I seek to reconfigure familiar notion of
space in such a way that the viewer
is drawn
in to questioning his or her experience
of
it. This video installation is
a kind of slide show of short movie
clips, which consists of two side
by
side projections slowly fading
in and
out simultaneously. Half of the screen
shows a scene in Japan and the
other
half shows one in Germany, and
they
create a landscape that looks continuous
owing to the integrated compositions and
events: rain starts at the
same
time, a river flows across the
border,
and so on. The theme is
distance
and communication. How can we bridge
over
physical and psychological distance?
Can our imagination overcome physical
limitations? What kind of communication
would be possible between people who
live
in different worlds that have different
environments,
social systems, and cultures? How
can
we create space for negotiation in
between
conflicting value systems? This
work
is a process of searching answer for
these questions. |