Hopeful monster
2018
Nominated to Helen Hamlyn Design Awards in Health Care
2018
Exhibited work at RCA Show 2018 - Selected works
2018
Media "White city Place" in London
2019
Exhibited at AnyTokyo2019 in Tokyo
民俗学より恐怖の概念を翻訳し日本文化の中で具象化された媒体としての「妖怪」に着目。現代社会の不条理・恐怖を考察し具象化したパフォーマンスインスタレーション。
女性が嫉妬から蜘蛛へと変身させられるギリシャ神話上の生物を土台とし、ダナ・ハラウェイの「サイボーグフェミニズム」を再探求。キメラ化された妖怪が、解放をもとめる被抑圧者の存在について考える機会を与える。
あなたの日常風景の中に潜む違和感に生命を与えると、それはどのような形になるだろうか？
ポップな媒体で親近と敬遠を合わせた異質さ持ち、膨張と弛緩を繰り返す恐怖を示す。加速度センサを着脱可能な作品前部の中に仕込み、身体の座標軸の傾きによって象徴化された“妖怪”が連動し変化する
If you give a life form the physical quality of your anxiety and fear in daily life, what does it look like?
Fear has an ephemeral, intangible quality, and while it remains so, it is difficult to face, to abstract, and ultimately to overcome. So the Japanese people developed a way of representing their fears as personified monsters - the Yokai. I have modernized the Yokai theme, creating an inflatable Yokai costume, which represents women’s contemporary fears, and which forms the basis of an immersive performance. As a woman of this demographic, anxiety around sexual identity, fertility and women’s role in society, has directly affected me and inspired this project.
The form of my Yokai was based on that derived from the Greek story of the woman who had been turned into an insect by Zeus. That to me, expresses the difficult position of modern women. Inspiration also came from Cyborg Manifesto (1990) by Donna Haraway, “Our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.”
Fear has an ephemeral, intangible quality, and while it remains so, it is difficult to face, to abstract, and ultimately to overcome. So the Japanese people developed a way of representing their fears as personified monsters - the Yokai. I have modernized the Yokai theme, creating an inflatable Yokai costume, which represents women’s contemporary fears, and which forms the basis of an immersive performance. As a woman of this demographic, anxiety around sexual identity, fertility and women’s role in society, has directly affected me and inspired this project.
The form of my Yokai was based on that derived from the Greek story of the woman who had been turned into an insect by Zeus. That to me, expresses the difficult position of modern women. Inspiration also came from Cyborg Manifesto (1990) by Donna Haraway, “Our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.”
