every single tiny shiny spot is the sun. it shows us there is so many possibilities of the alternative way the world exist.
when i encountered this reality of life, at the same time i just broke up with my girlfriend. through this fact the sun is not only one, the world is not only one, i thought probably some other "me" might live in other possible world with her. i cheered up myself like that.
12;
title: Ordinary things, Extraordinary things and then, maybe, Something else
year: 2007
material: wood, paper
size: 2000x3000 mm
note: There is a label on a wall in a museum show as usual. I enlarged the label of the work title itself as audience might think it was the title of my installation.
And then later I replaced it in the other context, the other show.
