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影を食う光Kota TAKEUCHI "Sight Consuming Shadow"For the exhibition“Sight Consuming Shadow”is the exhibition
which featured the relation between memory andthe media.
We engrave shades and read it by lights forrecording history.
Old people carved messages on stones. I shootshades as video and record as data.
The old media is buried by the overflowing newmedia.
If I was a stone sculpture craftsman in 200 years
ago and knew the information-overflowing of
new media―photo, video, television, internet,struggle to change the way to make and leavestone monuments.
Or, if a future person encountered with me
through time from 200 years later, and told me all
medias would give way to new ones...
The video pieces and installations are the resultthat I struggled by supposition that a future
person told so.
Before the next great oblivion coming by overflow
and burying.

10 channel videos※ reference『Economic history in modern age of Iwaki』by Saito Ichiro, 1976

《Bookmark》2013

《Demolition of Mihako Theater》2013
2 channel video projections on 1 screen for 33min 23sec, camera, 3 benches, in a black floor and wall

《Drawing for Demolition of Mihako Theater》2013 ink on paper

《Carrying Coal Stone Through Old Railroad》2013
video on camera for 25min30sec, coal stone, helmet

《sight-seeing》2013 ink on paper

《Before Video Become Stone》2013 paint on a monitor

From 《Take Stone Monuments Twice》2013

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1620 × 1303mm, oil on canvas

1620 × 1303mm, oil on canvas

1620 × 1303mm, oil on canvas⑫⑨⑧《Snapshot in Iwaki》2013 single channel video for 40min14sec⑦《sight-seeing》2013 ink on paperon camera for 25min30sec, coal stone⑥《Carrying Coal Stone Through Old Railroad》2013 helmet、video⑤《Egosurfing2-1》2013④《Egosurfing2》2013⑬

1620 × 1303mm, oil on canvas③《Egosurfing1-1-1》2013②《Egosurfing1-1》2013①《Egosurfing1》2013

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2 channel video projections on⑬《Take Stone Monuments Twice》2013 photo⑫《Before Video Become Stone》2013 paint on a monitor

1 screen for 33min 23sec, camera, 3 benches, in a black floor and wall⑪《Demolition of Mihako Theater》2013⑩《Drawing for Demolition of Mihako Theater》2013 ink on paper

1976※ reference『Economic history in modern age of Iwaki』by Saito Ichiro,⑨《Bookmark》2013

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notes of works《Bookmark》2013
10 channel videos
A sentence, "I am not a stone monument"
displayed the videos of the letter on somestone monuments.
Each video shakes because of the camera shakeat the time of shooting.

Video becomes Stone

media environment.

There is a news report indicating that progress

It is the Future when quantity of the videosof the media had overtaken the distance of theand the information would have included

disasters.

enormously more and more from these days toIn 2011, a stone monument was found near thebe interest in me.

Yoshihama River of Ofunato-shi, Iwate. This was

The stand-alone videos already have relatively

a monument about Showa Sanriku Tsunami

become like the stones of the roadside now.

(1933) filled up with road maintenance in theIt is always a past record, and the video may be

1970s. And it appeared by the great tsunami

inferior to a sculpture about the sense of reality

after the East Japan Earthquake of 2011 again.

in front.

Is this caused by inferior of the stone media? IHowever, I believe in video installation.

don't think so.

I want to share the strange "I" which was cut

The stone had became relatively older than theand brought down by a sentence "I am not

the new media flooding on various networks.

a stone monument" with future people who

Of course we should not part with the newthink that HD video is so old.

「石」磐越東線遭難碑／ Monument of Banetsu-East-Line
accident（1944）

Stone monuments which I borrowed letters（built year）「我」

Hisanohama. The history of the high tide

豊間除潮堤防碑／ Monument of Toyoma seawall

damage and the embankment are written on it.

（1914）
Memorialized seawall construction of Toyoma「は」Beach.

龍神丸遭難供養塔／ Pagoda of Ryujin-maru

It repeated the building of the dike and its

accident（1949）

break down caused by the high tide from theIt holds a service for 12 victims of the accident

19th century.

that a hooker caught the bombardment andsank in war.

「た」

This ship engaged in a secret duty of the patrol

平空襲殉難碑／ Monument of the victim by theof the foreign ship. However, because of theair raid on Taira.（1955）

principle of the military secret, it was handled

Memorialized about three teachers killed in an

as a mere sea disaster accident. It took 30 years

air raid to the elementary school in WW Ⅱ .

after the war that they were recognized as

The bomb of this time was proved to have been

death on duty.

a trial A-bomb later.
「石」「シ」

磐越東線遭難碑／ Monument of Banetsu-East-

久之浜護岸堤防記念碑／ Monument ofLine accident（1944）

Hisanohama seawall（1936）

Memorialized the victims of the derailment

Memorialized seawall construction ofaccident in 1935.

" 石 " is a letter of the monument sentence「ハ」

about six jizos(stone statue of the guardian

四倉魚市場記念碑／ Yotsukura fish market

deity of children) build by side.

monument（1913）
Memorialized establishment and the prosperity「碑」

of the fish market. Restoration from the heavy

米軍用機遭難追悼碑／ Monument of thedamage by The tsunami after earthquake

accident of the American warplane（1949）

disaster and the nuclear plant accident of 2011

It mourns over 15 crews on the U.S. militaryis advanced.

plane which was going to drop relief supplies
on a captive and crashed in the Mt.Yu-no-Take「無」in September 1945 just after the end of the有縁無縁供養塔／ Pagoda for related andwar. It was build on halfway up the mountain.

neglected spirits（1909）
It enshrines the miners who died in accidents「で」included the people with no relatives together.

鉱害復旧事業記念碑／ Monument of therestoration project from environmental「い」

disruption caused by mining（1974）

井上用水堰通水碑／ Monument of Inoue

Memorialized the restoration project ofirrigation canal dam （1950）

farmland which damaged by subsidence

It is written down the history of the flooding ofgenerated by the closing of the coal pit.

the river and the construction and removing,rebuilding of irrigation water dam andmemorialized of its completion in 1950.

《Demolition of Mihako Theater》
2013
2 channel video projections on 1
screen for 33min 23sec, camera, 3benches, in a black floor and wall
A video installation. The appreciator watches

Sight(Figure) Consuming Shadow(Shade)the video that a theater is dismantled. And

Film / video projector projects bunch of thethere are the figures of appreciators themselves

light on a dark aspect. We can recognize imageon the video as audiences of the theater. Theby watching the reflected light. Exposed images

theater named Mihako had been the centerare on condition that the projected plane isof playgoing, storytelling and theatergoing ofdark. In this installation, two rays from two

Yumoto where was a mine city and a hot springmachines are projected for one same plane. The

resort from the end of 19 century to 1972's its

bright parts of one video are exposed in theclosing. The old building was demolished indark parts of the other video. We can recognize

2013.

only there as image.
The appreciator of the current installation
space is exposed in the part of the shade of thepast theater.

On the other hand, the outdoor sight of thepast theater appears in the parts of dark
and black background shadow of current
installation space.
Past Sight and current figures are exposed byconsuming each others' shadow and shade.

《Carrying Coal Stone Through OldRailroad》2013
video on camera for 25min30sec,
coal stone, helmet
I had learned the route of a light railway for thecoal transportation, then moved the same way.

Demolition of archive

I went while watching LCD monitor of a videoThe items such as movie posters or bromide

camera put on a helmet on my head.

photographs, signboards used in Mihako
Theater were distributed for the city and aSightseeing

university and people.

I thought the range that an old miner lighted

However, the building as biggest archiveup with his headlight would become almost

had been demolished. This was demolition

my shooting range by camera. (It is not aof archive. A scary point of the demolition of

reproduction of the fields of vision to put onarchive is the possibility of disappearing thethe helmet camera at the ground because thefact that there were some archives.

light is used in the pitch-black pit.)

The movie is created to fight against theThe old light railroad does not have any tracks.

demolition of the archive happened in the

There had became asphalt roads, forest roads,occasion of war or great disaster. This video

thickets and private houses now. And a tunnel

installation is the replaying demolition of theunsupported excavation had been left. I

building, and is also an homage of watching

picked up and pocket some coal stone at thetheater movie.

place where the coal layer was exposed to thesurface.
Sight seeing. Camera as alter Light. Rays
emitted from a source of light. Rays to get into
the video sensor. I was interested in the tworadial rays of past and present.

Kota TAKEUCHI "Sight Consuming Shadow"
Nov.22 2013 – Dec.23 2013
Mori Art Museum (Iwaki, Fukushima)
Lead Sponsor:

Mihako Theater Rebirth Project

Supporting Sponsors:

Fukutake Foundation

Acknowledgements
Mori Art Museum in Iwaki
Hiyama Nobukatsu
Maeyama Seiko
Sato Masahiro
Suganamik Shin
Midorikawa Yutaro