Entertainment by body, place, memory,

Wearable Art Show 2006

 

Hisashi Hosomi is strongly drawn to memory that is evoked with a physical sensation when a man stands in a certain place. This wearable art show also started with digging up such memories. The department who interviewed each model of Keio University extracted key words by reminding the past, and produced video works in which the everyday life of each model and the unusual life are complicated. The show was made up of wearable figurative works made by art college students based on this image or various other concepts. This was not just about showing fashion, it was a work based on body, place, memory, and it was also entertainment.

The stage was set between two pillars in an open space with glass. The image of the rising waterfall was projected throughout one of the pillars and the same person as the model walking on the stage was projected on the screen of a large cloth put behind the stage. The model is "here", but "is there over there". Creating a place that can be said to be neutral like this is a method common to the recent work of the department store. The department of interest who is interested in the place of existence which was called by the name of "festival" or "barrier" in the past aims to reconstruct such a special place, the space as it is in the present by such hands. In this time too, the department tried to make a new festival place appear in the everyday space of the university through the event called a show.

 

Art critic, Keio University Professor Tatsuo Kondo

(An art critic, professor of Keio University, Tatsuo Kondo)