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Kosai Hori "Reading​-​Affair" CD

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Track 1 "MEMORY-PRACTICE (Reading-Affair) Paris / 1977"
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Track 3 "REPORT Vol.3 1973"
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Track 4 "REPORT Vol.4 1973"
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堀浩哉「リーディング・アフェア」CD

細切れにされた言葉と音響機器が発するハウリングがどこにもたどり着くことなく浮遊し、堆積する。堀浩哉が1977年にパリで上演した《MEMORY-PRACTICE (Reading-Affair)》は、意味の残骸からなる廃墟をさまようかのような経験をもたらす。「文化的廃墟を創出せよ」は1969年に生まれ、堀が議長を務めた美大生からなる学生運動グループ、美術家共闘会議(通称、美共闘)のスローガンだった。

1947年生まれの日本の美術家、堀浩哉はこれまで1977年「パリ・ビエンナーレ」、1984年「ヴェニス・ビエンナーレ」など数多くの国際展に参加し、現在も絵画作品とパフォーマンス作品の発表を続けている。60年代末、多摩美術大学在学中に美共闘議長を務めたときの彼の言葉「今、美術家と呼ばれているなら、そこが戦場だ」は、近代美術システムと、その外部に出ようとした日本の前衛運動をともに批判するものだった*1。このころより、彼はバリケードの内でも外でもなく、バリケードそのものである境界線の上に立つことを信条としてきた。

本作品集は、堀が美共闘解散後、彦坂尚嘉、山中信夫、刀根康尚らと芸術運動として美共闘REVOLUTION委員会を結成し、活動していた70年代に発表された作品の記録である。この時期、彼はテープレコーダー、タイプライター、ヴィデオなどのメディアを用いたパフォーマンスと、色、線などの造形の基本的な要素をテーマとする造形作品を並行して制作していた。78年以降、堀は絵画に専念し、特異な層状の絵画空間を生みだしていく。90年代末にパフォーマンスを再開するまで、70年代のパフォーマンスは顧みられる機会が少なかった。ここに収録された音源はどれも堀の元に残されていたものである。こうした記録はようやく近年になって詳細が明らかになってきた。

70年代の日本では、堀と同世代──団塊(ベビーブーム)世代──の多くの美術家がテープレコーダーを用いてたくさんの作品を制作した。これらの作品には、先行する美術動向の批判的継承だけでなく、70年代日本のメディア環境との関連も見てとれる。そのなかでも堀の一連の作品は、その数やヴァリエーションのみから見ても、きわめて重要な位置にある。

Torn-up words and the howling of sound equipment drift nowhere as they keep accumulating in space. This is what Kosai Hori presented at the Biennale de Paris in 1977, a performance piece titled MEMORY-PRACTICE (Reading-Affair), which would invite audiences to walk through a ruin filled with the debris of what once had meaning. “Create cultural ruins” was the slogan of Bijutsuka Kyoto Kaigi [Council of artists for a United Front] (also known as Bikyoto), a group that Hori founded together with art students in 1969.

Born in 1947 in Japan, Hori has participated in a variety of international exhibitions, including the Biennale de Paris in 1977 and the 41st Venice Biennale in 1984, and has stayed active in the fields of painting and performance art. While still enrolled at Tama Art University and leading Bikyoto in the late 1960s, Hori coined the famous words “Today, if we are called artists, then that is our battleground,” criticizing not only the systems that control modern art, but also the Japanese avant-garde movements that had tried to escape from those institutional straightjackets*1. Since those days, he is neither inside or outside that barricade, but has made it a matter of principle to stand atop the boundary line that is the barricade itself.

This collection is a selection of Hori’s works from the 1970s, a time in which he organized an art movement called Bikyoto REVOLUTION Committee together with artists like Naoyoshi Hikosaka, Nobuo Yamanaka and Yasunao Tone. In those days, Hori’s performance pieces employed various media such as tape recorders, typewriters and video cameras, while also creating plastic pieces that explored the theme of basic formal elements like colors and lines. After 1978, Hori devoted himself to painting, pioneering a uniquely layered painterly space in his work. Until he came back to performance in the late 1990s, chances to look back at Hori’s performance pieces from the 70’s have been scarce. This collection is made possible thanks to the sound materials that the artist himself has preserved. It has been only in recent years that the details concerning these recordings have come to surface.

In 1970s Japan, Hori and many of his contemporaries, artists from the generation called Dankai (or “baby boomers”) produced a number of works with the help of tape-recorders. Those works can be understood not only as a critical succession of preceding generations’ artistic legacies but also as a reflection of the Japanese media environment back in the 1970s. Among that of his peers, Hori’s production is outstanding in terms of the number and variation of outputs, which can by itself place it into a significant position in this context.


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released September 1, 2019

Production|Edition OMEGA POINT / Japanese Art Sound Archive
Text|Tomotaro Kaneko
Design|Tadao Kawamura
English Translation|Masamichi Tamura
English Proofreading|Aquiles Hadjis
Photo|Takashi Yada, Jeff Rothstein
Thanks to Erize Hori

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Throughout the history of Japanese art, there has been artists that filled museums, galleries, studios and other public spaces with all sorts of sounds. In most cases, however, once the sound faded, it couldn’t be heard again. Japanese Art Sound Archives is a project that aims to collect those often inaccessible sound activities of the past and make them more accessible for consultation. ... more

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