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7/9/2006

Stefano Cagol

Istituto Italiano di Cultura ICC, Tokyo

Bird flu - Harajuku Influences

Stefano Cagol's artwork will be created and exhibited in Japan again. Cagol's residency in Tokyo in 2004 has developed into "Tokyospace" progress through a new series of video and photographic artwork, with the online tokyospace.com diary and the presentation by Superdeluxe together with a performance of the Australian group King Pins. A critical text by Letizia Ragaglia will open "Tokyospace" and an essay by Pier Luigi Tazzi will conclude it.

Cagol's new project in Tokyo will take place next fall 2006 in collaboration with the ITALIAN INSTITUTE OF CULTURE IN TOKYO. The project will keep the nature of a work in progress. It will start in September 2006 and develop through daily updated video installations and performances, also thanks to the interaction with other city structures like the Mori Museum of Art. To complete it, there will be a book published by CHARTA editions. With "Harajuku Influences" Cagol wants to continue his enquiry based on the muted barycenters of our society, by offering a mutable but never univocal point of view. And Tokyo is the metropolis par excellence suspended at the extreme between East and West, past and present. To put into evidence the actual divarication between what is real and what constructed by the media, Cagol will follow also in Tokyo his speculation on influence, taken as the symbol of this reality that moves in the wind by following points of power - in the same way as the flags that have entered so many works by the artist, from the "Stars & Stripes" video to the performance "White Flags" at the past Biennale in Venice.

And the points of power are nowadays infinite, we are continuously influenced, easily influenced, as a mass, not singly: from politics to religion, by fashion, by sex, by our ass, by TV, as already highlighted in the first phase of the project "Bird Flu / Vogelgrippe" on the physical and mental influences that Cagol has taken on tour from Trento to the Berlin Biennial. If the sound of winged in that case was emitted by an ascetic white vehicle, in Tokyo also the Harajuku symbol girls, with their extreme competition for a new look, will be transformed into breeding poultry by using a megaphone that in Japan represents one of the traditional methods to attract buying customers.

The result of the work in progress, of the performances, and of the daily broadcast fruition, will be shown on October 5 at the Italian Institute of Culture in Tokyo, before being published on the CHARTA catalogue.

The project will later on be brought to Belgium, curated by Angelique Campens.

IMAGES CAPTION: Stefano Cagol, tokyospace.harajuku.flu, 2004, lambda print, variable dimensions

CONTRIBUTIONS: Pier Luigi Tazzi, Yukiko Shikata, David Elliott, Mami Kataoka, Angelique Campens, Stefano Cagol ...and others.

With Mori art museum

Informations: Leila Mai info@tokyospace.com

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