A Blow to the Everyday | (last)intervention

::A Blow to the Everyday::

10.10.2009–29.11.2009

Opening reception: 09.10.2009

Curator: Yuko Hasegawa

Artists: Chim↑Pom, Hiroki Kehara, Meiro Koizumi, Masayoshi Koyama, Kenichi Ogaiwara, Yukihiro Taguchi, Tadasu Takamine, Wah

A Blow to the Everyday signifies a call to transform and awaken everyday awareness by embroiling people in collective fantasies and horrors and other provocative documents. It also implies questioning, through the practice of contemporary Japanese artists, the kind of involvement the individual activities of artists can have with communities and society at large and the kinds of communication and imagination they can stimulate in late-finance capitalist Japan.

A Blow to the Everyday is also the story of the survival of the artists concerned, as well an attempt to recall the reality of a different life through involvement with situations and people in the city. Their projects are nonsensical and absurd and may at times even appear to resemble the actions of the mythical figure Sisyphus. However, they also represent an earnest exploration of the possibilities of the only exchanges possible in the context of the actuality of the here and now.

::A Blow to the Everyday::

10.10.2009–29.11.2009

開幕酒會: 09.10.2009

策展人: Yuko Hasegawa

參展藝術家: Chim↑Pom, Hiroki Kehara, Meiro Koizumi, Masayoshi Koyama, Kenichi Ogaiwara, Yukihiro Taguchi, Tadasu Takamine, Wah

A Blow to the Everyday象徵著一種召喚 ──它試圖將人民捲入集體幻想、恐怖和其他挑釁行為的混亂當中，從而喚醒和改變人民對生活覺悟。同時，它又通過當代日本藝術家的藝術創作，對藝術家的個人活動跟社區以至整個社會的連繫，及他們如何在日本這個後資本主義經濟型社會激發溝通和想像提出質疑。

A Blow to the Everyday是一個關於這些藝術家在藝術世界求存的故事，同時亦試圖透過城市中不同的人物境況以提醒我們這些藝術家同時亦過著截然不同的現實生活。他們的創作是荒謬可笑的，有時甚至可能會出現Sisyphus等神話人物。然而，他們也代表了一種認真探索：探索在這種現實的語境下，在「此時此境」唯一可能發生的交流。