Akiko Ikeda
Japan
"sightseeing"
23:rd March - 8:th April 2007
Simply
put, “they’ve still stuck on your wall” is a video work that is
designed to document my travels to a variety of locations around the
world. Specifically, this will involve attaching a small
airplane-shaped object to the window of the vehicles in which I ride,
and filming it with a video camera. By placing the small object in the
window, it will appear as if the airplane is actually flying, due to
the movement of the scenery in the background. The scenery will,
naturally, differ depending on the site.
In repeating the filming
process in various locations and assembling the results in a video
work, I hope to address questions such as, “What is movement?” and “How
does one culture differ from another?” As my interest in the project
deepens, I believe the significance of the work will increase.
Until
this point, I have been travelling and making similar video works in
Japan. This began in my hometown of Gifu, and has continued with
segments filmed in places such as Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto and
Okinawa. Whenever I travel, I film. I have come to consider this
activity as an essential part of my lifework as an artist.
Akiko Ikeda