Single-screen version, 2013
Video installation version, 2016, 10-channel video—black and white, sound, HD, 6 minutes, Lee Filter (5 shades—Blood Red, Terry Red, Dark Amber, Medium Blue, and Medium Blue-Green), light sources that available at the gallery or museum space, 10 types of monitors and projectors, 10 media players with synchronizers.
Description
This work was started when I was an artist in residence at the Tokyo Wonder Site – Aoyama, Japan in 2012. I undertook a full month of research on the relationship between the usage of electricity and how we produce it. Upon arriving in Tokyo, I researched the top 10 places in Tokyo that consume the most electricity. Luckily, a staff member from TWS found it in the Tokyo Shinbun Newspaper. (This data uses the emission of CO₂ as an indicator of electricity consumption. Emissions from the electricity and heat generation have been allocated to final consuming sectors in proportion to the electricity and heat consumed.
By chance, I was invited to the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art for 2 days. I visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and found evidence of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima during WW2. Heat rays of approximately 5,000°-Celsius produced by the atomic blast burned away dark- or black-colored parts of objects because they absorbed more heat. This effect shocked me and inspired me to research more information on nuclear history.
In Ten Places in Tokyo, I visualized a relation of the heat ray effects that happened in Hiroshima in 1945 and Tokyo’s top ten electricity-consuming places in 2010. Why do I use images of Tokyo and not Fukushima? TEPCO’s nuclear power plant in Fukushima produced electricity mainly for Tokyo. Ten Places in Tokyo is derived from the historical use of nuclear as a weapon in 1945 and the latest disaster as an electricity generation in Fukushima. This pair of events in Japan can be a case study to reflect on the relationship of energy and politics.
Review
- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Noritake, M., Eguchi, N., Takemi, Y., & Sato, E. (2018) Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Vision—Mapping Invisible 2018. Tokyo, Japan: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. [PDF]
- Bonnie Sananvatananont and Monruedee Jansuttipan, 12 Emerging Thai Artists You Should Know (Cover Story), BK Magazine, No. 658 Friday, September 23, 2016, Bangkok, pp. 3, 6, 8, 10 [download PDF file]
- ภานุ บุญพิพัฒนาพงศ์, 10 Places in Tokyo ความมืดอันเจิดจ้าแห่งการทำลายล้างเหรียญสองด้านของพลังงานปรมาณู, Matichon Weekend มติชน สุดสัปดาห์ คอลัมน์ อะไร(แม่ง)ก็เป็นศิลปะ, No. 1883, 16-22 September 2016, Bangkok, p 80-81 [download PDF file]
- ธเนศ อ่าวสินธุ์ศิริ Thanet Awsinsiri, สุทธิรัตน์ ศุภปริญญา ‘Ten Places in Tokyo’ คุณภาพของศิลปินรุ่นใหม่- พลังงาน การผลิต และการบริโภค, personal Facebook status, September 5, 2016 (PDF in Thai and Eng)
- Kaona Pongpipat, It’s a whitewash!, Bangkok Post (Life-Feature, Art Matters), Wednesday, August 31, 2016, Bangkok, p.8 [download PDF 1 or PDF 2]
- Art4D, Ten Places in Tokyo, Art4d, 19 August 2016 [PDF]
