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Kouichi Tabata ”72 colour (Birds)”, 2014 HD video, a set of 72 A4 original drawings and video data (dimensions variable) ed.1 Photo:KIGURE Shinya

Chants d’ oiseaux

Yutaka Kikutake Gallery

Finished

Artists

Futoshi Miyagi, Kouichi Tabata, Tom Howse, Yukari Motoyama

Birds have appeared in various forms in mythology and art since prehistoric, ancient times. Based on Chants d’ oiseaux. forêt de textes l theories focusing on birds in the context of modern and contemporary literature and music in both Japan and the West, primarily France, this exhibition concentrates on the otherness of birds as hidden presences and sudden visitors in our urban lives, and their uniqueness as motifs possessing biological mysteries and histories. This exhibition will consider representations of birds in modern and contemporary Japanese literature and music, two fields of expression which developed without the influence of a Christian-style god. Additional influence comes from images of birds used by thinkers such as Maruice Blanchot, birdsong as tone rows obtained through an ornithological creative process in Olivier Messiaen’s Catalogue of birds, and the otherness of birds which we are made aware of through the “Murmur of the World,” i.e. noise, as defined in Alphonso Lingis’s The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common. In this way we seek to create an exhibition that draws on a variety of perspectives across Eastern and Western ways of thinking and remains relevant to our present moment.

Schedule

Nov 5 (Tue) 2024-Jan 18 (Sat) 2025