Created with the grasp of hands, it began to deteriorate in the midst of formation. What would remain as its traces…  00-Scape (2014)

 

Created with the grasp of hands, it began to deteriorate in the midst of formation. What would remain as its traces…is an ongoing project that originated from my research in London. 

While living in London, I came across with curious objects, artifacts and people at museums, archives, city corners, or dinner parties. I collected the history and stories beneath the surface of things; I searched for concealed connections among them, and drew links between them using my research, memory, and imagination. These perplexing narratives were slowly woven into the work. 

Borrowing the style of novels, the work is presented in chapters at exhibitions. Words and storytelling form the primary expression while other media such as sculpture, photographs, moving images and sounds are also used. The work continues to expand in chapters until it comes to an inevitable end, where a book will be created. Unlike exhibitions, the book is independent from any fixed place and time, allowing individual readers to consume the work in their own pace and space.

<00-Scape> is the prologue of the project, and the conceptual platform where the chapters take place. 

The sculpture on the pedestal is created with clay and the 6000-year-old Jomon pots, both were taken from the same area in Aomori but 6000 years apart. The story of human and clay is played while the audiences looking at the sculpture.

 

 

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©YAMAMOTO Tadasu, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori Public University

Listen to the story of clay