"Trace Trip,Time Capsule T.Y. "
Trace Trip , Time Capsule ( T.Y.) #01 -multiple exposure- / photocopied photos
Photo: OMOTE Nobutada
Trace Trip, Time Capsule was based on a friend’s recollections, photo albums and associated objects (cameras, scale models). The work was created by tracing memories by interviewing the friend, researching old photographs and recollections, visiting scenes of events, and drawing images from the Internet. In the process, perceptions shaped by the wanderings to and fro between recorded fact and recollections, and between imagination and fantasy, once again relapsed into uncertainty, and were expressed in the work as narratives reconstructed and reinterpreted from memory. The work was also an attempt to question the sense of artificiality the artist felt toward reality following the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, a response to the anxiety felt for an uncertain future, and an attempt to transform the photographs and objects into a work of art that preserves memories in the form of time capsules with possible uses for the “next something.”Osaki was inspired to create the work when the 2011 earthquake and tsunami prompted fresh thoughts on the Tokai Earthquake, which has been anticipated from about 10 years ago in the Tokai region of Japan, where he currently lives. The Tokai Earthquake, thought to have an 88-percent likelihood of occurrence within the next 30 years, is anticipated to be equal to or even more powerful than the Great East Japan Earthquake. Media broadcasts of the destructive power of the Great East Japan Earthquake—houses crushed to pieces by the tsunami, people looking for washed-away photo albums, and volunteers restoring recovered photographs—inspired Osaki to make his friend’s recollections into a work of art that prompts thoughts on the issues and phenomena relevant to the “next something” that could affect himself and others living in the Tokai region. Osaki approached the task of reflecting on a mega-quake, an insurmountable natural phenomenon, by sublimating, and thereby preserving, personal recollections into a paradigm represented by the artwork. That the work consists of multiple pieces embodies the idea of diversified time capsules kept in readiness for whatever the future has in store.
The method of using a friend’s photo albums and interviews as points of departure involved meandering through an unmapped process of researching, and of compiling the research into a work. When records and recollections were traced, gathered and made to inform an artwork, the process inevitably picks up elements of fiction on the way.
友人の記憶やアルバム写真、それらに関連する物（カメラやミニチュア）などを通して制作された「Trace Trip, Time capsule」。このシリーズは友人へのインタビュー、昔の写真や記憶を元にリサーチを行い、現地に訪れたり、イメージを引用したりしながら記憶を「トレース」するという方法で制作されています。記録と記憶、想像や妄想を行き来しながら紡ぐイメージは再び不確かなものへと回帰し、記憶を再構築、再解釈した物語として表現されます。震災以降、私たちの置かれた未来の「わからない」状況に対する不安感、しかしながらこれら写真や物を通して作品として「記憶」を残すことが「次の何か」の為のタイムカプセルとして機能しえないか、といった試みでもあります。
震災以降、大崎は住まいや関係のある東海地方や関西地方で予見されている「東海地震」「南海地震」について改めて考えさせられ、本作品の制作に至りました。この「東海・南海地震」とは2011年に見舞われた東日本大震災と同じ規模かそれ以上の規模であり、今後３０年以内に起こる確立が非常に高いと予見されている地震であります。報道された東日本大震災の破壊力、津波で粉砕する家屋、流されたアルバムを探す人々、それらの写真を復元するボランティア。こういった報道から自身の住む地域にも起こりうる「次の何か」の為に友人の「記憶」を制作することでこの問題や事象について考えています。
太刀打ちの出来ない事象について考えること。大崎は個々のパーソナルな「記憶」をアートというパラダイムに昇華し「残す」試みとして、また作品がマルチプル・エディションにより、作品を分散させることで「来たるべき未来のための」タイムカプセルをとして機能させる試みといったコンセプトで制作されています。
（個展「T」galerie 16 / 展覧会プレスリリースより、2013年）
Trace Trip , Time Capsule ( T.Y.) #01 -multiple exposure- 2013
Installation
video, LCD screen, photocopied photos, camera
Trace Trip, Time Capsule ( T.Y.) #03 -Day trip- 2013
Installation
video, projector,side mirror, photocopied photos, minicar, photograph
Trace Trip ( T.Y.) #03-01 2013
52×72cm, photograph
Trace Trip ( T.Y.) #02-02 2013
photograph
Trace Trip , Time Capsule ( T.Y.) #02 - Oki・Matsue- 2013
70×135×22cm, drawing, photographs, photocopied photos, agates, board
Trace Trip ( T.Y.) #02-01 2013
photograph
Trace Trip( T.Y.) #02 (drawing) / Trace Trip( T.Y.) #03 (drawing) 2013
drawing, photograph, collage on paper
Trace Trip ( T.Y.) #02-01 / Trace Trip ( T.Y.) #03-02 2013
72×92cm, photograph, agates, frame / photograph, minicar, branch, frame
courtesy of MIKIKO SATO GALLERY
Copied from the photograph of T.Y.'s album
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