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photo: Tatsuhiko Nakagawa
Satsuki Imai
I’m making artworks and creating a space that I co-create with the viewer under the themes of playground, co-creation, and 'communication'. Then it uses the forms and techniques of communication and participatory artwork.
The background of my own work is largely related to video games. I have been familiar with video games since I was a child, and from my own experiences, I thought that games and play helped me grow and connected me to other people, and I dreamed of becoming a video game creator. While studying at a specialized university to become a video game creator, I came across contemporary art and felt a similarity and affinity with video games in that art "allows you to think and experience things at a distance from your own place and consciousness", and became interested in doing so in a public space.
I began making artworks by incorporating elements I had learned from games, such as 'allowing the player to become the protagonist', 'creating an experience in which the player feels he or she can change the future through participation, and 'connecting people to people'.
In my own work, 'Raybox', I aimed to create a vision that only visitors could create using their own daily lives as material by creating a device that creates a kaleidoscope from the viewer's belongings. In 'Beginning Your Heart, by creating a space in which flowers made by the viewers gradually change the landscape of a rock cave made of inorganic materials, the artist attempted to present the possibility of changing the landscape into a beautiful one through the involvement of people. In 'Human Sushi', the viewers themselves became the ingredients of a giant nori maki (seaweed roll) and, while being rolled, collaborated with the artist in making their own nori maki, aiming for a creative activity with a new physical sensation.
Each work is produced and presented in a style in which the viewer becomes the protagonist of the work and creates it as if playing along with the creator.
It is like I have created a 'playground' where I connect with others, the viewers, through the medium of my work and invite them to join me. I put the feeling of "I want to be friends with you" into my work and welcome the viewers with nervousness myself. The unexpected communication with the viewer, which is always different and which is created by the viewer's involvement and by the fact that everything transforms me, the artist, into a new self, And through this exchange, the 'objects' I have created—the apparatus, the inorganic cave, and the seaweed roll—are sublimated into 'works of art, such as the one and only kaleidoscope's vision, the blooming flower landscape, and the Human Sushi. This experiment in art is a playground with no correct answers, where both the artist and the viewer realize firsthand that in this age of increasing division and prejudice, it is possible to create new experiences, new selves, new thoughts, and new worlds through mutual relations with others outside oneself. I also believe that this can be attempted through art, which allows us to think about, orient towards, and experiment with human richness, sensitivity, individuality, and the meaning of life.
Career
2022 Completed doctor program, the Department of Inter Media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts
2017 Completed master program, the Department of Inter Media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts
2013 Completed master program, the Department of Design, Aichi University of the Arts
2011 Graduated bachelor program, the Department of Animation and Game,Tokyo Polytechnic University
Exhibition history
2022 "IN : ACT BẾN NGỌC THỤỴ BY NHÀ SÀN COLLECTIVE" (WH22 Nha San Queer House/ Kassel, Germany)
2022 "Just Rolllllll" (Fridericianum Museum Gudkitchen (Backyard) / Kassel, Germany)
2021 2022 Tokyo University of the Arts Doctoral Program Final Exhibition(Tokyo University of the Arts Art Museum / Tokyo)
2020 "INSIDE DIVERSITY " (Ueno Station Break Gallery / Tokyo)
2020 "Making is praying" (OIL by Bijutsu Techo / Tokyo)
2020 "The Struggle for Tomorrow " (3331 ART FAIR / Tokyo)
2019 `` Precious situation '' (Digital Hollywood University / Tokyo)
2018 "Atlas Exhibition " (Tokyo University of the Arts, University Art Museum / Ibaraki)
2018 "TURN Festival 4 " (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum / Tokyo)
2018 `` Children's Korabo Lab '' (Art Tower Mito / Ibaraki)
2018 `` Meaningless, something like '' (Museum of the beginning / Fukushima)
2017 "TURN Festival 3 " (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum / Tokyo)
2017 "Felt Stelke International-Culture City of East Asia 2017-Public Presentation " (Kyoto Art Center / Kyoto)
2017 "TURN Festival 2 " (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum / Tokyo)
2017 "Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation / Completion Exhibition " (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum / Tokyo University of the Arts / Tokyo)
2015 "TURN Festival " (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum / Tokyo)
2015 Solo exhibition "이랏 샤이 마세 ~ Welcome Exhibition ~ " (gallery bonun / Seoul)
2015 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music × Ecole des Beaux-Arts international joint project "I and nature" (Echigo Tsumari Triennial / Niigata)
2014 "Human Nori Roll " Guerrilla Performance (Plaza in front of Pompidou Center / Paris)
2013 "Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts Graduation / Completion Exhibition " (Aichi Prefectural Arts and Culture Center / Nagoya)
2013 "TETSUSON 2013 " (Bank ART studio NYK / Yokohama)
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