exhibition title: Rondom Hours, Several Locations
date: January 9th - February 20th, 2010
view: installation at YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto, Canada
Y gallery
*Mirror of two columns is the artwork by GORDON LEBREDT for the project called YYZ UNLIMITED.
1
Title: A Haircut by 3 Hairdressers at Once (First Attempt)
Year: 2010
Material: HD video
Time: 33 minutes and 23 seconds
Hairdressers: Trent Holder, Dao Van, Jennifer Kim
Camera: Darryl Augustine
Sound recording: David Ottier
Produced by YYZ Artists' Outlet as part of its YYreZidency programme.
note: When I walked around the city, I found that there were many different hair salons and I wondered what would happened if I invited several hairdressers, with different backgrounds, to cut my hair together.
2
Title: I spend Time in a Park Until the Jell-O Chilled out.
Year: 2010
Material: digital print
Size: 16 x 20 inch (set of 2 images)
Produced by YYZ Artists' Outlet as part of its YYreZidency programme.
3
Title: Leave a Bucket and Pick up the Next Night
Year: 2010
Material: digital print
Size: 16 x 20 inch (set of 4 images)
Produced by YYZ Artists' Outlet as part of its YYreZidency programme.
note: I left a bucket outside by the last stop of the Queen west streetcar one night and picked it up the next night. I found there was snow inside it. On the way back to the gallery, the snow disappeared.
4
Title: Numbers of Possibility on Queen Street, December 12th, 2009
Year: 2010
Material: vinyl numbers on a wall
Size: variable according to installation
Produced by YYZ Artists' Outlet as part of its YYreZidency programme.
note: I walked on Queen Street from the west end to the east end. During the walk, I picked up phone numbers from lease and sale signs on storefronts.
5
Title: A Toilet Paper Flag
Year: 2010
Material: HDV video
Time: 40 seconds
Produced by YYZ Artists' Outlet as part of its YYreZidency programme.
note: I went to a rooftop to catch a wind by toilet paper and the toilet paper became a flag of the wind there.
Z gallery
6
Title: watch the water go away
Year: 2006
Time: 17 seconds
Material: HDV video, colour, sound
note: There was brand-new stove in the kitchen. When I dropped some water on it, it looked like cosmic phenomena.
7
Title: One Place to The Other, The Other to The One before (Shi Pai
Village in Guangzhou).
Year: 2009
Material: HD video, colour, sound, transportation bike, carton box, rope, wood
Time: 26 minutes
Bike operator: Qin Shifu
Camera: Xiong Xun
Camera assistant: Ruan Qihui
Camera bike operator: Zhou Shifu
Note: Event at Shi Pai Village, Guangzhou.
Date: 10/29/2009
Produced by Vitamin Creative Space
note: This work was shot in an urban village, Guangzhou. The traditional area, which developed organically with tiny alleys and buildings, will disappear within a few years because of urban gentrification. A self-employed courier was asked to bring many empty boxes from one gate to the other gate then back to the original gate.
8
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.
9
Title: Beer Factory, Bottle of Beer
Year: 2007
Material: DVD, colour, sound
Time: 27 minutes and 21 seconds
Sponsor: Sapporo Beer
note: I had a show at the museum located at Ebisu, which used to be a beer factory. The beer called YEBISU it is made now by the Sapporo Beer company. It is the process of how a bottle of beer is made.
10
Title: Take an orange and throw it away without thinking too much
Year: 2006
Material: DVD, colour, sound
Time: 7 minutes and 12 seconds
Credit: created in the residency programme at Le Pavillon, art research laboratory of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
note: On the occasion of a one-day solo project at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, I made this installation with fresh oranges. I bought many oranges from the farmers’ market in front of Palais and threw all of them into the staircase between Palais and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris to capture an image of how oranges fall.
