花などの生物界の自然淘汰も社会生活の中で起こる生存競争も、状況や環境は違っても生活に必要な資源をめぐって競争することは同じではないかと思い、ナイトアートという大勢の人が集まり、流れ動くこのイベントにパフォーマンスを行いました。
社会の膜の中で生きていることを表現し、その布から手と顔を出し絞っていきます。絞りたちが群がっていくにつれ、布がどんどん圧縮され中にいる作者は締め付けられ、動きがとりにくくなります。
パフォーマンスの最後には絞りによる群衆が作者を包み込み、それによって社会の中で活動していた個は埋没し、絞り終えるころにはもう外に出ることはできず、ただの群集の山になります。
I thought that natural selection in the biological world, such as flowers, and the competition for survival that occurs in social life are the same - competition for the resources necessary for life, even if the circumstances and environment are different - and I performed in this event of night art, where a large number of people gather and flow and move.
Expressing the idea of living within the membrane of society, the performers put their hands and faces out of the cloth and squeezed it. As the squeezers crowd together, the cloth becomes more and more compressed, constricting the artist inside and making it difficult for him to move.
At the end of the performance, the artist is enveloped by the crowd of squeezers, which buries the individual who was active in the society, and by the time the squeezing is finished, there is no way out and the artist is just a pile of the crowd.
photo: Uchida Kazuhiro
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