Yuta Hirai “Biocracy”

Kitakore Building

Finished

Artists

Yuta Hirai

The title of this exhibition is taken from Hirai’s same-titled book, which may be considered a compilation of his work. Comprised of over 36 interviews with politicians, cultural figures, activists and even children born on March 11, 2011, the book fundamentally questions post-3.11 society through these conversations. As a sentence embodying the work as well as the attitude he obtained by facing Fukushima’s nature, Hirai says, “bio” is “life” and “-cracy” means “domination” or “political system.” In other words, translated literally, “Biocracy” means ‘life-ism.’ It is of course beyond capitalism that values the economy over life and causes wars, and also beyond the current “democracy” (minshu-shugi). Humans are being allowed to co-exist with all life on the planet in the first place. How presumptuous of an attitude it is to say that the ‘people’ (min) are the ‘lord’ (shu).”

Schedule

Nov 22 (Tue) 2016-Dec 24 (Sat) 2016