Kan Yamamoto

Papers

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:21:12 +0100

Papers

Digital pigment prints / Dimensions variable / 2010 on going

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No life?

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:50:44 +0100

No life?

1 Desk, 1 Chair, 1 Monitor / 2010

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Melting Date

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:56:57 +0100

Melting date

Date stamped on slide frame with butter / 2010

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Cycle #1

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:03:25 +0100

Cycle #1

Video installation / 00:14:20 loop / 2010

There is new way of shooting photography. Collection. I collected images of sky from internet using google serch, regardless of time and location, then reconstructed them as cycle of a day which repeats but does not exist.

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HEADS

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:53:06 +0100

HEADS (video version)

Video 1:35 loop / 2010

Heads of states are here superposed. Dissolve of representations of representatives. This is video version of "HEADS" which is exhibited under photographies section.

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Hollywood

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:09:02 +0100

Hollywood

Video 2:11 loop / 2008

An ironical and fanciful subversion of one of the most famous sign in the world.

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News

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:07:42 +0100

News

Video 1:23 loop / 2009

Reconstraction of footages of TV news which consist of minimum pixels of a braun tube.
Originally exhibited at Magatzems Wall&Video, Valencia, Spain.

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HEADS

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:33:30 +0100

HEADS

4 digital pigment prints and video installation / 2010

Living as a non-european in a so called civilized society, everyday I face a kind of ritual to play a role to be an another person in some way, although I do it naturally and have never recognized it as a ritual. For example, I wear clothes which had been historically not my custom but something adopted to our daily life through the process of modernization.

In the case of japanese society, my ancestor were too impatient when they saw power of the occident for the first time after hundreds years of international seclusion. Those in power wanted to gain western power to emulate them and one of the first thing they did was trying to dress like them.

The ritual happened, is happening and will be happening again and again as long as there is economical and political hierarchy among cultures.

This work is made for a group show "Les Ma�tres Fous (Bad masters)" titled after a film which is made by a french film maker and anthropologist Jean Rouch. Artists developed the exhibition under a theme of ritual. It was exhibited at Freies Museum Berlin untill 5. March.

Video version of this project is under Video section.

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18.12.09

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:39:24 +0100

Live slide projection improvisation

at 16 doors, Berlin on 18. December. 2009.

This is a documentation of a live improvisation which I did as a member of ping. This time I took photos of things and people in the bar right before the performance and then mixed them as live slide show using Quartonian VSM.

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Phantoms

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:38:48 +0100

Phantoms

Video 2:56 loop / 2009

Collection of small sequences of TV news. They are always there, phantoms.
Originally exhibited at Magatzems Wall&Video, Valencia, Spain.

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