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社会は夢の共同体

Society is Community of Dream

2019

video installation, 16 min 26 sec

Tell The Invisible

 

In this works, a friend with a mental illness is asked to talk about his experience with auditory hallucinations.

He starts talking about how he heard an auditory hallucination from a speaker in a convenience store. Then, a dialogue takes place between he and myself, with he and I giving shape to the images that emerge from the content of the conversation, each time using our hands to shape the clay. 

 

Our voices echo through the speakers in the space. However, at his wish, his figure is removed and his voice is overwritten by noisy electronic sounds. As a result, only my own words are heard in space. As a result, only my own words echo in the space, and the viewer is forced to look into the subtitles of the video projected on the box garden in order to read his voice. The installation is not a dialogue, but rather a monologue of my own. The dialogue between the invisible he and myself was as if I myself were listening to an auditory hallucination.

この作品は、ある精神疾患を抱えた友人に、見えないものについて経験したことを語ってもらう。

彼は「コンビニのスピーカーから幻聴を聞いた」という話をポツポツと話し出す。そして、話の内容から浮かび上がるイメージを、その都度粘土に手で形を与えながら、私と彼の対話が行われる。​

 

空間にあるスピーカーからは二人の声が空間に響き渡る。しかし、彼の希望により、彼の姿は映し出さず、彼の肉声はノイズのような電子音に上書きされた音声となっている。結果的に、私自身の言葉だけが空間に響き、鑑賞者は彼の声を読み取るために、箱庭に映し出された映像の字幕を覗き込むことになる。そのインスタレーションの様子は、対話ではなく私の独り言の様に映る。見えない彼と私との対話は、私自身が幻聴を聞いているかのようだった。​​​​

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Untouchable

22 Feb - 10 Mar, 2019

Kitasenjyu BUoY 2F gallery | Tokyo, JPN

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