Basic Theme

• the concept of freedom and its signs
  

Actual Theme

• the approach in relation to the "territory"
• the approach in relation to the form of the artist
  

Three Fundamental Works for Two Actual Themes

• Around Your Eyes
• JYUNZOU
• unlimited freedom
  
  
  

This is a performance/installation work in which everything in the artist's own room are moved to the gallery and perfectly reconstructed in it. And also he lives in it during the period of the exhibition. The picture below shows you an image of this work's configuration.

In this work he regards the relationship between himself and his own room in his house as a 'territory'. The 'territory' determines all things in his room how they are located and arranged and then 'my room' is formed. So It is possible to think that the 'my room' is made not by the owner but by the effect of the 'territory'. From such a point of view, there is no subject to create the ‘my room'.

The 'my room data' can show you an indication of the 'territory' which existed between himself and his original room in his house. This 'territory' is eroded and dismantled as soon as his room and himself moved to the gallery that is public space and immediately new 'territory' is emerged. There are a 'territory' between himself and his room, a 'territory' between himself and his room at the gallery, a 'territory' between all things including an audience in the gallery, a 'territory' that is produced by the system of the university that is used as the gallery at this time and a ‘territory' between himself as an artist and the whole system of exhibition or work because he also act as an artist even at night in the tent that is placed at the gallery as part of this installation and used by him for sleep, toilet, relax etc, which the audience cannot see directly. Main aim of this work is to recognize that there are many ‘territories‘, and they are not able to touch each other, not able to be mixed each other and also they exist simultaneously and in parallel.

>> My Room Data

This is a performance work at the show in London and Nottingham, UK. In this performance several music videos for a best-seller during 3rd week on Feb. 2006 are used. While the image of these videos are projected on the screen, two performers, one of them is the artist himself and the other is an British audience the artist asked to participate in it, are listening the sound which come form those videos and copied it immediately by uttering voices. When they are performing their faces and heads are covered by masks to separate them form the audience.

One feature of this performance is a separation of the performers from the audience. By doing so there is no interaction between them. It means that the audience can keep a freedom about their own view and it also works to focus on how 'territory' is not able to contact each other. I think that a problem of a style of live performance without regard to its type is that in such a circumstance an audience is forced to be under special atmosphere in which the initiative is held by the artist performing. In this situation the audience cannot have the own view as an active one and their freedom are confined unconsciously. I would like such a field of performance to be more open to people participating in it.

In this work the performers are under each separate 'territory' with listening to the sound from each of their headphones with masks. But from the viewpoint of the audience their mess voices are linked to the visual of the music videos projected behind them. Although performers' actions and the images of the videos are essentially under different 'territories', an effect of a new 'territory' emerging on the audience's position makes them into apparent one whole thing. I intended to describe and recognize that many parts in one whole thing are actually belonging to each separate ‘territory' while they constitutes one 'territory'. And I also tried to focus on something like traversing and comparing under other level territories, such as “English-Japanese”, ”an ordinary person-a star”, “image-body”, “record-live”, “high culture-MASS culture”.