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This installation is a video of two men stretching wires at a railway site that has disappeared, reminiscent of their former work. The film is shown in the waiting room of the former Noto railway Minami-Kuromaru Station, and there is a glass sculpture of the film on the railway track site. The artist dedicates it to the discontinued Noto Railways and the people who worked for it.
Simon Starling
Simon Starling was born in Epsom, England, in 1967. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art, and was professor of fine arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt from 2003 to 2013. Starling won the Turner Prize in 2005 and was shortlisted for the Hugo Boss Prize in 2004. He represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2003 and has had solo exhibitions at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Monash University Museum of Art in Melbourne, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne in Vitry-sur-Seine, Museo Experimental El Eco in Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Nottingham Contemporary, Le Musée Régional d'Art Contemporain Occitanie in Sérignan, Power Plant in Toronto, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in Germany, Tate Britain in London, The Common Guild in Glasgow, and Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin. Starling lives in Copenhagen.
Duration September 4th(Sat)－October 24th(Sun) 2021, 51 days
Feel the power of art at “the furthest edge of the world.”
Suzu City is located in the center of the Japanese archipelago, at the tip of the Noto Peninsula, jutting out into the Japan Sea. The natural beauty of its satoyama and satoumi has remained to this day. We are blessed with an abundance of good food, and above all, wondeful resident people.
The spread of the novel coronavirus had a major impact on society and economies worldwide, and it was inevitable that the Oku-Noto Triennale postpone for one year. We have been preparing for the Oku-Noto Triennale2020+ in hopes that it will be an opportunity to reconnect divided countries and people.
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The eight islands of Japan sprang into existence through Divine Intervention.The first two gods who came into existence were Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto, the Exalted Male and Exalted Female. It was their job to make the land for people to live on.They went to the bridge between heaven and earth and, using a jewel-encrusted halberd, Izanagi and Izanami churned up the sea into a frothy foam. As salty drips of water fell from the tip of the halberd the first island was formed. Its name was Onogoro.So far, so good. But when Izanagi and Izanami first met on their island, Izanami spoke to Isanagi without being spoken to first. Since she was the female, and this was improper, their first union created badly-formed offspring who were sent off into the sea in boats.The next time they met, Izanagi was sure to speak first, ensuring the proper rules were followed, and this time they produced eight children, which became the islands of Japan.I'm sure you did not fail to miss the significance of this myth for the establishment of Japanese formal society.At present, Japan is the financial capital of Asia. It has the second largest economy in the world and the largest metropolitan area (Tokyo.)Technically there are three thousand islands making up the Japanese archipelago. Izanagi and Izanami must have been busy little devils with their jewelled halberd...Japan's culture is highly technical and organized. Everything sparkles and swooshes on silent, miniaturized mechanisms.They're a world leader in robotics, and the Japanese have the longest life-expectancy on earth.Text by Steve Smith.
