Go To Next GATE
最後になるかもしれない OPEN GATE 2017 が無事終了しました。制作期間を入れると12日間、みんなを出迎え、見送り、私はまだ札幌にいる。残された記録が流れる中で。
9月15日〜18日、毎日車で乗り込んで、運び入れと運び出しの繰り返しの展覧会とパフォーマンス、どこまでも境界はなく、そこの空気を、空間を共有しながら、そのままの状態のまま、音もものも人も、その場所で溶け合いながら、戯れながら過ごした日々。そして後にはなにものこさない。
どこにもない、どこでもない、果てしない旅のほんの寄り道のような気がしてきた。
そう、最後にはならない。終わらせる必要もない。またどこかの GATE を開ければいい。
「何もないところから」「何もないところへ」。
作品を作る、音を出す、準備する、片付ける。旅路の途中でふと立ち寄って、ふっと戯れて、去っていく。
Asian Sounds Research の旅は、これまでどうり彷徨いながらいろいろなものを吸収し、吐き出し、息をするように密やかに続けていけばいい、大きくもなれば小さくもなり、それなりのやり方で旅を続ければいい。なんかそう思えてきた。とりあえず3年間彷徨いながら、共に彷徨う彼らに出会えたことだし。
新しくも古くもなく、国境越えて、ジャンルも越えて、役割も交差しながら、新たな人やものを巻き込んで漂い続ける。
今回のさまよい人たち。
新たに風を巻き込みながら、とりあえず GATE は閉じない事にしておきます。
また、どこかで私たちの旅に遭遇したならば、是非暖かくお見守りくださいませ。
See you at Next GATE
Asian Sounds Research プロジェクトディレクター
OPEN GATE 2017 キュレーター＆ディレクター
Sachiko M
photo by Yusuke Watanabe 、Win Win
Going To The Next GATE
OPEN GATE 2017, possibly the last of it, has ended without any trouble. In the twelve days including the preparation days, I had welcomed and then sent off the members. I am still here in Sapporo, with the stream of memories left within me.
Everyday from Sept.15th through the 18th, we repeatedly got into the car and carried in and out the artworks. The exhibition and the performance had no boundary whatsoever, the untouched sound and people blending into each other in the same atmosphere, sharing the space and amusing each other. And then nothing was left behind.
The days felt like a small stop in a never-ending journey that existed nowhere, destined to nowhere.
Yes, this will not be the end. We don’t need to end it. We can just open a different GATE somewhere else.
“From nothing,” “to nothing.”
Creating artworks, making sounds, preparing and then clearing things away. A small stop amid the journey, unintentionally mingling, and then simply leaving.
The journey of Asian Sounds Research can quietly continue on, just like it has, roaming about, absorbing and exhaling various things as if breathing. It can become big and small, continuing on the journey in its natural manner. I think it can be like that. At the least, I’ve wandered for three years and found other fellows to roam about with.
Not new nor old, crossing over borders and genres, exchanging our roles, it will continue to engulf more people and things, afloat as always.
Tadashi Yonago, Yoshihito Mizuuchi, chi too, Adam Kitingan, WinWin, Saya, Takashi Ueno, Nanae Uehara, Otomo Yoshihide, Yuki Higuchi, Yusuke Watanabe, Frida, PIKA, Mobile Earth Oven (Sinya Anzai), Tohru Nakazaki, Shoji Funakawa, Atsushi Nishitani, Kana Kuroiwa, Shohei Zushi, Masataka Nochi…
The wanderers that roamed with me this time.
Swallowing up the new wind, I’m not yet going to close the GATE.
If you ever encounter our journey again somewhere, do cast us your kind eyes.
See you at the Next GATE.
Asian Sounds Research Project Director
OPEN GATE 2017 Curator & Director
Sachiko M
PS::
The footsteps of those who has gone after “OPEN GATE 2017” can be seen at the “OPEN GATE archive room” at TOOV cafe/gallery.
It is an ever-changing documentation, the road to the unknown for those left behind. It will be held until Oct.1st, and the rest will be continued here at this site.
