kagablog

by Tomoko Mukaiyama

concept

‘wasted’ is the title of installation work of 12.000 white silk dresses with stains of menstruation bloods on by 12.000 individual women all over the world with different cultures, religions, tribal and age. The installation is a labyrinth of 12.000 pieces of fragile and feminine silk dresses. The dresses are hung in matrix way in the space, so the public walk thought between the waving dresses and bundled with mist of silk. People have to find their own way in there literally and figuratively.

The work is the celebration of being female and male in global scale.

The work will bring various issues, such as envelopment, fertility, populations, public health, religion, taboo, sex and finally gender.
However the work won’t indicate any answer to those arguments, it gives equally a key to everyone to start thinking about us.

strategy

Mukaiyama is going to develop her network and set up as 12 bases in Amsterdam, Einthoven, Sydney, Johannesburg, Seattle, Moscow, Jakarta, Tokyo, Nagoya, Sapporo, Hanoi and Saigon.

Each bases is supposed to get in contacts with 1000 women who are participating and responsibilities to complete her part in the work. 12 bases need to use their own communication network to recruit 1000 women.

Once all the participations are there, we send away 12.000 dresses to 12.000 women through 12 bases.
This act is a clearly manifest, should bring arguments in each regions.

12.000 individual women take process of making their own dress with blood.

The principal of ‘wasted’ is to build esthetic and sublime installation of 12.000 beautiful dresses with stains of our own symbol of power.

motive

‘wasted’ has multiple layers of meanings: culturally, socially, intellectually, artistically, politically, and personally.

Not only installation itself but also working process will challenge to encounter with different cultural, religious, tribal, and legal restrictions and similar taboos.

guideline.

2006 winter
Designing dress, making samples
Choosing silk material testing on absorption of blood.
making network
Researching on the market with material and producing dress.
Appling grants and sponsorship.

2007 spring
Setting up the network. Amsterdam, Einthoven, Sydney, Johannesburg, Seattle, Moscow, Jakarta, Tokyo, Nagoya, Sapporo, Hanoi and Saigon.
Last check on dress design. Order copies in Vietnam.

2007 summer
Make a list of 12.000 women
Sending dresses
Install ion plan

2007 winter
Sending dresses
Install ion plan

2008 spring
Collecting dresses
Preparation of exhibition

2008 summer
Presenting work

Tomoko Mukaiyama

Next to her established career as a concert pianist, Tomoko Mukaiyama started her activities as visual artist about 10 years ago.
With her experience as a stage artist , her first object was to make installation for the concert space.
Together with architect duo digital PBX ,[ Amsterdam x Tokyo] has brought another dimension to the concert hall.
‘Communication’ between performer and audience has been always Mukaiyama ‘s frame work. Conceptual project [for you] , which is a unique piano recital for an audience of one, has made various issuers to music sociology, music esthetic and performing tradition. [for you] has been performed in Haarlem, Tokyo, Hokkaido, Toronto and Amsterdam.
In 2005 her video work was presented as installation-performance ‘haar/haar’(her/hair). It premiered in the Aichi
Art Center in Nagoya and then toured in Sydney, Seattle and Amsterdam.
Sydney Opera House has exhibited her architectural installation with glass, sound and light ,[ you and bach] during Biennale of Sydney 2006.
Her next project ‘wasted’ – installation work of 12.000 white silk dresses will be seen in 2008.

As a performer/pianist she has been invited to perform with Ensemble Modern, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Intercontemporain, and
the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. She has collaborated with
cinematographers, designers, architects, dancers and photographers,
such as Ian Kerkhof, Marina Abramovic, MERZBOW and Kim Ito. Her collaboration work with Jiri Kylian/NDT [Tar and Feathers] will be performed all over the Europe season 2006-2007 and 2007-2008.