June 30, 2009

<talk about wasted>テキストインタビュー(1)

はじめまして。stanp ボンヌと申します。

stanp (steering commitee of Tokyo Art Network Project)とはアート活動のサポートを目的として、おもしろそうなプロジェクトの周辺に時々出現する団体です。

このたび、wastedプロジェクトをより多くの人に知ってもらうための情報サイト<talk about wasted>を立ち上げました。

wastedに関するQ&Aやテキスト(全5回)、音声(全6回)によるインタビューによってwastedをひもといてみようとしています。
このサイトがきっかけとなって誰かとどこかでwastedについて語り合うきっかけになれば幸いです。

さて、第1回のテキストインタビューは
そもそもwastedをあなたはどこで、いつ知りました?
実は、少しずつプロジェクトが変化していたということ、ご存知でし
たか?

wasted向井山朋子テキストインタビュー/プロジェクトの変遷


ボンヌ(from stanp)
[talk about wasted] by stanp

imitating female



“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.” Simone de Beauvoir


See you next time,

Annelot

Projectassistant 'wasted'

June 19, 2009

architects' unit CUT



Architect unit CUT 牛島です。
この度wastedの空間デザインをCUTで担当しています。
写真は14日に行われた全体ミーティングでの様子です。

CUTとは千葉大学のOBと大学院生、計11人により構成されている集団です。
現在、このwastedを中心として、秦野市の間伐材を利用したパブリックファニチャア、都市計画コンペなどを行っています。

wastedのオランダでのモックアップ作成は成功したのですが、現在も妻有・越後に向けて構造や照明、細かいディテールの検討を進めています。

今後とも宜しくお願いします。

I’m Ushijima, a member of architect unit CUT.
We have to do with the space design of ‘wasted’.
These photo are the scene of our meeting on June 14th .

CUT consists of 11 members who are the alumni and graduate school students of Chiba University.
Now, we tackle ‘wasted’ mainly, but also urban design competition and design public furniture made of wood in the city of Hadano.

We succeeded in the open house in the Netherlands but reexamine the structure, lighting system and details for Echigo-Tsumari.

We will do our best for ‘wasted’ !

牛島 隆敬 Takahiro Ushijima
CUT (Chiba University Team)

Karl Marx and menstruation

Something will open up, some new connections will be made and something will run out. Blood. That will be blood. My blood. Mother is talking like a distant robot and pointing at the terrible drawing in a scary book. Drawing looks like a upblown face of drunken hedgehog, and that’s supposed to be mine inner organs where new connections will be made soon. I try to think of something else, since mother is serious and distant. But I remember that blood will run out. The name of that is menstruation. And when it will start, it will be there each month. It´s 1983, Soviet Union is in the grey years of stigmatization and the book is exactly as grey as a face of a communist party leader Leonid Brezhnev. I want to escape thoughts of menstruation and the heaviness of communist party. Impossible. Both of that.
So when I got menstruation for the first time I was prepared. Mother wasn’t around, it was school holidays and I was in my grandmothers place. I was smart enough to sneak around in here linen and I fund what I needed – a big peace of cotton.
To walk around with a big peaces of cotton in panties was a constant remaining of some unpredictable, indescribable shame. It was uncomfortable, stinky and a bit risky. One day I was stroked by a sudden thought that every woman around me had to go trough those worries once a month. Besides the pain in a stomach had all of us to walk around with those slimy, betradiory sausages of cotton between our legs and watch up for running blood. It must not be seen or discovered by someone else.
In 1988 we got a new paper in Latvia, a weekly issue printed by a new organization - Peoples Front Movement. The result of Perestroika. Paper had a lots of good articles, plus political statements and plans for the changes in society. A brave, fresh breeze in a public arena. The editor was a known female journalist and as a chef she got to be the first one from the paper who visited some Western country. She reported that the ”rottening capitalism” was fare away from rottening. And as one of examples she printed a description of something unbelievably practical – panty posts. There it was. A picture of something delicate, designed for a use in catastrophes. I don’t remember any other article until today from a newspaper ”Awakening” except that little one with a small picture in black and white.
Two years later I was on my first trip to a capitalistic country by my self. On my way to Norway I had to stop in Sweden, and stay a night in Stockholm, where fortunately one of my co-travelers knew a Latvian family with a flat near the railway station. In the evening in this flat I saw that a monthly period had started. And there in the bath room I saw with my own eyes a little cute product witch proved for me for all the times that capitalism was not rottening. I held in my arms a smart, smart, smart invention – a little package in thin plastic cover, a panty post. It was made to sit in the panties and not to slide out as a loose bit of cotton does. It was made to help human beings and not to accuse them. While I held it in my arms I felt so sorry for all those years in my and my mother’s, and all soviet women’s lives with a fights in our panties, caused by clumsy cotton peaces, that I was speechless. Overwhelmed and speechless. My hart bumped in joy and relief. In my mind there was a storm – who, who was responsible for all this, all this fear for unpredictable shame in all those years? It had to be Karl Marx. He was always the basic and fundament in the great soviet ideology. Reason for Red Revolution and the outcome of everything denied for us, poor soviet citizens. So I started to course Karl Marx. He was a thief of the unknown happiness, he and all other men in the Red Revolution. May you be there in Your graves without the blood while we will enjoy a feeling of purity and civilized hygiene. A feeling of relief.
That was what I felt in Stockholm, 23. August 1990. With a blue plastic pad in my arm.

Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen

June 18, 2009

500回

昭和初期やそれ以前、妊娠・授乳期間が長かった女性が一生で経験する月経回数はたったの50回程度だったとか。昭和20~30年代になると200~300回、そして現代女性の平均生涯月経は400~500回といわれている。なんと戦前のおよそ10倍!
初経年齢が低くなっていること、晩婚化、少子化が進んでいることはよく聞くが、月経回数の数字にこれだけ違いがあるとは、あらためて驚かされる。

女性の身体はずっと子どもを産む準備をし続けている。


市村貴絵
wasted日本実行委員会

June 16, 2009

strings

TOMOKO WANTS A MARLIES DEKKERS.

Tomoko wants a marlies dekkers, becaulse Marieke has a marlies dekkers-string.

But, I have big news about this string (not the Marlies Dekkers one).

In the city Yakima in the U.S, you have to go to jail for 90 days and pay a fine of 800 dollar if you show it in public. like this....

TOMOKO YOU ARE IN BIG TROUBLE IF YOU BUY THIS NEW MARLIES DEKKERS-STRING.

I don`t know what this has to do with wasted,but I just wanted to tell you guys.

x. kiri.ko


June 14, 2009

wo-man


It's great to be a woman, but what pleasure I find in acting like a man....

What makes a man and what makes a woman?
What is a woman without -w[h]o?

Counting down for our first encounter in Japan of 'wasted'....
My moustache curls even more when I think of it.


Marieke
project manager 'wasted'

June 12, 2009

Glenn Gould's Goldberg-Variationen

As you know this is Dr. Hannibal Lecter's favourite music in
'The Silence of the Lambs'

あまりにも有名なグレングールドのゴールドベルグ変奏曲。

Tomoko

June 11, 2009

fatboy

We are on fatboy's news!

June 09, 2009

wasted in Tokyo

お待たせしました。
東京、深川でのwasted−ピアノコンサートのチケットが
発売開始になりました。
お誘い合わせの上、ご来場ください。
チラシはこちらからご覧いただけます

向井山朋子ピアノコンサート 深川から越後妻有へ

  2009年7月16日(木) 19:30開演
  2009年7月17日(金) 19:30開演
  *16日のみ公演後アーティストトークあり
  (ゲスト:小池一子 クリエイティヴディレクター)

  門仲天井ホール 東京都江東区門前仲町 1-20-3-8F
  
  入場料: 前売一般 3500円 学生2500円
          (当日は各500円増し)1ドリンク付き 

  お問合せ:門仲天井ホール TEL 03-3641-8275
          公演情報ページはこちら
 
越後妻有アートトリエンナーレでのインスタレーションの発表に先駆け、
東京、深川でwastedオープニングとしてのマルチメディアコンサートが初演されます。
向井山朋子はピアノを機にクラシック音楽の金字塔、J.S.バッハの「ゴルトベルク変奏曲」を縦糸、現代を生きる女性たちの思いを横糸にして織り込んでいきます。6カ国に先立ち、深川が世界の女性たちを繋いでいく試みの出発点となります。

wasted project team

June 02, 2009

New 'wasted' Project Assistant:
Annelot Dits

After the successful try-out of wasted at the Grand Theatre Groningen, I have become the new wasted project assistant for the Tomoko Mukaiyama Foundation. I feel very excited to be part of this wonderful project and I look forward to work with Marieke Peters and Tomoko Mukaiyama. I hope to meet many of you soon.

Kind regards,
Annelot Dits
Project Assistant wasted


June 01, 2009

Hello from Prague!

After seeing pictures from Groningen, we are really excited to have the exhibition in Prague. At the moment we are working on getting more money for wasted and preparing all the things around the venue - negotiating the date, technical details etc. The venue, where our project is going to be is hosting The Prague Biennale at the moment, have a look at:
http://www.praguebiennale.cz/cz/praguebiennale/o-vystave/

See you with more news soon



Radka
project coordinator Prague