No. 197
0=1 -polygenesis-
By : Hitoshi Kuriyama
Entrant’s location : 日本
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Description
It is created in the one of the famous restaurant called ”Sequoia” around Washington Harbor in Washington D.C. The main dining is about 40 meters in length and 12meters in width, the installation is constructed with 3000 pieces of glass tubes and neon lights. “Sequoia” is a large Californian evergreen tree that can reach a height of more than 90 meters. The imagination of installation comes from this long structure of Sequoia tree and the image of universe that occurs multifactorially like the trees branch off into smaller pieces. Within the whole installation, I express that the universe that has complex phases in which it repeatedly generates and annihilates even beyond our knowledge. In this work, the broken tubes represent the aftermath left in outer space created by the Big Bang, in other words, stars and beings. Inside the glass tubes is a high vacuum, so the phenomenon of these tubes breaking is similar to the beginning of this universe. Therefore, the broken tubes (a kind of “annihilation”) may become a metaphor for the beginning of the universe (“generation”). This work is “generated” (created) by “annihilation” (demolition), and it may represent the ambiguous event (process of making art work).
What did you create?
It is created in the one of the famous restaurant called ”Sequoia” around Washington Harbor in Washington D.C. The main dining is about 40 meters in length and 12meters in width, the installation is constructed with 3000 pieces of glass tubes and neon lights. “Sequoia” is a large Californian evergreen tree that can reach a height of more than 90 meters. The imagination of installation comes from this long structure of Sequoia tree and the image of universe that occurs multifactorially like the trees branch off into smaller pieces. Within the whole installation, I express that the universe that has complex phases in which it repeatedly generates and annihilates even beyond our knowledge. In this work, the broken tubes represent the aftermath left in outer space created by the Big Bang, in other words, stars and beings. Inside the glass tubes is a high vacuum, so the phenomenon of these tubes breaking is similar to the beginning of this universe. Therefore, the broken tubes (a kind of “annihilation”) may become a metaphor for the beginning of the universe (“generation”). This work is “generated” (created) by “annihilation” (demolition), and it may represent the ambiguous event (process of making art work).
Why did you make it?
I explore the idea of what “existence” and “non-existence” could be like. Over the past few years, I have represented my self-produced hypothesis of “0=1” through my artwork. It is a thought that is created from the idea that there could be no event to prove complete nothingness. Therefore, one is more likely to find an equivalency in the seemingly conflicting ideas of “existence” and “non-existence.” I try to show such juxtaposition through my artwork in order to prompt the viewer to rediscover awareness of this world from new perspectives.
How did you make it?
The neon installation contains lots of improvisation. The most of the time, I would out put what I felt in site and start to improvise. But in this particular situation and mount of time I got, it would be hard to finish just by myself. So In this time, I need to make a model and a draft for framework ahead of the time in which I had never done before and I made everything into digitalization. But at the same time, I left the place where I would not put into digitalization and place to improvise. And I felt that in working with group of people, I could put the lots of interactive aspects to my work. It was like to make up a dance with group of people. I collaborate with people who I worked with and I apply new ideas that occurred accidentally through the collaboration.
Your entry’s specification
[Title] 0=1 -polygenesis [production year] 2017[materials] neon sign, glass, vacuum of 1×10⁻⁵ Pa, electric cable[size] H6045 W39335 D12070mm