Is Photography Art?
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Continuing in a radio style from the description of the “One and its Duplications”…
📻So, in that way, I had a lot of confidence when I completed the “One and its Duplications” part. At that time, it was getting a certain amount of buzz. It was limited to overseas, though.
It was so natural I decided that I had to announce it in the real world right away. I planned to hold an exhibition. That was the “Meteoroscape Exhibition” (2nd.project/2017).
Before that, I had the “Natsu-Kodachi Exhibition” (1st.project/2016) as a practice, still it was far from complete. While that time I was optimistic like, ‘someone would understand this “Meteoroscape Exhibition” soon, since it’s written in Japanese’.
However, my efforts were in vain, and no one understood.
Is that really possible? I thought Japan is already set at a suspicion level of 100. I was devastated at the time.
Well, it would be unfair if I didn’t say so, but I did receive a lot of ‘Likes’ for the photos I exhibited.
To be honest, I think this was the time when I received the most positive feedback for my photos.
But what shocked me at the time was when someone said to me something like, ‘[Art]?, what you say, is dragging down your [photography]’. I was surely expecting that DM would be a strong hook, and that it had completely backfired on me.
As a result, as far as that main issue was concerned, it was just a commemorative photo with people who looked Yakuza. They somehow caught a rumor, it seems. If Itsuki Kujo ever joins a production company and starts performing, I bet that picture will be sold to a weekly magazine and that will cause a big problem🙄.
But even if everything gets turned upside down, that kind of thing won’t happen.
Anyway, the “Meteoroscape Exhibition,” which was held in a forward-looking manner, ended up being a huge failure, and from that point on, we decided to shift from ‘Plan A,’ which was an aggressive plan, to ‘Plan B,’ which was a more aggressive plan.
But there were many things that we regretted at the exhibition. One of them was the problem of having too few friends. No matter how much buzz we got, no one cooperated with us.
There is a saying in Japan; X-MEN can be troublesome if it’s against you, but unreliable if it’s on your side.
I thought that was it!
Thus, the next project we planned was the “Emergent Properties Exhibition” (3rd. project/2018). In short, we planned to gather ‘real friends.’
Incidentally, the following “Omen, or at the Devil’s Magic Mountain” (4th. project/2019) and “Schrödinger’s Parasol” (5th. project/2019) exhibitions are in the same vein.
To be more precise, “Emergent Properties Exhibition” is an adaptation of the “Interior Art Introduction Program” into a ‘fundraising’ project, which was very popular at that time. The concept of the ‘Art,’ which was a bit like a personal version of Bitcoin, was not well understood, but it was rebuilt from this point and its quality has been being changed.
However, this is where Kujo made an even bigger mistake. He had screwed up! Aphorism I got from one of them is; “Don’t collect tokens in Design Art to express Contemporary Art.”
‘Real friends’ must be gathered in the same group. It is a betrayal to those who are committed to design.
We should have reflected it on in the “Meteoroscape Exhibition”. If you are committed to contemporary art, you should have collected tokens in contemporary art photography.
This is just like the cause of which, no matter how many English sentences you parse in Japanese, you will never be able to read them. “Attention Is All You Need”, they’ve already said. If resources are not simple enough, ‘emergence’ will not occur.
Well, my apologies, but it was the time when Japanese people were fighting each other with sords, saying “what is contemporary art photo?” ,”what is contemporary art in the first place” or “aren’t they all the same?”
So that’s where I started. ☝️😇
It was why I had no choice but to explain everything from scratch.
Continues on to the description of the “Individual and Emergent Properties.”
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