Summer August 5, 2019

Cicada dies as its arm crossed,
Serene blue afternoon,
At the end of summer, still boiling hot


蝉があお向けに
腕を交差して死んでいる
静かで、厳かで、まだ暑い夏





Window Scape July 18, 2019

This is a beginning of speculation on Window Display that I have long been involved in.

For complete text, please go to Window Scape – About ‘In between space’ (EN)

しばらく関わっていたウィンドウディスプレイについての考えをまとめた文章。まずは最初の断片。

Window Scape – In between spaceについて (JP)はこちらから





Forum do Futuro 2018 in Porto December 1, 2018
Before Tania Bruguera’s lecture, Forum do Futuro 2018

ポルトガルはポルトで行われたForum do Futuro（フォーラム・ド・フトゥーロ）というイベントに参加。哲学者、アーティスト、建築家、パフォーマーなど、多岐にわたる現代芸術の作り手をよんで１週間に渡って市民とともに語り尽くすというもの。そのきっかけとその様子。

Forum do Futuro 2018 に参加しにポルトまで (Japanese only): materiaprima.site/forum-do-futuro-2018/

It was when I visited Porto in the summer of 2018 for holiday that I learned about the event called Forum do Futuro. I got to know about it from Guillerme, in charge of cultural affairs in Porto as well as organizer of event, and I participated in the small lecture by contemporary artist Tania Bruguera that summer.

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Aubergine August 1, 2018

Being different from others is sometimes not easy – people look at me and talk about me. That is how people get to understand what the diversity is.
 

他と違うっていうのは、なかなか簡単じゃないよ。じろじろ見られたり、やたらと話題にあがったり。でもみんなそうやって多様性を学んでいくんだよね。





Noh lands in Epidaurus October 1, 2017

2015年の夏、ギリシャは経済危機の真っただ中だった。同じ夏、観世流の能楽師になった大学時代の友人、正確にはその一門がギリシャの世界最古の劇場で日本の能を舞うというので、東西の演劇人の情熱に引っ張られて混乱のギリシャに乗り込んだ。招聘先のギリシャ人の演出家によると、能は西欧演劇が失った「見えないものとの交信」を今でも実践しているというのだ。

「エピダウロスの夏」(Japanese only): materiaprima.site/noh-in-epidaurus/

Back in 2015, the Greece was in confusion. EU announced the critical economic crisis of this country and mentioned that they can ‘no longer support’. Meanwhile, I went to see the Athens Epidaurus Art Festival in Greece same year, the one of the oldest art festivals taken place every summer. 

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Eiji Oyamatsu: Maria to be completed after 50 years January 15, 2017
Mary and Jesus by Eiji Oyamatsu (2015)

彫刻家、親松英治が50年をかけて取り組んだ木彫のマリア像は全長10メートルにも及ぶ。35歳の時に人生をかけて取り組めるものを、という思いから作り始めた彫刻がもうすぐ完成ということでアトリエを訪問。行き先なんて想定せず、作り上げた彫刻の設置先が決まろうとしていた。

「親松英治：50年越しのマリア」(Japanese Only): https://materiaprima.site/eiji-oyamatsu/

Eiji Oyamatsu, sculptor of 81 years old (in 2015) is about to finish his lifelong works – the wooden sculpture of Virgin Mary. Being Catholic himself, he had determined to make the works of his life time when he was a young sculptor of 35 years old. Ever since, Oyamatsu had spent time and resource to buy the piece of wood to complete this sculpture without knowing where to install after completed.

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