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Video Instalation music by Carl Stone The photographs are of my older sister & I..... They recall the calm & ordinary life of the people in those days. They were taken in the early 1940's when the Japanese Army was invading other Asian countries and attacked Pearl Harbor. Currently, Japan is enjoying a similarly calm period while Japanese troops are stationed in Iraq. Isn't there a similarity between now and then around us? Using my own family album and past documentary photos of the Japanese Army, I intend to visualize the dissociation between the life of ordinary citizens and current military movements. Just as in the past, Japan is experiencing a calm period without realizing it is involved in a war! Let us look and think about the condition we are now facing! by Mako Idemitsu |
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at MOT - Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo January 15, 2005 - March 21, 2005 MOT annual 2005 life actually; The works of contemporary Japanese women Living Under the Difficult Conditions of Today's Japan Many works of art have appeared that reflect the realities of the present age. Today's artist's are engaged in a reassessment of their personal relationship to the changes taking place in such things as the modern family system, the employment system, the community, other people,and views of history. Their work is based on the living of everyday life and is deeply immersed in "life actually .” In Affillation with Women's Worlds 2005: The 9 th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women: Media in "f" June 21-30, 2005 Ewha Art Center, Ewha Woman's' University, Seoul
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