TextEdit
2019

TextEdit ( First & Second ) based on the essays written by the 8 students who participated in the Global Art Joint Program, 2018. (full introduction on the program:

http://gap.geidai.ac.jp/GAP_JP/news_blog_2018/20181004043846.html) 

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Besides the official photos and video clips of the joint program, the essays are also evidences of students' existence in Tokyo and Paris. Visual evidences showing movements directly, but words can bring invisible thoughts to the surface as direct reflections of personal feelings. Fragments of thoughts act as supplements to the photos and videos.

On the other hand, the struggle of language happened during the whole program. Students with different backgrounds communicate in English, while none of their mother-tone is English. Mastering a Language is difficult; there is always something new to learn about it. By editing and rearranging fragments of the essays, artist intends to simplify language itself, imitating the process of learning a language, and implying the struggle of communication.

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Here, the mastery process has been focused on insteadof the literalness.