NADI Gallery 

Curated by Kayoko Iemura

jl.Kembang Indah lll Blok G3 / 4-5 Puri Indah

Jakarta Barat 11610

 

opening / December 2,2015 ~ January 8, 2016

open/ Monday - Friday. 10:00 - 19:00

Saturday and  Sunday. 10:00 ~ 14:00

closed on National holidays

 

 

The contemporary people, who became aware of a time flow of nature through the experience of the great earthquake and the tsunami that occur every thousand years, learned that the pollution of nuclear power plant as an extremity of the modern people’s desire will affect and not disappear for another million years. Nevertheless, we, who live in the time that rushes us to work faster, for tomorrow, for several hours, for dozens of seconds, are trying to finish this event in just a several years. However, the action, the answer, and the decision that are created through a vision based on the passage of thousands or millions year- time span should work much more effectively.

It is said that Terma is to be excavated by a certain person after passage of a certain period of time. It is said that Terma can be found in the deep under the ground, the bottom of the sea, in the sky, and sometimes in our minds. Here, now, I excavate and produce wisdom that will be endlessly handed over to the celestial beings that live hundred millions of years with the sages in our era who are enlightened by this notion of time. It is in this letter of a million years I dedicate to humanity.

 

The Cabinet of the earth

What is going on under the ground?

Exactly we are standing on the DEAD LINE of mankind and the earth. To tell it from those who feel it in the daily life is a serious scream. On the other hand, those who think that it is too big issue and put it away, try to convince that it did not happen any and give themselves up to pleasure. But because it is the moment that might become the downfall of the human race and the earth, we should synthesize wisdom of the history of mankind, and listen to the long earth history,

MAIZOUKYOU -a million years of the letter project, present and inform that we are standing in the DEAD LINE of humanity through representing the Fukushima actual situation more tactile. And this project dug up the wisdom of mankind, also while creating a lot of dialogue, and it is an attempt to produce the wisdom for life to tell a long time.

This time to do so, while digging up the Taro Okamoto and Arakawa Shusaku & Madeline Gins on the main, Takashi Kuribayashi presents an experimental plan to take over its wisdom. Also, in this place it is, on an ongoing basis, a dialogue that produces the wisdom of life that carried over to the next generation and the future, with great cry and prayer.

 

 

Vortex 2015 - The letter of Albert Einstein

It looks like a beautiful glass chandelier but in fact it is the shape of the nuclear reactor’s core.
And it presents the letter from Albert Einstein to Franklin Delano Roosevelt on August 2, 1939. It is said that this letter was the beginning of the development of the atomic bomb. It was written that Germany might develop atomic bombs and suggested that the United States should start its own nuclear program. The power balance is the key for not using atomic bomb. But after 3 years the Manhattan Project was developing the first atomic bombs. And they used atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 1945.
This letter is the beginning of the accident of Fukushima nuclear power plant, too. To deactivate the radioactive, spent nuclear fuels are formed into glass and that explains the glass letters used in this artwork. These letters cannot be read directly. We need to turn them over so that we can read them from their shadow.

2015, glass, light, string, 200 x 230 x 230 cm.

 

 

What is going on under the ground?
Exactly we are standing on the DEAD LINE of mankind and the earth. To tell it from those who feel it in the daily life is a serious scream. On the other hand, those who think that it is too big issue and put it away, try to convince that it did not happen any and give themselves up to pleasure. But because it is the moment that might become the downfall of the human race and the earth, we should synthesize wisdom of the history of mankind, and listen to the long earth history,
MAIZOUKYOU -100 million years of the letter project, present and inform that we are standing in the DEAD LINE of humanity through representing the Fukushima actual situation more tactile. And this project dug up the wisdom of mankind, also while creating a lot of dialogue, and it is an attempt to produce the wisdom for life to tell a long time.
This time to do so, while digging up the Taro Okamoto and Arakawa Shusaku & Madeline Gins on the main, Takashi Kuribayashi presents an experimental plan to take over its wisdom. Also, in this place it is, on an ongoing basis, a dialogue that produces the wisdom of life that carried over to the next generation and the future, with great cry and prayer.

2015, mixed media (wood, leaf, lamp, fecon, bag..., variable dimension

 

 

The Red Book - The Ritual of Decontamination

< the decontamination work of the radiation will take so long, so that it will become a ritual to change the depth of the human race. >

The title of this piece, The Red Book, is taken from “The Red Book” of Carl Gustav Yung. He became mentally unstable before the First World War. He wrote down the image that rises from his dream and awareness, and into it he added his interpretation and vision. The book was kept safely until he passed away in 2009, it was not published. The war became an opportunity for people must go landed in the source of civilization and the soul.

Fukushima nuclear power plant accident -not just simply an ‘accident’-, is a crisis situation, which also related to annihilation of humankind. The pollution will be continued in units of one million years. Among them, the day-to-day decontamination work by many people, removing contaminated objects, plants and topsoil, packed them into a black flexible container bag will keep going on. The worker wears a white protective clothing and protective mask. Intermediate storage and also a temporary storage location are very difficult to find. To a certain extent, provisional temporary storage will be sufficient, but still black Flecon bags stacked everywhere. All around the area is wrapped in black and white color; the working area of decontamination is spanned by the pink flag.

For those that are not visible to the eye such as radium, after the work that endanger the life, every day and boggling length, continues much longer every day than the existing religion, it will be one of the religious ceremonies and in other words it is a decontamination ritual. The biggest crisis is imminent that it landed in origin of civilization and soul to us. And it would deeply penetrate longer, precisely to the deep level of human because it is invisible.

2015, video, 4:28 min.

 

 

The Path to the Reversal Site

<This road has been guided to the world was reversed>

After the 9.11, dialogue and understanding between the multi-culture, especially in the Islamic culture, it was required as urgent. Takashi and artists from Lebanon, Iran, Turkey, Israel, Indonesia, Germany, Japan spent time eating, drinking, playing, having dialogue together and shared some experiences for three months in Tokyo. And then Takashi’s stall, YATAI was created. For them to work together was prohibited by law, they could not take photos together, they also could not talk in public together. Takashi’s stall was opened and they shared and ate their local cuisine, mixing them in their belly and digesting. Finally his stall was a platform to get rid of the border. Thereafter, the Yatai trip headed to the border of South Korea and North Korea, also traveled back and forth across the sea border of the South Korea and Japan. In addition, around the various regions of Singapore multi-ethnic live, Takashi opened the Yatai at the pipeline that connects Singapore and Malaysia, while enjoying both the music and food with people he met in the region by chance, it was an exchanging of feelings with each other. Also he did some Yatai Trips, and then went to Nepal. “I want to confirm how far I can live. So I also dive into the sea. And I want to know how high I can live. In order to know the limit, I climbed with the Yatai up the 4000m class mountains of Nepal”, Takashi said. In the small private inn on his way, a girl showed them a fascinating Buddha image as a guardian that is usually put away in the back. In Nepal Mountains, they got the real senses of a place where gods dwell. They returned from the quite height of soul to Japan. In turn, the Great East Japan Earthquake happened! It referred to as a degree of surprise that the heavens and the earth were overturned. The heaven and earth, the future and the past were reversed!

<It cannot be seen with powerful boundary pollution>
Takashi came from Nagasaki.
The nuclear bomb was dropped in Nagasaki in 1945. After 66 years, the nuclear power plants that had ... times the energy of the atomic bomb, were attacked by the huge tsunami.
From the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, Takashi started his journey to follow the history of some energy bases. Aomori nuclear re-processing plant -abandoned mines Island, Gunkanjima Island -sinking gradually, the biggest coal mine in Japan, Yubari Coal Mine -around the Fukushima nuclear power plants. Even if energy is changed, problems created are common. The coalmine gate where the large fire occurred was sealed and nobody is able to enter. It’s similar in having restricted area of 20 km zone around the Fukushima nuclear power plant. The powerful boundary appeared by the accident. The nuclear submarine Nautilus, BWR (Boiling Water Reactor) and those of the Fukushima nuclear power plant is the same type. It can be said that 50 years ago the nuclear ship went up to the land and became the nuclear power plant. On the other hand, the pollution situation in the sea was not quite opened. In order to draw attention to that fact, Takashi was surfing at the sea in front of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants. It was at the risk of his life. New surfboard with the charcoal and fern was made by colleagues. It is like a previous ritual before risking his life. His soul was purified in Nepal, It was the path that must be passed and led Takashi to the way that directed him to the nuclear accident caused by the great earthquake. It was one of the important rituals towards the big crisis by invisible forces.