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Rite/Right Compositions, 2012-2013
Water circulating system, aluminium, water, rocks
An installation on the stage at Esplanade park in Helsinki consists of two-channel slide shows, maps, and a table-top rock garden with pebbles gathered from different places, islands and continents. At the situation, viewers hear the sound of trickling water blending with the ambient sound of the city. Based on the cityscape of Kyoto, this work looks at an enormous number of symbolic sites in the city such as temples, shrines, churches, mausoleums and gardens. Taking the structure of the ancient city, Heiankyo*, as the departure point, its proportionally enlarged area was turned into the work (see map). Despite the variations in architectural styles, religious contexts, sacredness, aesthetics and stories attached to these sites, they are seen together in terms of compositions sharing the presence of stones, the performativity of rites, and the sense of appropriations. In this work, the confines of compositions are highlighted and blurred at the same time. The images of sites are mixed and synchronized into the slide show, and the overall constellation of the sites are transferred to the composition of a “garden” on the table. The course of time is strayed by the elements of ecology. The overflowing water accompanied here, for instance, may response to the rich water sources within the city, which have been greatly beneficial, yet have caused great floods over the history. With multiple entry points, the work opens and studies the interplay of stillness and movement, and physicality and intangibility –subtle relations of what is given and what is created and maintained around the compositions. *Heiankyo was established in 794AD, which is thought to have been built with geomantic concepts, Shijinsoō, which corresponds with the particular geography of Kyoto basin.
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