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「女書」フィールドワーク覚え書き ---2007年9月、女書の現地調査の学者の方々に同行して、中国湖南省江永県へ。2002年の女書との出会い以来初めて足を踏み入れる女書の地、女書世代以降の女書後継者たち、何艶新との出会いと彼女が扇に書いてくれた女書の手紙、女書が伝わる村々、陽煥宜の家、花山廟など娘々廟民間信仰、結交姉妹／老同の風習。女書という悲しく美しい負の記号の残り香を旅した記憶を綴ったアーティストノート。

Missing Links -「自伝」 - ---シドニー、ロックス地区の港の倉庫を舞台に行った「女書」プロジェクト第二弾。 国家にその存在を認識されることがなかった中国辺境の女性文化。漢字教育の機会を付与されなかった彼女たちは自ら発明した文字『女書』で自分たちの個人史を書き残していた。その文字『女書』もまたその起源から現在まで正史とは無縁の存在であった。今回はオーストラリア建国の歴史においても語られることのなかった女性のディアスポラの物語に重ね、かつて移民の玄関口であったシドニー港を望む空間に、「女書」の声なき「物語」＝「歴史」をインスタレーションで紡ぐ。---2007年・シドニー　旧ASN Warehouse

The Golden Pavilion 「金閣寺」---国宝焼失の裏に潜む破壊と創造のコード。実在の事件、三島由紀夫の「金閣寺」、高林陽一の映画「金閣寺」の中に死と再生の系譜を見る。断片化したスクリーン上に高林陽一の「金閣寺」のクライマックスシーンを独特の手法で甦らせたインスタレーション。[Opening Night コラボレーション] with 古澤侑峯(地歌舞)、荒井姿水(薩摩琵琶)。---2006年・上海ビエンナーレ・サテライトプロジェクト・日本パビリオン (上海創意産業区）

H Project---旧横浜商工奨励館の左右対象の構造をもつ二つの電話室。脳における「右半球」・「左半球」のアナロジーを使いこの二つの電話室を「右半球室」と「左半球室」に置き換える。両半球室の情報が来場者の思考の中で統合された時、ひとつの概念が誕生するというサイトスペシフィック・アート・プロジェクト。---2005年・横浜トリエンナーレ・サテライトプロジェクト

Nu Shu Art Project {女書アートプロジェクト}---上海・M50(莫干山路50号）でのアーティスト・イン・レジデンス＆ワークショッププロジェクト。中国湖南省江永県。ここに女性だけに伝わる謎の起源をもつ文字「女書」がある。繊細で美しい文字の裏に隠れている希有な文化体系と自らの文字を発明するに至った女性たちの数奇な歴史。多くのことが解明されぬまま消滅の運命を辿る女書の世界を暗号化した30,000個のスワロフスキーで綴ったインスタレーション。---2004年・上海・M50 ・EASTLINK(莫干山路50号）

Psychotopography -「心理の地理学」----解体目前の目黒区の日本家屋でのサイトワーク。家という空間構造を人間の心理構造を表す記号に置換。家の記憶にまつわる様々な心理の状態をインスタレーションによって視覚化する。[One night コラボレーション] with YOTETS! + hidekeys(サウンド)、櫻井郁也(舞踏)。

-----------Recent Art Projects by YUCA ISHIZUKA-----------

Artist's note on Nushu fieldwork ---Observation and brief notes from the field trip to remote location in China where Nushu originated. In September 2007, I accompanied with academics for their fieldwork of Nushu to Jianyong county in Hunan province. This was my first experience setting my foot in this region since encountering this unusual script six years ago and have been intrigued ever since. Random thoughts from my memories of encountered post-Nushu transmitters unique villages, vernacular belief and customs, in trace of gendered space where this script was engendered.

Missing Links -Autobiography- ---A site-specific work on Nushu (see the first project on Nushu for explanation) developed at an old cultural heritage warehouse located in the Rocks, Sydney, commissioned by Terminus Project. This time the project focused on the remarkable fact that those unschooled women had left their autobiographies with their own devised script, Nushu. Due to its low profile and disinterest from men, neither Nushu women’s existence nor the script have ever been recorded in history. The venue was chosen to resonate with women's diaspora in Australia whose significance has also been kept unvoiced. The installation delineates the life of Nushu filling the space overlooking the Sydney harbour with herstory. ---ASN warehouse, Sydney, 2007

The Golden Pavilion-unprecedented future- ---This film installation reveals a reincarnating notion of ultimate beauty conceived in an image of burning temple. Investigation began on an actual event which took place more than 50 years ago when a young monk set fire to the temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto; once Japan's national treasure. The work examines Yukio Mishima's novel based on the incident through the film adaptation by Yoichi Takabayashi. The artist's reconstructed vision of climactic burning pavilion scene projected onto a fragmented screen unlocks the ambivalent code of destruction and creation.---SATTELLITE, Japan pavilion, Shanghai, 2006

H project - Two Hemispheres, Two Realities ----"The great pleasure and feeling in my right brain is more than my left brain can find the words to tell you." -Roger Sperry-
This site-specific art project was set in two identical art deco phone rooms inside the former Yokohama Commercial and Industrial Promotion Building (1929). The project was inaugurated by re-contexturalizing two phone rooms at two ends of the entrance hall as a metaphor of right & left hemispheres of the human brain. Based on the Sperry's theory of functional specialization of two cerebral hemispheres, this work challenges to unveil the parody of our inner information and mental screening mechanism highlighting communication / miscommunication between right & left brains.---Yokohama, 2005-2006

Semiotic Space-a case for an endangered language----An installation with 30,000 swarovski crystals to elicit unspoken world of Nushu.Nushu is a writing system created and used exclusively by women in a remote region of China. Now obsolete without its origin and background history being elucidated. The last inheritress of Nushu passed away during this project. The work encodes Nushu's ancestral voices encapsulated in its script as a unique manifestation of the spirit.---EastLink / M50, Shanghai, 2004

Psychotopography---A site-specific project commissioned by Cafe Caravan at an old traditional Japanese house in Tokyo which was on the verge of being demolished. By analyzing architectural clues, the work explores hidden psychology implicit to the house. Ｓeries of installations superimposes a mental map to the entire house together with juxtaposed text by Gaston Bachelard which entices viewers to contemplate on our most intimate universe (=home) beyond our daily awareness. Done in collaboration with Ikuya Sakurai (Butoh dance) and YOTETS!+hidekeys (Sound art).

about artist---She enjoys deviation and new breakthrough in areas of orthodoxy.Art brings her pleasure and thrill to shake our shared system of meanings.A provocation for the paradigm shift in our mental universe.She likes teaming up with those having diverse background/expertise in different fields who have a way with both logic and illogic to add interesting elements to cross-disciplinary projects. In-depth research is part of her work as her project is often site & context specific. Currently she is working on series of evolving projects called "Missing Links"and the forthcoming work reveals the most unexpected link between Nushu (recently extinct female only script in China) and esoteric traditions in Gion (Geisha/Geiko district in Kyoto).