再開

この作品の制作の根幹に日常の先にある未来としての老いの観念がありました。
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 The pattern routine-crisis-routine has been replaced by the series crisis-crisis-crisis which tends towards the infinite.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 Arendts 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.