Features of
BABOT 5) Appearance disappearance |
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Things freely and repeatedly appear and disappear in a world of fairy tales of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "TheArabian Nights' Entertainment", and "An Old Man Realizing Cherry Blossoming on Dead Cherry Trees". Traditionally featuring seasonal changes in Japan are such temporary setups as "Nebuta (huge wooden-framed paper lantern)" in Aomori Prefecture, "Koinobori (cloth carp streamer)", "Hinaningyo (dolls displayed on tiers)", "Matsukazari (New Year's decoration pines)", and "Gifu-Jochin (Gifu paper lantern) for Obon (Festival for the Dead)" in Gifu Prefecture. All of these are used to produce spaces as they match with their occasions and activate daily scenes of routine life that tend to become otherwise boring and then taken away. They produce time and space filled with air of "Hare" or "Ke" (unexpected scene or usual sight). A pneumatic sculpture amply decorates a cold modern urban space as if it were such that the city wears a fashionable dress, and realizes a large scale device for the world of spectacular dream any place and any time in the space of daily life. |