Sudden View
Year: 2019
Material/Technique: Sound
Edition: Unique
Signed:Not Included
About the Work
- Year
- 2019
- Material/Technique
- Sound
- Edition
- Unique
- Signed
- Not Included
- Frame
- Not Set
- Work Certificate
- Not Set
- Category
- Installation
- Style
- Conceptual
Work Details
More than a dozen cars are arranged loosely across a school playground. Each vehicle sounds its horn one at a time, triggered by signals from a central computer. What first seems like mere noise gradually begins to take shape as musical notes, eventually forming a single song.
The song being played is “Ue o Muite Arukō” (“Sukiyaki”). Although it is a song about walking alone in solitude, it is also a song known by many people. The sight of cars gathered on the playground overlaps with scenes of emergency evacuation sites or images seen in news reports. To listen to this song together in such a setting, and for the people of Ibaraki to share that experience in advance, seemed to me like a kind of emotional evacuation drill—something that might help people begin to rise again from a moment of despair if an actual emergency were to occur.
Artist
artist
Born in 1984 in Toyama. Based in Osaka.
Graduated from Kyoto City University of Art Graduate School of Fine Arts, M.A Sculpture in 2010
2023 Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts GAP Research Student
Based on sculpture, she creates works on the subject of relationships with things that cannot be controlled, such as social systems, the environment, and accidental events.
Major solo exhibitions include “HUB IBARAKI ART PROJECT 2018-2019” (Ibaraki City, 2019), “It's Beautiful” (Higashiosaka Civic Art Center, 2019), “Tag” (Punt Wg/ Amsterdam, 2023), and “No Itching” (Vargas Museum/Manila, 2024).
Major grants and training include Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation Overseas Training Program (New York, 2017), Agency for Cultural Affairs Emerging Artist Overseas Training Program (Manila, 2023), Pola Art Foundation International Exchange Grant (2024), International Exchange Fund Manila Branch Grant (2024), and Agency for Cultural Affairs Creation Support Program (2025).
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