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Dé sign 1" Kunren" (1990) 8min/colour/VTR

映像：VISUAL BRAINS , サウンド：松村利起 (Toshi Matsumura)

The word "Kunren" literary means "Rehearsal". Rehearsal.......for what? For the evacuation when the Big Earthquake does strike? Or for the exploitation of the situation surrounding the Emprerior's death ? Or for the exploitation of realms unknown to the statesmen of Japan Inc? And so much ado about nothing goes on.

国立国際美術館、ICCインターコミュニケーションセンター収蔵

 

 

 

 

 


Dé sign 2" 5-7-5 Hi-Cook" (1991) 11min/colour/VTR

映像：VISUAL BRAINS , サウンド：松村利起 (Toshi Matsumura) , 出演：平山誠(Makoto Hirayama)

5-7-5のリズムは我々にとっては馴染み深いものだ。日本では伝統的な俳句だけでなく、広告や道路標識などにも用いられている。5-7-5のキャッチーなリズム、そしてこのサラリーマンは、リズムにつかまえられます…しかし、彼は本当にリズムにつかまっているのか?

5-7-5 is a rhythm familiarly with us ordinary folks(?) In Japan as it appears not only in traditional Haiku-poems, but also in ad-campaigns, popular provers, roadside messages from the police(wow) et al. 5-7-5 is a catchy rhythm, and that is why this salaried man of bz bz buzzing Japan Inc, is caught incessantly in it ......But is he really caught in it ?

 


 

国立国際美術館、ICCインターコミュニケーションセンター収蔵

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Dé sign 3" STAND:DRIFT" (1992) 19min/colour/VTR

映像：VISUAL BRAINS , サウンド：CHUNK/松村利起 (Toshi Matsumura) ,

スタンドとは文字通り「立ち上がること」、ドリフトとは「流されること」。この二つの単語を人間に当てはめてみると「Stand=意志を持って立ち上がること」　「Drift=無意志・無自覚」となる。

Literary ”STAND”means to keep an upright position on the feet and "DRIFT" means to be carried by current. Apply these two words to our lives. "In standing condition" , we have our own will . "In drifting condition " , we don't need our opinion because of depending on others . And these 2 conditions aren't opponents one another . The Gulf War appeared on TV for 3 months from Jan 1991. And almost everyone went back and forth between 2 conditions "Stand" and "Drift" , common experience, isn't it ?!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Dé sign 4" CYCLE : RECYCLE" (1993) 10min/colour/VTR

映像：VISUAL BRAINS , サウンド：高橋克行(Katsuyuki Takahashi)/松村利起 (Toshi Matsumura) , 出演：高橋克行　他

「サイクル・リサイクル」は単にゴミや資源のリサイクル運動に止まらず、宇宙規模のサイクルと日本を含めた世界経済のサイクルとの対比、更に現代日本のリサイクル運動の安っぽさという様々な方向から制作されています。いったい、我々はどこへむかっていくのでしょうか？

The concept of this work, "CYCLE RECYCLE", not only means particular movement in out society such as "recycling of litter or natural resources", but also symbolizes a circular movement on the cosmic scale. For example , every being and spirit, including the human race, is on the same circular movement in terms of the philosophy of metemsychosis. From this point of view, you will begin to perceive many signs in various ways , such as "Human-Recycle movemnt of individuals who are swallowed by the world's , or Japanese perhaps economic cycle" and "physical recycle movement in our life cycle such as the live organ transplant". And one question arises: "If so , how will we , the human race be from now? "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Dé sign 5" INSIDE : OUTSIDE" (1994) 10min/colour/VTR

映像：VISUAL BRAINS , サウンド：クリストフ・シャルル、松村利起 , 出演：ダニエル・クラーク

「日本の中と外との関係」を6年ぶりに帰国したダニエルの眼を通して描く。「日本人は皆同じ」に見え、また「世界と日本」を考えるとき、「日本と日本以外のすべての場所」と思えるほど、日本は特殊なインサイドで固めた国なのである。

This Year, we portrayed "the relation between the inside and outside of JAPAN" , through the eye of Daniel, son of an anglo-Japanese couple, friend of ours, who had returned to Japan after 6 years living abroad. From the point of view of an individualistic multi-racial country unlike Japan, this country always seem to be "uniformed", in other words , "a mass of non-characteristic innocents." In the context of "Japan and the world" , it becomes even clearer that Japan is indeed a popular country forged from its inside so that one might be inclined to distinguish "Japan from The Others".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Dé sign 6" ACTIVE FAULT(活断層)" (1995) 12min/colour/VTR

映像：VISUAL BRAINS , サウンド：松村利起

デフォルトとは、コンピュータ用語でお馴染みの初期設定のことで、フォルトとは地質学用語で断層を指す。もし現代社会をデフォルトしようとするエネルギーが断層の活動だとすれば、我々個々の意識が断層に作用しているという仮説がなりたつ。我々個々の存在自体が現代社会の「活断層」といえるかもしれない。

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Dé sign 7" ARMAGEDDON" (1996) 10min/colour/VTR

映像：VISUAL BRAINS , サウンド：松村利起(Toshi Matsumura),高橋克行(Katsuyuki Takahashi)

若者が精神世界を求めてオウムに走った、瞑想により大いなる自己と出会うために。だが、世界的なパラダイムシフトである「物質世界から精神世界へのシフト」を日本においてますます遅らせる結果となった。

The young feverishly pursued the Zen world of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult in order to attain a higher self by meditation.The international paradigm shift from the material world to the spiritual world has been delayed in Japan even further . Perhaps religious cults serve as "healing forests". With the pressent "Armageddon war between the material and the spiritual" the co-existance of the internet and religious cults is striking.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Dé sign 8" NEW MIND" (1997) 10min/colour/VTR

映像：VISUAL BRAINS , サウンド：松村利起(Toshi Matsumura),高橋克行(Katsuyuki Takahashi),PAMELA Z, L.SONAMI, D.SWEARINGEN

New mind is the era we are all now living.