the guest

(2019)

ongoing piece

Memoriale Mortis
(2019)

A mixed media (visual projection on fabric) collaboration work, this piece explores the space between our world and the afterlife. The projection was a live visual that reacted to sound within the space.

Audio in background: Atonality TwoFour

Group exhibition, “Aleatory 4 Attempts”, Tromsø

I’ll have what you’re having
(2019)

The moving image depicts a form that both gives and takes. Expanding on the “kimokawaii” concept, the object is meant to contain opposites. It was to be phallic, yet yonic. Invasive, yet non-threatening.

Shown as part of collaborative installation at Insomnia Tromsø 2019

*clip has no audio

Oh my tempura, oh my goat!
(2019)

All hail the dancing fried prawn!

This work began in a collaborative assignment with students of Hosei University.
The current updated version was shown as part of collective installation at Insomnia Tromsø 2019

guestpeople n.客家
(2018)

Using video projected onto vinyl discs painted white and mounted on the wall of the exhibition space at different distances, this installation casts the projection of dark Tokyo streets as a liminality through which to explore a continuity and break from history. The interaction of electronic music, lyrics sung in the Hakka language and video effects highlights the role of technology in creating a space of dislocation and repatriation with the historical-cultural past.

Solo exhibition, “guestpeople”, Tokyo

Bludgeoned to death by a lifetime supply of soap.
(2018)

Displaying three lightly altered, repetitive video frames intercut with a slowly warping digital effect, this work seeks to explore the subjective experience of suppression, self-censorship and the confrontation with this interiority.

Group exhibition, “5%”, Tokyo

A Planet Sheds Its Skin
(2017)

This installation seeks to rehabilitate the machine. By generating musical notes from hand-made pieces, the line between artist and tool is blurred, opening a path for a reparative relation to technology. To this end, the colours on the painted vinyl discs were read using a video sampling technique analogous to the way a turntable needle reads the grooves of a vinyl LP. The resulting video data was then converted into music with the aim of leaving a synesthetic impact on the viewer.

Group exhibition, “ガミガミ”, Tokyo

work no. 11717
(2017)

Labour takes up most of our lives, invading our daily existence in every sense, from our daily schedules to our values and ideology. Paradoxically, as labour grows more automated, its purpose in turn becomes ever more alien. Constructed and shot using scrap materials, this short stop-motion video explores themes of repetition and labour through absurd vignettes of a character performing an unknown Sisyphean task.