1) luminous performances 1998-2003 : Jellyfish or Between 0 to 1
One day, a monolith fell down from the sky on me. I began to make a shining wig and started luminous performances. I didn’t know why at that time.
The stage and the hall were completely dark. I was on stage, but invisible -- only the lights I manipulated were visible.
I used my body, but not like a dancer. I tried to create another body -- or an unidentified body -- over the human body.
All things I made, even if I imagined them to be a nebula, or a plant, a bird, an insect, a virus…etc, the spectators said to me that they saw a jellyfish.
Known as « KOJIKI : Records of Ancient Matters »(Japan 712), <THE BEGINNING OF HEAVEN AND EARTH> is described as
When the earth, young and like floating oil, drifted about medusa-like.
And then, 2 deities consolidated this drifting medusa-like thing. It was the moment the land saw the light.
I think now in retrospect, I tried to make my body disappear. Nevertheless, I was not at 0 but at the medusa-like state.
Medusa/Jellyfish, this vague creature, can assume a certain form or not.
As an egg, as spawn, as a foetus, in these states, we all pass this transitory condition which was called medusa-like.
Medusa/jellyfish can be a metaphor for “ life before birth.”
Foetus is not yet born, but it is alive.
What is life before birth?
Life, which moment does it start?
Who give rise from 0 to1?
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