concrete

Current
The Voice of Inconstant Savage
[Commissioned Work] This multifaceted, polyphonic and immersive sound installation by Yasuhiro Morinaga establishes a historical encounter between Portuguese culture and Japan, memories and myths that remain and coexist with other cultures of the Amazon. Commissioned for the Engawa – Japanese Contemporary Art Season programme , The Voice of Inconstant (2023) is an immersive installation that superimposes a prayer inspired by the story of a 16th-century Portuguese missionary, a chant from a Kakure-Kirishitan (hidden Christians) prayer – a religion rooted in Nagasaki Prefecture –, a chant from the Karawara spirits of the Awá indigenous people – who live in the Amazon rainforest – and a chorus of Western Gregorian chant. Morinaga questions the position of the aesthetics of inconstancy in relation to the discourse of the “savage” that modern society confronts.

Field recordings
Sombat Simla: Master Of Bamboo Mouth Organ
Simla is known in Thailand as one of the greatest living players of the khene, the ancient bamboo mouth organ particularly associated with Laos but found throughout East and Southeast Asia. His virtuosic and endlessly inventive renditions of traditional and popular songs have earned him the title ‘the god of khene’, and he is known for his innovative techniques and ability to mimic other instruments and non-musical sound, including, as a writer for the Bangkok Post describes, ‘the sound of a train journey, complete with traffic crossings and the call of barbecue chicken vendors’.

Cinema
Shadow and Act
Shadow and Act navigates through the remains of Chaya Jitrakorn, built in 1940, once the most prominent photo studio in Thailand and the only preferred studio of director Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram. The iflm explores the studio's seventy two year archives and its owner's personal photographs, while representing the defunct studio like the corpse of a deceased giant. The film experiments with the relationships between memory and space, and the past and future.(https://www.acc.go.kr/en/board/schedule/event/2610)

Cinema
籠城
旧制第一高等学校（通称、一高）は、1935年に本郷から駒場へと移転するが、そこでの生活は、本郷時代以来の「籠城主義」と呼ばれる自治寮での共同生活に支えられた、独特かつ閉鎖的なものだった。だが、1941年、1942年と戦時色が深まるにつれ、一高のアイデンティティともいえる「籠城主義」は、そのまま維持することはできなくなってくる。本作は、あたかも一高生らに同一化するかのように、アイデンティティの拠りどころを求めて研究に専念する大学院生の主人公「わたし」の意識を通じて、駒場時代の一高を描き出す。