Michiko Tsuda

Michiko Tsuda
selected works in 2007-2010
Occupants and King in the Configuration Forest
配置の森の住人と王様
video and installation / 2010
Occupants and King in the Configuration Forest
The body of work titled "Occupants and King in the Configuration Forest" gives multiple
perspectives on what appears to be a complex spatial relationship. The work consists of an installation
and a screening of four video pieces, each titled "Arrangement of a Room," "Defective Formal Logic
#01," "Defective Formal Logic #02," and "A Note about the Daily Work in the Forest," which are shot
in the same installation space. This installation, or the ‘film set,’ is comprised of minimal, wooden
structures - two frames, three frames with walls, and two frames with mirrors – all in the same size and
are movable with casters. At the first glance, the audiences may have difficulty comprehending the exact spatial
configuration. For example, it is difficult to distinguish the mirrors from the frames. Only by moving
and interacting, the audiences are able to understand what they thought as a mirror turns to be just the
frame, and vice versa. The television monitors connected to the video camera are also fragmenting
their perception. As the title suggests, the work plays on the interchangeability of viewpoints. Through the
audiences’ movement and the performers in the video, such differences in experience are analogous to
being both ‘occupants’ and ‘king.’ This work is an attempt to highlight an inevitable power struggle that
underlies within the principle of moving image: a complex and simple relationship between the subjects,
the camera, the photographer, and the viewer.
Photo : Tadasu Yamamoto
structure of exhibition space
configurations (Photo : Tadasu Yamamoto)
Occupants and King in the Configuration Forest
“Arrangement of a Room”
《 模様替え》
2010 / video / 8’05
Performance and collaborative choreography : Atsunori Kawamura, Emiko Suzuki
Supported by ACAC Aomori
Occupants and King in the Configuration Forest
“Defective Formal Logic #01”
《 形式論理の不具合 #01 》
2010 / video / 6’34
Performance : Takao Osanai, Sumi Osanai
Choreograph : Michiko Tsuda
Supported by ACAC Aomori
Occupants and King in the Configuration Forest
“Defective Formal Logic #02”
《 形式論理の不具合 #02 》
2010 / video / 2’35
Performance and Collaborative Chorepgraph : Mari Osanai, Michiko Tsuda
Supported by ACAC Aomori
Occupants and King in the Configuration Forest
“A Note about the Daily Work in the Forest”
《 森の営みに関する覚え書き 》
2010 / video / 11’00
Performance and Collaborative Chorepgraph : Sioned Huws, Michiko Tsuda
Supported by ACAC Aomori
Yeu & Mo
あたたとわなし
video / 2007-2009
“Yeu & Mo” is a video work shot in a specific situation.
The set for this video work is installed symmetric. Some vertical mirrors are placed in the center of the
room, and a video camera faces to the reflection of those mirrors.
Then, the reflected objects on the mirrors and the objects behind the mirrors are optically merged in
the camera view.
This description takes an example of the situation when two people stand at before and behind of the
mirrors.
In the case of the person at backside of the mirrors, some parts of the body get behind. On the other
hand, body parts of the person in front of the mirrors are reflected on the mirrors. When it happens at
the same time, bodies of those people are combined together in the camera view. Those bodies are
directed to form one figure carefully in the image.
Observer’s eye is another point to discuss. When the camera looks at the mirror, a video camera is there
in the mirror even the viewers are not reflected. Seeing the images from the camera, which is facing to
the mirror, would refer to the mechanism of seeing.
Technical Requirements
exhibition view
1 DVD player
1 video monitor
1 stereo speaker
In ‘strip’, ‘glass’, ‘here there’ and ‘family’, the video camera swings like a pendulum. Then, the matters at
backside of the mirrors and the matters in front of the mirrors flutter.
These four pieces combine different connotations in the image of objects such as a person in nudity
and clothes on, an empty glass and a glass full of juice, two words which means this and that and
different members of a family.
strip 1’16
glass 0’38
family 1’09
here there 0’57
video camera
video camera
mirrors
mirrors
chairs
grand mother
cat
mother
daughter
perspective view of the symmetrical room
view area of the video camera at backside of the mirrors
view area of the video camera infront of the mirrors and reflected on the mirrors
view area of the video camera infront of the mirrors but not reflected on the mirrors
birds eye view of the shooting set
camera view
This mechanism of the symmetric room with mirrors could be shown as an installation, however some
participants as the viewers may not find the interesting point in the case of installation. Therefore, it is
completed as a video work to direct the viewpoint in this situation. And the collaboration with the
professional performers is necessary for this work. The performer in the video takes role as an agent to
explore the hidden mechanism in the image by the suitable choreography.
Technical Requirements
hardware :
1 computer
1 software RAID
1 projector (XGA)
1 stereo speaker
software :
QuickTime Player
image data :
60 frame/sec,
960pixel × 720pixel
projection screen
projector
speaker
PC
software RAID
Yeu & Mo
“Arrangement of Boxes”
2007 / video / 8’40
Performance : Kazue Ikeda and Michiko Abe
Collaborative choreography : Kazue Ikeda
There are 16 mirrors of 30 centimeters square. It could be handled like blocks.
The performer piled them up at the center of the symmetrical room and
dismantled them according to the choreography.
Yeu & Mo
“Arrangement of Lines”
2008 / video / 4’46
Performance and Collaborative choreography : Miwako Takano
（dancer, organizer of a dance group『time and locus』）,
Atsunori Kawamura and Hinako Matsumoto
There are four thin mirrors at the center of the symmetrical room. The mirrors
are fixed and don’t reflect the video camera.
Yeu & Mo
2008 / video / 4’11
Performance and Collaborative choreography : Miwako Takano
（dancer, organizer of a dance group『time and locus』）
and Tamami Yamada
Two mirrors are set at the center of the symmetrical room. The relationship
between two parts of the bodies changes with happenings.
Yeu & Mo
“Arrangement of Lines #02”
2009 / video / 4’56
Performance and Collaborative choreography : Aya Irizuki
Three thin mirrors are vertically standing at the center of the
symmetrical room. These mirrors would be moved horizontally by the
performer and the video camera also moves.
exhibition view
Yeu & Mo
“Arrangement of Lines #02”
2009 / video / 8’55
Performance and Collaborative choreography : Hanano Teshirogia and Shotaro Teshirogi
exhibition view
works data
“strip” 1'16
”glass” 0'38
“family” 1'09
”here there” 0'57
“Arrangement of Boxes” performance : Kazue Ikeda and Michiko Abe 8'40
“Arrangement of Lines #01” performance : Miwako Takano, Atsunori Kawamura and Hinako Matsumoto 4'46
performance : Miwako Takano and Tamami Yamada 4'11
“Arrangement of Lines #02” performance : Aya Irizuki 4'56
performance : Hanano Teshirogi and Shotaro Teshirogi 8'55
Exhibited and Screened at these exhibitions and festivals below
2011.04 “Changwon Asian Art Festival -Self-Camera” Changwon, South Korea
2011.02 “Girl Friends Forever!” Tokyo Wondar Site Hongo, Japan
2009.12 "Yogyakarta International Video Festival #05" Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2009.05-06 "Re:Membering" (curator:Fumihiko Sumitomo) Gallery Loop and Doosan Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009.01 "radiator" (curator:Emma Ota) Hand and Heart Gallery, Nottingham, U.K.
2009.01 "Media Practice 08-09" BankArt, Kanagawa, Japan
2008.09 "dislocate08" (curator:Emma Ota) ZAIM, Kanagawa, Japan
2008.06 "Leonardo Art/Science Student Exhibition" Berkeley Art Museum, California, U.S.A.
2008.01 "OS1" Tokyo National University of the Arts, Kanagawa, Japan