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yuichiro-higashiji-info · 6 years ago

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2019/11/9(sat) 19:00～20:30

場所： KOBE 819 GALLERY 　神戸市中央区三宮町3-1-16 三星ビル3F南室 Place: KOBE 819 GALLERY 　Kobe City, Chuo-ku Sannomiyacho 3-1-16 Samsung Building 3F South Room

コピーとは何か？オリジナルとは何か？そして、自分とは何か？ヒガシジ作品を通して、思考や解釈を言語化しながら、新しい概念を探し求める旅。

/ What is a copy? What is the original? And what are you? A journey to seek new concepts through verbalization of thoughts and interpretations through Higashiji works.

2017年からKOBE 819 GALLERYはヒガシジと共に、プロジェクトを立ち上げ、今までに国内外の各都市でのプロジェクトを展開して参りました。またヒガシジ自身も積極的な活動を展開し、独自の広がりを見せおり、今年も昨年に引き続き、KOBE 819 GALLERYにて新作を発表いたします。

今回のトークイベントではこのプロジェクトはヒガシジにとって、また彼の作品に触れる我々にとって、どのような接続、効果を生み出していくのか。そして、展覧会を行うことで、どのようなケミストリーが起こっていくのか。このイベントでは、参加者の方々も含め、このようなところ共有できたらと思います。

Since 2017, KOBE 819 GALLERY has launched a project with Higashiji and has developed projects in cities in Japan and overseas. Higashiji is also actively developing and showing his own spread, and again this year, he will announce a new work at KOBE 819 GALLERY.

What kind of connections and effects will this project create for Higashiji and for us who touch his work at this talk event? And what kind of chemistry will happen through the exhibition? I would like to share this kind of place with participants at this event.

■A=A A≠A

1枚の写真プリントAを2000回繰り返しコピーしたもの。 A=Aが期待される複製行為を極限まで繰り返して差異を増大させることで、偽物A'がコピーの概念を超えたあたらしい価値Bを作り出す。

One photo print A is copied 2000 times. By repeating the duplication act that A = A is expected to the maximum, and increasing the difference, Fake A 'creates a new value B that goes beyond the concept of copying.

■Building

私はある1枚のハガキ��着目した。人類が世界ではじめて核を使用したこの日、廣島がヒロシマに、廣島県物産陳列館が原爆ドームに変わった。人々にとって、ヒロシマが廣島であったことを忘れても、そこに残る放射能は半減を繰り返すだけで消滅することはほとんどない。50年以上経って、その痕跡は放射能ともに世界遺産として登録され、平和の象徴となった。それでも、核をもたないはずのこの国には、核が存在し続ける。

I focused on one postcard. On the day when humans first used the nuclear weapons in the world, Hiroshima(廣島) was changed to Hiroshima(ヒロシマ) and Hiroshima(廣島) Prefectural Product Display was changed to the Atomic Bomb Dome. For people, even if they forget that Hiroshima(ヒロシマ) was Hiroshima(廣島), the radioactivity that remains there is almost never lost by repeating half. More than 50 years later, the trace was registered as a World Heritage site with radioactivity and became a symbol of peace. Nevertheless, nuclear power still exists in this country that should have no nuclear power.

今回は、コピーそのものがテーマでなく、コピー機を通すことで見えてくることを考えようと思います。/　This time, I would like to consider that the copy itself is not a theme, but can be seen through a copy machine.

2020年の東京オリンピックは、震災から復興を掲げているが、フクシマの話はでてこない。フクシマを語るにしても廣島なしには語れないはずで、なぜなら、人類初の核エネルギーを使用した場所だから。日本人にとって当然の疑問なのに、聞こえてこないことが違和感であり、自分なりに解釈��ようと思ってこの題材を選んた。最初は、核エネルギーの事象にとってのオリジナルとして原爆ドームをとらえたが、原爆ドームはどの名前のとおりに、原爆で建物が壊れた状態であり、さらにそのオリジナルとして原爆が落とされる前の建物が浮かび上がってきた。それに気づいたときに戦前と戦後という日本の歴史における重要なキーワードの境界にそれがあることに気づくことができた。

The Tokyo Olympics in 2020 are aiming for recovery from the earthquake disaster, but Fukushima's story has not come out. Talking about Fukushima shouldn't be possible without Hiroshima because it's the first place to use human nuclear energy.　Although it was a natural question for Japanese people, it was uncomfortable that they did not hear it, and I chose this material because I wanted to interpret it in my own way.

At first, the atomic bomb dome was taken as an original for the nuclear energy event, but as the name of the atomic bomb dome, the building was broken by the atomic bomb, and the original building before the atomic bomb was dropped appears. Came up. When I realized it, I realized that it was an important keyword boundary in the history of Japan between pre-war and post-war.

A=A A≠Aを通して、原爆ドームを元のカタチにもどすことは、戦後からみて”戦前”の入口に立ったにしかすぎない。この言い方自体も戦後の言い方で、戦前の言い方では原爆ドームは出てこない。たしかに、戦前では正しいことが戦後にはそうでなくなるはたくさんあったと聞く。

このした解釈の中で、戦前から戦後になったことで、また、単純に時間が経過したことで忘れてしまったことをもう1度思い出してみる機会としたい。

Returning the A-bomb dome to its original shape through A = A A ≠ A is only at the entrance of “pre-war” after the war. This phrase itself is a post-war phrase, and the Atomic Bomb Dome does not come out before the war. I hear that there were a lot of things that were right before the war, but not so after the war.

In this interpretation, I would like to take another chance to remember that I had forgotten because it was after the war, or simply because time passed.

■写真展概要　/Exhibition informaition

KOBE 819 GALLERY企画　ヒガシジユウイチロウ写真展　『 A=A　A≠A(building) 』/ Higashiji Yuichiro 『 A=A　A≠A(building) 』

2019/11/9（sat.）〜11/17（sun.）12:00〜19:00　last day until18:00　close:11/11(mon.)

場所： KOBE 819 GALLERY 　神戸市中央区三宮町3-1-16 三星ビル3F南室 Place: Kobe City, Chuo-ku Sannomiyacho 3-1-16 Samsung Building 3F South Room

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roamanov · 7 years ago

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paper knowledge

glossary

prosumer: a person who both consumes and produces a product

scriptural economy: the “endless tapestry” of writing that works as both discipline (e.g. socialisation, control) and myth (history)

promissory: indicative of something to come

epistemic: relating to knowledge

deflationary: reductive; relating to economic deflation

microfiche: a piece of film containing microphotographs of the pages of a document.

introduction

writing began to expand massively as a discipline in the nineteenth century due to the arrival of the printing press

the specialised labours of printing were reframed by the invention (and use) of new devices

technical innovations lead to enlarged constituencies

reproduction is one of the things that allows people to identify documents as documents

however, the core function of the document is to define - to know/show history, to provide evidence

the word comes from the latin “docer”, meaning to teach or to show

we are able to pick out certain genres from within the “jumble of discourse” because recognising genres has become instinctive. they are part of our vocabulary, internalised within our culture.

like other cultural staples, genres are not artefacts. they are ongoing, dynamic, and unstable.

any object can be a thing, but once it has been framed and contextualised it becomes a document

written genres are not co-existential with textual artefacts. (a novel need not be a printed book; it can be multiple volumes, pages on a screen, or a serialisation.)

paper is both stable (”let’s get that on paper/in writing”) and ephemeral. it serves as a means of externalising the mind.

“bureaucracies don’t so much employ documents as they are partly constructed by and out of them.”

re-contextualisation of an existing document can change its meaning entirely.

the notion of “print” has become disconnected from any one specific process

“print culture” is associated with western modernity, and like western modernity defies meaning/categorisation

genres of print are invariably descendants of other genres; it is a genealogy associated with repetition and variation

xerography

tackles documents that blur the boundaries between different scriptural systems

a loose account of the history of photocopy/zerography

digital documents have no edges; they are made up of numbers, codes, bits, erasing any physical conception of the document we might have so that it becomes indistinguishable from the display on the screen. copying transforms these codes into something we can see and touch

“xerographic copying...worked partly in the construction of digital documents as such.”

the invention of the photocopier was a collective effort; although chester carlson pioneered the technology, customers found a myriad of unexpected uses for it, making far more copies than the machine was originally designed to produce.

the copier’s purpose has become muddled: it can now scan, fax, print, size up/down, and so on.

xerographic reproduction was outlawed in the soviet union till its collapse

the copying and subsequent publication of the pentagon papers by daniel ellsberg was a key moment in the us resistance to the vietnam war

the team who helped ellsberg with this act was known as the Plumbers - and they had a significant role in exposing the watergate scandal, which led to nixon’s resignation in 1974.

the pentagon papers were both plural and singular - a collection of documents recounting a single concept, a single history

“’the pentagon papers' became the imprecise designation for an overlapping cluster of anthologies and potential anthologies of government documents about the vietnam war.”

xeroxing the papers was confluent with editing them - ellsberg used cardboard laid over the photocopier to hide the margins, thus concealing the words “top secret”. he made multiple copies of each document; it was almost an addiction. it has been theorised that he was trying to make his papers more important by copying them.

a leaked copy has the ability to transgress the boundary between “inside” and “outside”.

“living documents” are constantly being changed and updated (wikipedia, the us constitution, etc)

the fact that photocopiers can copy anything, including 3D objects, means that everything has the potential to become a document. to xerox something is to transform it into, or read it as, a document. the medium and the genre have become one.

“xerox-lore” = charting something in order to solidify its place in history and lend it credence

the copyright act of 1909 forbids anyone from copying a document if they are not the copyright holder

conversely, the copyright act of 1976 codifies the doctrine of fair use (relating to purposes of teaching)

“though typing and typescripts remained ubiquitous, episodes from the early history of xerography show how entwined photocopies and digital documents were from the very first.”

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myzerography · 12 years ago

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Abandoned Church. New Mexico.

Taken in Taiban, New Mexico October 22, 2011

The last light of the day falls on an abandoned church in New Mexico.

Abandoned Church New Mexico

Driving along some road in New Mexico — during my cross-country adventure — I noticed light falling in an appealing way on an old abandoned building. I wasn’t in picture taking mode, but I’m always scanning for interesting lighting and compositions in the off chance I see something I like.

I wasn’t sure if this building was worth turning around for. And I thought about it for another mile or so before I convinced myself that I should turn around and go back. I don’t see that many abandoned buildings I like — especially when the lighting is “just so”.

I pulled into the dusty lot and took a few snapshots with my Canon Powershot. I left my “good” camera in its bag — which I am kicking myself for now.

Anyway, it turns out this abandoned Presbyterian church is kind of famous and has been photographed quite a bit. I had no idea. It was just a chance encounter.

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Abandoned Church. New Mexico. was originally published on Zerography

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myzerography · 12 years ago

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Walkway to the End of the World

Walkway to the End of the World Yellowstone National Park, WY June 29, 2011

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myzerography · 11 years ago

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A Pier Moment 1

A Pier Moment 1 | Silhouette series Santa Monica, California January 26, 2011

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