EARTHQUAKES

Two-channel video installation
9min
2017





Kyoto Art Center, 2021


Kyoto Art Center, 2021



Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, 2019



A landscape appears in the middle of a Japanese empty theatre. Without human intervention, a series of disruptive events magically unleash. The (un)natural disasters precipitate the scenography to collapse. As the video continues, the props' remnants left behind appear inexplicably recomposed again.

    Commissioned and produced by Kyoto Art Center
    Co-produced by Videobrasil
    Produced with additional financial support from Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst 

    Director | Maya Watanabe
    Director of Photography | Fujii Sho
    Focus Puller | James Latimer
    Art Director | Miyashita Tadaya
    Sound | German Popov, OMFO
    Production Manager | Miyamoto Yoshio (-L .S .C-)
    Lighting | Sanwa Pro Light, Inc., Sogo Yohe (i RYU, Inc.)
    Translator | Arakawa Kosuke

    Special Thanks:
    Haruna Hirano, Aaron Berman, Jimba Keisuke, Morita Takumi, Mukai Mari, Nishida Hanji,
    Shimada Yoshitaka, Tategami Kotaro, Yoshimitsu Yoshiya, Thereza Farkas,
    León Chiprout, Jordi Abusada, Sebastián Díaz Morales.