photo: SAIKI Taku
Good House, Nice Body: Those who built me and passed me by
| Artist | TAKAMINE Tadasu |
|---|---|
| Year | 2010 |
| Material/ Technique | projector, computer, speaker, found objects |
| Size/ Duration | dimensions variable |
| Copyright Notice | © TAKAMINE Tadasu |
| Year of acquisition/ donation | 2010 |
| Description | Born in Kagoshima, Japan in 1968. Lives and works in Akita. Takamine graduated in lacquer work from both the Craft Department of the Kyoto City University of Arts and later graduated from the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS). He began doing art performances in the early 1990s and worked with the multimedia performance group Dumb Type. Since then he has based his work on his own body and experience, dealing with such issues as ethnicity and gender and self and other and shedding light on the process of developing new relationships and opening up new possibilities for the future. He has experimented with diverse mediums and forms of art, including installation, video, photography, and performance. He has also produced and directed many stage works and carried out numerous collaborations with other artists. This work is a video installation completed by Takamine in collaboration with volunteer participants during a month-long period at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Ar t, Kanazawa. It is composed of a ‘house’ installation built with used materials gathered from old houses scheduled for demolition in the Kanazawa area and the video works projected inside it, weaving together the basic human themes of the house and the body in layers. The house, which contains the thick strata of time and memory left in it by its inhabitants, becomes a stage for the presentation of images of a nude body produced by a special technique. The body parts are seen pressed against glass and seem to glow. These images, which have a raw and mysterious appearance, are accompanied by sound and have a disturbing effect on the consciousness and senses of the viewer. |
NOTES
This Collection Data page contains the works and materials in the collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, as of April 1, 2018.
Artists are listed alphabetically by artist’s surname.
Works and materials by the same artists are listed according to the date of the work in principle.
Works whose dates are unidentified are listed at the end of each item. Some works are not listed according to the date of work due to their relations.
The data of works and materials are listed in order of title, production year, material/technique/form, dimensions, donor’s name, copyright holder and credit for photograph.
Dimensions are given by height (H) x width (W) in centimeters for plane work, and height (H) x width (W) x depth (D) in cm for 3-D work. Diameter (Ø) is used for circular work.
For the name of country or city, the name currently used in English is listed in principle.