My grandmother lost her sight because of cataracts and currently live in nursery house. “GRANDMA” is a multi-media installation art that deals with the relationship between my grand mother, my mother and myself and how that has been shifted due to her blindness. 12min long video is composed of a various different kinds of visual/audio from day-to-day conversation to home video recorded in late 90s.
The video is projected in a white cube space which resembles the shape of my grandma’s nursery home’s room, and the audience are invited to step in to the space and have a seat to get full experience. The paradox is, once they decided to engage with the piece, their body will distract projection image, which forces them to have unexpectedly immersive experience.
A pile of white roses made out of paper is a representation of my grandma’s decreasing interest in her life. Rose is her favorite flower; yet, it doesn’t have color anymore and even if they piled up on the floor, it will never hit her eyes.
二年前に白内障が原因で失明し、現在老人ホームに入居している祖母。それを機に移り変わった祖母、母、そして私の三者の関係性を考えるマルチメディアインスタレーションアートである。12分の映像作品には老人ホームでの日々の会話等の他愛のないものから、90年台後半に撮影されたホームビデオの映像などを様々な要素を組み合わせた実験的なものである。
映像はプロジェクションとして半ホワイトキューブの壁に映し出され、観客は空間内に設置されている椅子に座りヘッドホンを付けることで、視覚・聴覚情報ともに完成された体験を得ることができる。空間内に着席するとプロジェクションのイメージが自らの身体によって遮られることによって、没入感を演出しつつもどこか不完全な空間を演出する狙いである。
紙でできた白いバラの塊は、視覚をうしなったことによって失われていく祖母の精気をイメージしたものだ。彼女の好きなバラは、渡したとしても彼女の目にうつることはない。赤でも、青でも、黄色でも、白でも、紙であってもあまり大差がない。
DEARBED is an autobiographical durational performance art that sheds light on the complexity of students' lives in the Tri-Co community(Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore College) by featuring their stories through the lens of the college bed. The project consists of a durational performance from 8pm on 4/7 to midnight on 4/8, along with an interactive, open exhibition in Founders Great Hall at Haverford College, incorporating monologues written by current college students. 21 beds are placed in the space and each pillow has a speaker in it. The audience can listen to different stories by laying down on the bed and put their ears on a pillow.
Sponsored by the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities and the E. Clyde Lutton 1966 Memorial Fund.
DEARBEDはベッドを通して遂行されるコミュニティーの集団的自叙伝の試みである。空間に21のベッドが配置され、枕一つずつにスピーカーが搭載されている。それぞれの枕から、学生のベッドに関するエピソードが聞こえ、観客はそれに対してエンゲージをする、しないの選択肢が与えられている。展示会は48時間連続で行われ、テーマはレイプ、うつ病、多食症など様々であった。
Sculpture made out of found objects that has been collected from street in West Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, it is culturally common to put furniture out on the street, so that they can get rid of their unwanted furniture.
Home as physical object seems very permanent; however, conceptually it is very fragile as we move from one house to another constantly. H/O/M/E is an attempt to capture this idea of permanently not permanent permanence inhabiting in our home— our life.
Paint
On March 28th, 2017, Philadelphia was raining all day long as if rain captures our communal emotion toward election result on March 27th. How grief occupying our community was indescribable; yet, at the same time, there was a group of people celebrating with the result out of sheer joy. On that day in the politically divided time, for some, that rain was tear of pain in their heart but for others it was a call to cherish the moment. And after all, rain is a reminder that our life and concern is just a peck of dust in the scale of this great universe. Let that set us free for now.
About human heart, blood and vessels.
Material: Steel and string
As it gets colder and winter comes, twigs drops because trees has a mechanism that stops sending nutrition then rather store those as fuel to survive through cold winter.
Materials: twigs on Haverford College campus