Red Carpet in Koganecho, video compilation
Video Installation
Red Carpet in Koganecho, video compilation
This is a compilation of several time lapse videos and other footage from some "red carpet" events, I instigated in the Koganecho area. The mere act of rolling carpet on an ordinary city street immediately creates an impromptu and surreal participatory performance space.
The location was on the street outside of my then dwelling, a tiny narrow, two story space, of about two metres wide within a tenement of other such spaces.
The carpet is some 90m long. The bold gesture commands attention and also evoked people to interact or reassess the location and their own physical presence in relation. It also calls attention to the areas past and the women who once inhabited such spaces. The scale also borders on a kind of land art in conversation with the environment itself.
(Special thanks to everyone who participated including the Hyenas cosplay group pictured)
