Tadashi Kawamata, Kōichi Kurita, Motoi Yamamoto : des matériaux naturels comme indices de la précarité des liens sociaux
This paper aims to analyse the way three Japanese contemporary artists, namely Tadashi Kawamata, Kōichi Kurita and Motoi Yamamoto, employ fragile organic materials (wood, soil, salt), in formal propositions that question social links between humans and non-humans. These works are motivated by a prec...
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| description | This paper aims to analyse the way three Japanese contemporary artists, namely Tadashi Kawamata, Kōichi Kurita and Motoi Yamamoto, employ fragile organic materials (wood, soil, salt), in formal propositions that question social links between humans and non-humans. These works are motivated by a precarious and ephemeral perception of existence: relatives’ passings, soil’s destruction, nuclear and climatic catastrophes, systematic urban reorganization. The material, always collected somewhere specific, is then less a symbolic and visual operation of nature’s aestheticization than an actualization of a certain social structure where humans and non-humans live together. The analysis of agency’s distribution allows to better situate those works into Philippe Descola’s « ontologies », such as « animism » and « analogism », and to differenciate them from similar Western practices activating a « natularist » scheme: the artist always undergoes the agency of a place, a material, a non-human, as him and viewers are stuck into a relationship network where the frontiers between nature and culture aren’t operating. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-23ee44dbcb1f4d7eb2612e69d685b5f42024-12-09T15:51:08ZfraCentre d´Histoire et Théorie des ArtsImages Re-Vues1778-38012021-10-011810.4000/imagesrevues.11238Tadashi Kawamata, Kōichi Kurita, Motoi Yamamoto : des matériaux naturels comme indices de la précarité des liens sociauxNicolas-Xavier FerrandThis paper aims to analyse the way three Japanese contemporary artists, namely Tadashi Kawamata, Kōichi Kurita and Motoi Yamamoto, employ fragile organic materials (wood, soil, salt), in formal propositions that question social links between humans and non-humans. These works are motivated by a precarious and ephemeral perception of existence: relatives’ passings, soil’s destruction, nuclear and climatic catastrophes, systematic urban reorganization. The material, always collected somewhere specific, is then less a symbolic and visual operation of nature’s aestheticization than an actualization of a certain social structure where humans and non-humans live together. The analysis of agency’s distribution allows to better situate those works into Philippe Descola’s « ontologies », such as « animism » and « analogism », and to differenciate them from similar Western practices activating a « natularist » scheme: the artist always undergoes the agency of a place, a material, a non-human, as him and viewers are stuck into a relationship network where the frontiers between nature and culture aren’t operating.https://journals.openedition.org/imagesrevues/11238naturejapanese artecologyDescolaGellnon-human |
| spellingShingle | Nicolas-Xavier Ferrand Tadashi Kawamata, Kōichi Kurita, Motoi Yamamoto : des matériaux naturels comme indices de la précarité des liens sociaux Images Re-Vues nature japanese art ecology Descola Gell non-human |
| title | Tadashi Kawamata, Kōichi Kurita, Motoi Yamamoto : des matériaux naturels comme indices de la précarité des liens sociaux |
| title_full | Tadashi Kawamata, Kōichi Kurita, Motoi Yamamoto : des matériaux naturels comme indices de la précarité des liens sociaux |
| title_fullStr | Tadashi Kawamata, Kōichi Kurita, Motoi Yamamoto : des matériaux naturels comme indices de la précarité des liens sociaux |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tadashi Kawamata, Kōichi Kurita, Motoi Yamamoto : des matériaux naturels comme indices de la précarité des liens sociaux |
| title_short | Tadashi Kawamata, Kōichi Kurita, Motoi Yamamoto : des matériaux naturels comme indices de la précarité des liens sociaux |
| title_sort | tadashi kawamata koichi kurita motoi yamamoto des materiaux naturels comme indices de la precarite des liens sociaux |
| topic | nature japanese art ecology Descola Gell non-human |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/imagesrevues/11238 |
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