村上タカシ氏、企画による中学校での展覧会。
この作品は、チリゴミを使用しての初作品。
数日前から、学校の掃除を中止してもらい、私が3階建ての校舎全室を4時間掛けて掃除し、一つの教室にそのチリゴミだけを敷き詰めた作品です。
私にとって中学は風化した記憶。日本で教員は聖職者と呼ばれるほどの職業であり、当時の僕には一固まり、数十人が教員一人と対等だったような気がしていました。
また、チリゴミの無い教壇は過去の聖域を表しています。
中学校で作品を作ろうと下見に来たとき、机側と教壇側を眺めていると時間の流れから来る視線の変化が、この作品を作らせたように思います。
そんな私が、今では教員免許を取得して、あの頃考えもしない事でした。
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This exhibition was held at a junior high school under
the auspices of Mr. Takashi Murakami.
It was the first time I used dust as a material for my work. In one of
the classrooms, I spread the dust all over, which I gathered by cleaning
the whole three-story school for four hollrs which I asked not to be swept
for several days.
In my schooldays, the students didn't seem to be on equal terms with the
teachers.
They had a powerful authority in the school. As teacher is a highly regarded
job
often compared to clergy in Japan, I represented its holiness by putting
no dust on
the platform in the classroom. Preparing at the school, I realized how
the classroom looked differently from when I was a student.
I would never have guessed that I obtained a teacher's license from college.
The gap of views between student and teacher made me create this work.
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