"Other Species' View of Human Crisis"
-- Wonder World
Exhibition and Workshop in Disguise --
featuring Sumi Takamasa
(draft)
-- plan by --
route6 [Fukuoka, Japan]
representative: Miyamoto
Hatsune
November, 2002
[Purpose of the plan]
Recent population growth on the earth is inviting various crisis on our species; food, medicine, transport, etc.
The problems are getting more severely and complicated.
On the other hand, in Japan, baby birth ratio has been decreasing and increasing elderly people population at a very high speed. (Some countries in Europe have the same problem.)
How come the unbalance of our human species happens ?
Does human species have some fatal problem to live ?
How do other species think of the human species ? How about the ones out of the earth ? How about from ancient's/future's ?Now, we would like to suppose, "what do they think about the present human situation ?"
Can we find a new way to break through by special imagination with artworks ?
Key artist is "Sumi Takamasa", living in Fukuoka, Japan. He is very good at making strange species, for example, extincted species, confusional new animal between animal and plants, mixed animal which can be seen as daily furniture, and so on.
We will install his artworks and promote a kind of workshop. Audience will disguise to one of Sumi's animals and think about human species.
Sumi's artwork exhibition and "disguise" workshop
Sumi's works will install two rooms according to each charactor.
room A: Parallel World (draft)-- ancient extincted species, very small species, deep sea species, etc.room B: Imaginary World (draft)-- fantasic, mythological and/or Sumi's original imaginary speciesEach person will select one room to experience and choose one species.
He/She will disguise the species and make observasion of human's crisis.
Last, he/she will propose "idea" "criticism" "plan" , etc. to human species.
[rooms]
(1) entrance
Sumi's two artworks belong to each "WORLD", audience will be guided and select one "WORLD"(2) each WORLD exhibition rooms
* Guide staff (put on special wear) or VTR for explanation
--example--
(A) Diplocauls
Diplocauls, 1994
3000 x 1400 x 400
FRP, artificial grass, artificial eye
* ancient species(B) Silo-Men
Silo - Men, 1994
2400 x 700 x 700 (each)
FRP, grass, water cock
installing several artworks of each WORLD(3) Rooms for disguise
explanation of each species life
* some of the works will need re-product and re-construction.
--example--
--A room--
Tardigrades (Bears of the Moss), 2001
length 4200mm (including hair, 5000mmj
foam styrol, artificial gom
* 10,000 times large size. Very funny small species to bear "very dry" "very cold" "very high pressure" "no air" etc.
Surinam toad (pipa pipa), 2001?
* a frog, hatching eggs on his back
Saccopharynx lavenbergi, 2002
H 60 x D 60 x W 30 cm
FRP
* living in deep sea
Vampire aquid from hell, 2002
length 50cm
FRP
* living in deep sea
Regalecus glesne, 2002
length 100cm
FRP
* living in deep sea
Diplocauls, 1994
3000 x 1400 x 400
FRP, artificial grass, artificial eye
* ancient species
Ptrygotus macrophthalmus, 2002
(table and wall display)
FRP (tables: light, steel)
* ancient species
--B room--
BOMBARD RABBIT, 1999
H350 x W1900 x D1000
FRP, chemical fiber, artificial eye
BE BOMBED RABBITS, 1999
H190 x W190 x D160 (each)
animal doll, carrot type bomb model
BISCAT, 1994
31 x 105 x 14 cm, 120pieces
keys, OREO cookies, biscuits, urethane resins
DUST FISH
W2700, H1200, weight approx. 60kg
painting on the reconstructive scrap (metal, plastic, light, etc.)
Kaiwarewani, 1993
W1200
acrylic, FRP, vesitable (a kind of radish)
* growth vesitable on the back
Cyclops (SAIKUROPUU), 1996
H160
Urethane, bottle, sweet tablet
Silo - Men, 1994
2400 x 700 x 700 (each)
FRP, grass, water cock
Grass Man, 1993
H 2500
artificial grass, Urethane, artificial eye
* people can put on the costume.
The coelacanth who wanted to become a University professor, 1999
W560 x H350 x D300
FRP, books
Lice (SHIRAMI), 1995
250 x 180 x 60.5cm
acrylic materials, 42 intravenous drips, beakers,saline, formalin, mushrooms, a manual insecticide pump
left) large louse model and mushroom installation
right) Personal Parasite Box, 42 x 49 x 6.5cm
wodden box, Urethane, medical drip injection tools, Formalin, mushroom, light, etc.
TONERIKO, 1998
Polyurethane, Fossil as plinth
Audiences put on costume or mask of the species which they choose.
* Sumi is also very good at making costume. if it is difficult to make new costume, paper craft masks are easy to product. People can go back with their paper mask.
example: paper costume
at the workshop program "Art Picnic '95", 1995
paper full face mask
(4) Human species room
Data of Population Growth and human models (by Sumi and reday-made model).
People will make observation as they are another species. * It need reconstruction to install.
NO MORE HIROSHIMA (MAN BOMB DOME STEALTH), 1997
H 30 cm (human model)
painting on ready-made model
left) a part of the work, human model.
right) whole work
SCHOOL ZONE, 1996
small children dolls (a part of the work)
H 12 cm
painting on ready-made model, wooden toy desks
MORGUE PARTY, 1996
H130 x W200 x D60
small children dolls, photo from some museums, wooden boxes
(5) Making proposal room
audience makes message to human species.
text, drawing, etc. it need tools.
* maybe some staff to guide people.
(6) Proposal exhibition room
message card on the wall, VTR, etc.(7) exit [artist profile]
* artist profile will be shown in the entrance or the last room.
(1) Entrance
--selection--
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(2) Exhibition rooms
A B
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(3)
Rooms for disguise
* (3) can be a part of the (2) room
A B
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--Confluence--
(4) Human species room
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(5) Making proposal room
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(6) Proposal exhibition room
* (4)
- (6) rooms can be same room.
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(7) exit [artist profile]
* some costume return, people go back with
paper craft.
[POINTS of this plan]
-- Audience will disguish another species to consider our species from new view point.-- The exhibition rooms are not a science/natural history museum nor school. Art does not direct to only one right way, people will imagine freely and frankly here.
-- There will be many ways to express by audience; message by pen and paper, drawing and painting, paper craft and wood craft, by cloth or some food project, internet discussion (for example, people belong to same species talk each other.), comic, music, novel, etc. (within the budget)
-- Small pamphlet and/or internet website will be available after the project, about whole results including activities out of exhibition space.
[ARTIS PROFILE]
Sumi
Takamasa
Sumi Takamasa (left) and his solo show's photo in
2000 (right).
Born in Fukuoka, 1968. Living in Fukuoka.
Mainly he uses FRP (Fiber Reinforced Plastics) for artworks.
Representative of "ARTREK".
Sumi has been known as his unique works, imaginary animals and very large small species, animal and plant, etc. Not only in art exhibitions, he has present his world in sea museum, and so on.
He is also a coauther of the book "Nihon Kaiki Gensou Kikou (Mystery and Imaginary Travel in Japan) Vol. 4 ", published in 2000 by the Douhou-sha, Tokyo, Japan (written in Japanese).
Biography1968 Born in Fukuoka, Japan.Solo Exhibition
1992 Graduated from Saga university department of education, majored in Fine Arts.2001 Solo exhibition " KUMAMUSHI" at the MOMA CONTEMPORARY.Group Exhibition
2000 Solo exhibition " PARANOID" at the MOMA CONTEMPORARY.
1996 Solo exhibition " SCHOOL ZONE " at the MOMA CONTEMPORARY.
1995 Solo exhibition " SHIRAMI " at the MOMA CONTEMPORARY.
1994 Solo exhibition " BISCAT " at the MOMA CONTEMPORARY.
1993 Solo exhibition " A Visitor in Wonderland " at the Civic Gallery (rental gallery) in the Fukuoka Art Museum.2003 (plan) " Fuku-Hoku Art Exchange ", Fukuoka Art Museum and Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka and Kitakyushu.[Sumi Takamasa's website] --WONDER MUSUEM (Japanese only)-- http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~BU9T-SM/
2002 " Musuem City Project 2002 ", Gin'nan BLD, Hotel Zontag, Fukuoka.
1999 " IMS Art Festival ", IMS Bld., Fukuoka.
1998 " Kontyu Kankakukan " in Kyoto.
1997 " Art Yatai Prototype" in Fukuoka.
1995 " Art Picnic'95 " in Fukuoka.
1994 " Museum City Tenjin '94 ", Fukuoka.
" Hakata Shounen Art ", Fukuoka.
1993 " IMS Art Festival ", IMS Bld. , Fukuoka
"route6"
-- A women group consist of art supporters in Fukuoka, Japan. (as of 2002, some members are living in other cities)
-- Since 1997, route6 members meet frankly and talk about contemporary art.
-- 8 people, in twenties to forties.
-- Matsuo Miki, Public facility program coordinator, Museum City Project secretary member, b. 1962, Fukuoka
-- Okubo Miyako, Freelance art coodinator, b. 1966, Fukuoka
-- Furukawa Fumiko, Art director (Gallery Mitsubishi-jisho Artium), b. 1968, Fukuoka
-- Yoshimura Miki, Art coordinator (Fukuoka City Foundation for Arts and Cultural Promotion) , b. 1968, Fukuoka
-- Kirino Aiko, Freelance art manager, b. 1970, New York, United States
-- Kinoshita Takako, Freelance editor, b. 1971, Fukuoka
-- Kirino Yuuko, Artist, Art education staff (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music), b. 1976, Toride, Japan
-- Miyamoto Hatsune, Art coordinator, Museum City Project Secretary General, b. 1962, Fukuoka [representative]
Miyamoto Hatsune
e-mail [RY4H-MYMT@asahi-net.or.jp]
phone and fax: +81-92-283-6205 (Museum City Project)
postal address: c/o Museum City Project Office
Gin'nan BLD #403, Komondo-cho 5-18, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka 812-0029 JAPAN
