芸術家・映画監督「園子温」による初の個展「ひそひそ星」が高円寺の「キタコレ ビル」にて開催されている。90年代初頭の東京の路上をゲリラでハックし続けた伝統的パフォーマンス集団「東京ガガガ」＿93年に書き下ろした「ひそひそ星」。日本一有名な待ち合わせ場所、渋谷のハチ公前広場の銅像・ハチ公の複製を量産し、待ち合わせ場所の攪乱を狙った「ハチ公プロジェクト」。
肩書きにこだわらない「芸術家・園子温」としての側面に焦点を当てて、「東京ガガガ」のアーカイブ、新作ハプニングアート「ハチ公プロジェクト」、そして、17年ぶりの自主制作映画として製作を終えて、来年の公開を持つ新作「ひそひそ星」のインスタレーション バージョン3作を展示している！詳しくはこちら！
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会場：キタコレ ビル（高円寺）
住所：東京都杉並区高円寺北3-4-13
So no one really stole Hachiko from it’s established patch in front of Shibuya Station. But you can still find the loyal dog in Koenji, where Chim↑Pom hold the first exhibition by this greatest troublemaker, Sono Sion, at Kita Kore Building’s GARTER GALLERY. The ramshackle building’s covered in protest banners which continue inside interior for the first large scale exhibition to take place at the artist run gallery.
Sono Sion is known as the most radical film director in Japan today and the active expressionist earning acclaim at international film festivals.
Sono has a unique and diverse background. He started his career as a poet and was described as “Sakutaro (Hagiwara) wearing a pair of jeans.” He later expanded his interest and activity to various categories: published a picture book for children, hosted the legendary performance collective “Tokyo Gagaga” and did guerrilla performance on streets in Tokyo in early 90s, formed a comic duo with Suidobashi Hakase, etc.
This exhibition will focus on “artist Sono Sion” and features three of his works: the archive of “Tokyo Gagaga,” a new happening artwork “Hachiko project,” and the video installation of his first independent film in seventeen years, “Whispering star” which is coming to theater in 2016 and which we believe to be one of his master pieces.
[Tokyo Gagaga / Hachiko project]In 1993 after Sono had finished writing “Whispering star,” he formed the performance collective “Tokyo Gagaga.” He started a guerrilla performance to commandeer streets in downtown every week as if he was launching a counterattack against the Japanese society running out of steam. Sono recalls the committed two-years that he was caught by the police every time he did the performance. His activity was quite experimental and had a similarity to the resistance movement “Reclaim the Streets” in Europe and avant-garde art movement such as Neo-Dada and Fluxus in ‘60s.
“Hachiko project” is derived from “Tokyo Gagaga.” Sono says he started “Tokyo Gagaga” after he saw the pedestrian scramble in front of Hachiko statue in Shibuya and wanted to carry off. Hachiko is the symbol of the meeting spot where people gather almost automatically and it became the important motif for him. This project aims to increase the number of meeting spots by installing Hachiko’s replicas, and the first place he installed the replica was the evacuation zone in Fukushima where connects “Whispering star” and “Tokyo Gagaga.”
Sono’s progress reflects social trends like a mirror: flaming on the Internet and the surveillance society grown in inverse proportion to the lost two decades of post-bubble, the society suffered from the devastating disaster and declining freedom of the press. However, not limited to such dystopia, Sono aggressively portrays people who strongly survive in difficult circumstances, with his sense of humor.
[Whispering star]“Whispering star” is the science fiction film that Sono wrote in 1990 and produced in 2015. Sono says he has a strong attachment to this film and would rather not show at the theater. He took time out of his busy schedule and dedicated himself to making this work. As you can see in the title, it depicted something we cannot speak loudly. Lines are cut to the minimum and dialogues are spoken in whispers even the movie is set in the outer space. Careful delineation of a common sight seen in daily life such as sound of turning the tap, florescent light and the like make this film calm and profound.
The stars on which main characters land was filmed in the evacuated zone in Fukushima and many people evacuated from the area played various roles in the movie.
At this exhibition, Sono will present the video installation using the limited scenes from the film. Whispering star, born as the answer to the established Japanese film industry and faltering Japanese society in ‘90s, will come up with the new reality in post-Fukushima and society losing the freedom of speech in 2015.