Follow the Shadow

​影をはらう

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Graduation Work for bachelor's degree

​多摩美術大学卒業制作作品

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2017

Tama Art University

Tokyo, Japan

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Performance

15 minutes

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Video: Kotaro Saito

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 This Performance is a literal action that I follow my own shadow by proceeding while moving my shadow with sand by my hand on the ground, based on a simple principle that my shadow moves as I move.
I followed the phenomenon that shadow, and at the same time I sandwiched my body between the ground reflecting my shadow and the light source that causes my shadows, the sun. The result of the action done to my shadow by myself was left at the site as a traces of sand, but it is fragile one enough to change or disappear with a wind or someone's foot. Throughout this performance with uncertain result, I represented not only the variability of the space caused by action, but also the universality of the space highlighted by the former.

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 Also I wore a small camera in order to make a point of view which close to my own field of vision in the recording of this performance. In addition to this, I set another camera away from the site. The video of small camera shows my hand moving my shadow with sand on the ground, and the other one shows my action from a distance. By recording with two deferent perspectives, I try to re-visualized the above concept of this performance.

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　作者自身の影を、本人が払いのけようとするパフォーマンス。作者は影という現象を追うと同時に、影を反映させる地面、そして影を引き起こす自分の身体との間に意識を挟み込んでいる。身体が影を追えば追うほど、両者の並行関係が地上に直線的な跡となって浮かび上がる。対象に向かってはたらきかけた範囲は目に見える痕跡として残るが、それらは風や息ひとつで消し飛んでしまうほどに脆い。本作はパフォーマンス（行為）をすることで浮き彫りになる場の不変性、またそこから起こりうる可変性を探るための実践でもある。

　本作において、作者は頭部に小型カメラを装着し、一人称視点的な角度から迫った手元の動きと、一方で現場から離れた位置にある固定カメラによって遠写された身体および周辺の移ろいとを合わせて見せ、前述の実践内容をより視覚的に記録した。

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