優秀賞Excellence Award
めぐるデスカフェ大洗
- 映像 / video
- 5:50 minutes
「循環経済の父」と呼ばれる日本生まれのウィリアム・マクダナー氏は、幼少期に広島の原爆跡地を訪れ、なぜ人々が殺し合うのかに疑問を持ち、人と人との平和な関係を模索するところからキャリアを始め、やがてその眼差しを人と自然との関係性に拡張するなかで循環経済の基となる概念を構築した。人間社会における循環とは、人と自然、人と人との平和的な関係性のデザインだ。気候危機や戦争など、人を望まない形で死に近づけないようにするための相互的な努力だ。しかしそもそも、物質としての私たちは死後も世界を循環し続ける存在であり、そこに決して「終わり」はない。循環という概念は、生と死の境界を溶解する。この生死をめぐる「あいだ」の地平を「平和」と呼び、その連なりを「循環」と呼ぶのなら、人間中心を超えた多種世界には最初から「平和」がある。「めぐるデスカフェ大洗」は、その平和的な世界を疑似体験するためのパフォーマンス作品だ。
Japan-born William McDonough, known as the "Father of the Circular Economy," visited the site of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima when he was a child, and questioned why people kill each other. He commenced his career by searching for peaceful relations among people, and finally created the concepts that would form the basis for the circular economy, while expanding his perspective of the relationship between people and nature. Circularity in human society denotes the design of peaceful relationships not only among people, but also between people and nature. Mutual effort is required to prevent people from approaching death in an undesirable form, such as from climate crisis or war. However, in the first place, even after our death, we will continue to circulate in the world as material, and there is certainly no "end." The concept of circulation dissolves the boundary between life and death. If the horizon "between" life and death be referred to as "peace," and a series of this as "circulation," the multi-species worlds beyond anthropocentrism have had "peace" from the beginning. "Meguru Death Café Ōarai" is a performance work that offers a pseudo-experience of this peaceful world.
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COPEN
水野渚と加藤佑によるアーティストユニット。身体的体験を重視するパフォーマンスやインスタレーションを通じて人と人、人と自然との平和的な関わりを模索する作品制作に従事。過去作品にはコロナ禍に実施した世界4ヶ国のアーティストとのオンライン共同生活「Virtual Shared House」及びそのアーカイブ展示「What makes a home a home」などがある。
An artist unit consisting of Mizuno Nagisa and Katō Yū. Engages in creating works that search for peaceful relations among people, and between people and nature, through performances and installations that emphasize physical experiences. Past works include "Virtual Shared House," an online shared life with artists across four countries, which was held during the COVID-19 pandemic, and "What makes a home a home," an archival exhibition arising from it.