２０１１年の震災では日常に非日常が入り込み、今までと同じプロセスを続けることに疑問を持ち、しばらく新作を作り続けていました。最近（おそろしいことに）また非日常が日常だと感じられるようになり、新しいアプローチを加えつつ、このシリーズの制作を再開したいと思っています。みなさまのご理解とご協力をいただけますようお願いいたします。
In this series of work, I'm exploring the idea of old age as a future continuation of everyday life. In 2011, there was an earthquake in Japan, and I felt that everyday life was gone for a while. I wanted to make different work for a while. Recently, I feel a sense of everyday life returning, which is scary because the cause of fear is still there, but I got used to it, just as one gets used to other dreadful things. But now I would like to re-start this series, including new approaches. I would appreciate if you could help me out on this project again.
Quote from “Moments
of Crisis” by Gil Caroz
Crisis has a relation to time. Hanna Arendt speaks
of crisis as a conflictual point of encounter between the past and the future. This
point is not the present. It is to be understood rather as a breach in time
that arises when the tradition that, until then, had framed the real disappears
and when the new symbolic coordinates of the future are not yet known. The
subject must thus play his hand faced with the real that rushes into this void
created in the interval between two symbolic systems.
…a definition that Jacques-Alain Miller gave in an
interview for the magazine Marianne in 2008, on the economic crisis. “There is a crisis in the
psychoanalytic sense when discourse, words, figures, rites, routine, the whole
symbolic apparatus, is suddenly found to be powerless in tempering an unruly
real. A crisis is the real unchained, impossible to master. It is the
equivalent, in civilisation, of those storms that periodically come to remind
the human species of their lack of security and fundamental debility”. The precipitation of events is not limited to a simple
acceleration on a timeline. Up to the minute technologies produce a sort of
contraction of time and space. With simple means like Skype or Facebook
distances are abolished and the time taken is reduced to immediacy. Hardly has
an event occurred and already the next one sticks its nose over the horizon.
The pattern routine-crisis-routine has been replaced by the series
crisis-crisis-crisis… which tends towards the infinite.
The passage between the instant of the seeing and the moment to conclude is often
immediate, short-circuiting the time to understand.
In these conditions the world no longer
corresponds to Hanna Arendt’s thesis. It is no longer a matter of a conflict between the past
and the future whose pressure the subject is submitted to. The timeline is
constantly caught hold of by a real in a succession of moments of crises
without respite. Hardly has a symbolic system been established, and it falters
to give place to another. The Arab Spring already seems like ancient history.
It was only a little over three years ago. This uprising spread like wildfire
in a series of countries, supported by the social network. In a short time, we
have seen tyrants fall from their thrones and judged, condemned, with or
without trial, with everything broadcast in real time around the world. Since
that time, we have not yet seen a new order establish itself in these
countries. One crisis succeeds another.
