Pyuupiru and OLTA

Sakiko Yamaoka #2

Sakiko Yamaoka #1

I Would Love to Know

i would love to know what chim↑pom is up to in this very moment [leif h]

Awaiting Yuki Okumura's Arrival on Thursday

Thursday evening these two Yuki Okumura pieces will be installed:

T欄sら地温テェめパrk：Pらc値かlインフォ＆クらとリアlSたてめんt
2014
Black and white poster featuring practical info and curatorial statement written in English by Leif Holmstrand about his curated exhibition Translation Theme Park, re-typed by himself using Kotoeri, the Mac OS X standard Japanese input method, with his Swedish keyboard

Jun Yang: A Short Lecture on Forgetting and Remembering
2011
HD video '27"39
Made in collaboration with Jun Yang, Noriko Kobayashi, Hikaru Fujii, and Yu Araki

And here is Yuki Okumra's artist statement as presented on his website:

Each of us lives in a different world. Fundamentally speaking, your world consists only of your direct perceptions and personal experiences. In this solipsistic view, areas that are invisible and intangible for you, such as other people's minds and your own anatomy, hold a "black box" nature, so to speak. From your perspective, those domains contain different, conflicting situations at once, just like the quantum superposition of life and death of Schroedinger's cat, as you can never directly observe what is inside.

However, this superposition, as well as the principle of our parallel realities, are usually repressed by language, because otherwise our society would not function properly. We are linguistically generalized as human beings, particularly in terms of our interiority, both mentally and physically: Each of us is supposed to have a single and consistent mind (not plural or fragmented), and a certain anatomical structure. The former is systemized primarily by the use of "I," the term everyone equally has the right to use to refer to themselves, thus claiming no one is special, so that a common intersubjective world outside us, which is called society, is in need. The latter is defined by anatomical science, which articulates the internal system of human body by distinguishing organs with words.

In order to slip through such a confinement, to seize back the superposition, the invisible closed room, or the black box, and to fully explore its potential, my work takes "translation" or "interpretation" as a means to come and go between self and others, here and there, and now and then.

Most recently, my work started to take the form of "reinterpretation" of other artists, both contemporary and historical, extracting and expanding a certain element of their work or practice to develop a new form or make up a parallel history.

Installation Time

Installation of contemporary Japanese art at Galleri Ping-Pong and GALLERI 21 is going forward, much thanks to the delightful, talented and very reliable Morgan Schagerberg and a fantastic friend of his. It has been a joy to spend this hectic but fun day with colleagues from so far away, and our lunch at Malmö Konsthall was very nice, I think. A big thank you to Ia Neumuller and Dan Setthammar for problem-solving today, and also the greatest thank you available to the Lady-Full-Of-Know-How at Telia, Mobilia, in Malmö, she totally saved my day. The Japanese artists participating in this exhibition are: Sakiko Yamaoka, Yoko Asakai, Pyuupiru, Okumura Yuki, Cobra Goodnight, Chim↑Pom, OLTA, Fumiko Kobayashi, Sachiko Kazama. To the ones who are attending personally and had such a long journey, delayed by the typhoon: Very welcome to Malmö and Sweden! We have longed for this!

Artist Presentation #9: YUKI OKUMURA (in Swedish)

YUKI OKUMURAs arbete rör sig kring översättningen som praktik och alla de förskjutningar och sammanbrott som sker när språkets lokala ekologi universaliseras och sprids. Utgångspunkten är språket som en intersubjektiv nödvändighet för samlevnad, där översättningen är en instans där det talande subjektets jag alltid undermineras. I videoverket JUN YANG: A SHORT LECTURE ON FORGETTING AND REMEMBERING dokumenterar Okumura ett konstnärssamtal med den kinesisk-österrikiska konstnären Jun Yang, under ett framträdande i Tokyo. Konstnären är dock bortredigerad ur bild och ljudspår och endast den japanska tolken och en textremsa på engelska framträder med sina meddelanden om glömska, hågkomst och översättning. Utställningen visar också ett nyproducerat verk som tematiserar översättning och tolkning i relation till automatiserad teckenomvandling – det vill säga Yuki Okumuras textverk med titeln T欄sら地温テェめパrk:クらとリアlSたてめんt, som återfinns i denna katalog på sidan 4 i en särskild version [titel och verk genomgick justeringar efter att denna text skrevs]. Material: Leif Holmstrands engelskspråkiga curatorial statement om utställningen Translation Theme Park, nerskrivet på nytt av honom själv via Kotoeri, Mac OS Xs standardmetod för japansk input, på svenskt tangentbord. Variabel tryckstorlek. /Kajsa Widegren