"on the ground" Exhibition

Calm & Punk Gallery

Finished

Artists

Hideaki Takahashi, Yuki Anai, UweHaas

A year and a half has gone by since 11th March 2011, yet we still haven’t brought the nuclear power plants back under control and we are still suffering difficulties and living with risks in our everyday lives.　However the issue is that we are getting accustomed to the feeling that, as we see, smell, hear and feel nothing in the air, we might be given back our normal lives as they were before 11.03.2011.

Thus, one cannot be sure of the real situation as long as the threat in the atmosphere is invisible and inaudible. One remembers a scene in a film by Akira Kurosawa in which a nuclear power plant explodes and the smog from the plant is shown changing into various colours caused by plutonium or cesium or other radioactive substances, and people are running about to try to escape from the coming cloud. I think one wouldn’t be so concerned about it, if it’s not perceptible through the senses like coloured smog.

Of course, we are all surrounded by not only radioactive but also tons of other invisible or inaudible materials. And I think we have this mutually: not only in Japan but worldwide. With this sound installation I have tried to describe this kind of invisible and inaudible phenomena and hope you will be able to percieve it sensorally.

Concept: Hideaki Takahashi
Sound produced by Hideaki Takahashi & Uwe Haas
Sound programmed by Hideaki Takahashi
Installation produced by Hideaki Takahashi, Yuki Anai
Sensor programming: Yuki Anai

Schedule

Dec 15 (Sat) 2012-Dec 19 (Wed) 2012