toshiaki tomita

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Artist book Could you come or not come to our hometown? is exhibited combined with serious of videos, which shows the encounter of the boys who gave the title of the work. Everything was set on the floor directly, so the audience must bend their knees to read the artwork, suggesting the change of view to the lowest.
With my works which employing cross-disciplinary fields of research, I was expected to bridge the gap between fine arts and folklore study. Since the host of my solo show was held by TUAD, Tohoku University of Arts & Design, which embraces Tohoku (north east) cultural research centre. Open talks with famous folklorists were arranged during the show.
In Could you come or not come to our hometown? that was exhibited with other works of mine in TUAD, I tried to talk about identity shaken by meeting with the others in a field work, possibility of alternating currents of communication, and being flexible to grasp in new and uncomfortable paradigm of others.