still/silent - 遊 (yu) / 2012 - 2014

Audiovisual performance in the spatial installation
 
 

still/silent - 遊 (yu) (2013_2014) :

Videos and Installation (draft etc.) were stolen on April 1, 2014 in my sturio in Berlin.

 

– expanded work of "still/silent" (2012-2013)

experimental video "existence of risk–1964" (2013)

HD/color/stereo/2013 English subtitles

sound from sound sketch for still/silent 2013 (sound diary 2011–2012)

©Erika Matsunami, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, GEMA, Germany

 

Festival and Exhibition 2013-2014:

 

The videoartistic project "100x100=900", Naples, Italy (the Project Director: Enrico Tomaselli)

To celebrate 50 years of videoart, conventionally recurrent on 2013, Magmart | video under volcano organize the videoartistic project 100x100=900 (100 videoartists to tell a century). International touring exhibition 2013 (catalog)

 

experimental video "existence of risk–1964" (2013) , Urban Research 2014 (an International Directors Lounge Contemporary Art and Media Festival) at Directors Lounge, Berlin, 7 - 17 February 2014, curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

 

This video and the sound are constructed around the world topics/events of the year 1964 and the personal accounts from memory of the year 1964 by relatives of mine that are still living in the city of Hiroshima. It is a point of view and a short review of the ideological, philosophical and political meaning of human life, complex social systems or events and the consideration given to individual life at that time (history the year 1964) in history.

 

The year 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calender, it is a benchmark of the time on earth. I was one year old and lived in Hiroshima city in 1964. I interviewed my relatives in Hiroshima in 2013 about the year 1964. We talk about what was happening, what changed regionally, nationally and internationally and the technology that was developed day by day, however communication and correspondence were not as fast and closely linked as they are now.

 

Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature and he’d refused it...

 

The year 1964 was ending on Thursday of the Gregorian calender which means in Middel English „Thor’s day (Norse mythology)“.

 

proof-reading of English Texts/Subtitles: Alexander C Pusch