Actions 2020 part two
Video Installation
Actions 2020, part two, performance/video, various lengths
I created this “Actions” video series in 2020 and exhibited it in the Koganecho Bazaar of the same year in conjunction with the Yokohama Triennale. The videos were inspired by the laborious task of having to move all of my belongings from my Koganecho studio and living space to a new apartment.
As the apartment was close by, the whole moving process was completed by walking and transporting everything on the street.
It was also during the early, uncertain phase of the isolating Corona virus pandemic, with a state of emergency being called across many cities in Japan. I felt that my actions, moving all manner of furniture, unique and strange items, accumulated through my artistic practice, as well as completing daily errands, such as going to the coin laundry, the local bathhouse, eating out, or exercising, became a kind of street art performance that I tried to convey through these videos. Each video is of varying length and focuses on a repetitive “action”.
They also beckon the viewer to reexamine changing attitudes towards shared facilities and spaces and what it means to be dependent on their use under pandemic conditions.
