Sub Gallery: 5th floor was under the stairs from the main gallery.

5th floor: Unlike the main floor, this floor had different design products such as CD packages, posters and art works. This floor was inspired by the deluxe edition package of Gasbook 10. The works were arranged on a cloth and tied with yarn. This was very good idea not to be stolen or damaged. It was as if a scene from Gulliver.

1st floor: The big projector on this floor screened the works for ‘Movement’ on the big monitor outside for the people walking.

This exhibition was aiming to represent the possibility of new life style, vision, and design due to the high technology which had previously existed in science fiction. It is a bit boring that there are only a TV, sofa, computer and bookshelf in a house although we are in the age with highly skilled robots and impressive communication methods. For example, they say that the Play Station 2 or other computers cannot be exported freely because they contain too high technology. Therefore, we thought there is no way to waste the great technology and wanted to get it outside monitors. We tried to create a new space with a mixture of product design and technology such as computers and sensors. There, graphics with new side would adapt to daily life. Stimulus design and graphics for physical sense.

It is unreasonable that our capacity is not enough for the development of graphics. For instance, the fact that we still watch DVD on TV monitors shows the delay. The most important thing is how the human body could touch graphics and design.

Fortunately, I met Mr. Hitoshi Saeki from Trico International, distributor of contemporary designer (he also did the exhibition ‘Happening’ as a member of Airconditioned), then I consider this exhibition with those. He worked on the concept and the space design and also named this exhibition. I also meet Mr. Ryota Kuwakubo who is a device artist developing different digital installations. We reached the concept after all.

MOVEMENT

Movement of your mind and body, environment surrounds you / changes in things, a device that connects them, the tendency of today, and an experiment to pursue the relationship between them.”

The results of the movement were put on different media; we visit creators in Tokyo or Europe to put their art works on the white booklet sample and the record of traveling is edited on the book for Gasbook 10 and Studio Voice Magazine. Then the project ended up with this exhibition.

The exhibition had free admission so various people could come. They seemed to enjoy themselves finding designs in each room. Once somebody found something, people surrounding him moved as well. The pleasure spread and it was the first time I saw an exhibition with a running audience. I was really happy to see the reactions of the visitors because they did as I hoped. On the other hand, it might have been the first experience to see such a boring exhibition for people who were not interested in it and did not move.

The most regrettable thing is that the whole floor could not be completed and the maintenance for installations was not going properly.

The exhibition with such concept would be continued. It is difficult to express it in text, so we hope you could visit us. So far, we are trying to sort the problems out and planning another exhibition in May, next year.

MOVEMENT
Date: April 29th – May 13th, 2001
Place: Sendai Mediateque
Address: 2-1 Kasuga-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai
http://www.gas-city.com