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2016, novel installation

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God is dead and also I am dying. Usually people who has been in a prison for handred years get schizoid, but he is still easygoing usually. Finally he is discharged, he says I am a jailer as soon as he get out, and he goes a glass interview as soon as he get out, at the end he affects a pigeon, and he says I would like to be would-be. We cannot stand with him and try to turn him out of door, but he quickly makes his way through, and says I was dead and then reborn uncarried. It's a reverse order. In that pure white cell, there was an earth-quake, and I got up on Futon, 'Of course it was one bedroom, but still it almost differs from a bedroom' - Maurice Blanchot, "At the Moment Wanted"

Prisoner wanna go to the wake, he says. Whose? I ask, he says mine. ... I see, 'Law what quit inscribing a death penalty may be not Law' - Jacques Derrida, "Maurice Blanchot is Dead"

神はまだしも私も死んだ。百年も囚人をすれば精神を病むだろうに、此奴ときたら一向に飄々としてやがるもんで、遂には釈放されるとの次第、檻から出るやおいらは看守、外に出るや硝子の面会だと、仕舞には鳩ぽっぽうの真似までして、おいらは好き好んで似非してるんで有之奉存上候とか宣う始末。これ堪らんと摘み出そとしたらスイスイとすり抜けすり抜け、おいらは死んで水子に生まれ直し相成候だって、それじゃ順番が逆じゃんか。あの真白けの独房に地震があって蒲団から飛び起きてから、「もちろんそれはひとつの寝室だったのだが、しかしそれでもほとんど寝室とは異なるものであった。」(モーリス・ブランショ『望みのときに』)

囚人は通夜に出たいと云う。誰の? と訊き返せば、私の。と。……あ、たしかに、「死刑を書き込むことをやめた法律は法律ではないだろう。」(ジャック・デリダ『モーリス・ブランショが死んだ』)

Exhibition 'Prisoner wanna go to the wake'

5.13.2016-5.19.2016, at Art Space KOKONOKA

co-exhibitor: Shuntaro Yoshino

archive photo: Shuntaro Yoshino