One Sunny Day After Another
Statement:
Focusing specifically on the U.S./Mexico border, I interrogate the perception of borders as permanent structures and sites of division. Although the tall fortified steel walls are supposed intended to divide the United States and Mexico, the border remains as much a place of exchange as it does a site of separation. Through naïve actions, I attempt to disrupt and subvert these structures which strive to isolate and de-humanize. Using performance and audience participation, involving both hand-made and manufactured consumer goods, I seek to expose a reality constructed of fabricated materials and ideologies and as a means to reconcile the pervading sense of disconnection and recover moments of community. These gestures are essentially self-oriented and cannot practically effect large-scale change, but are nevertheless, born of the sincere longing to make the world a better place.
Focusing specifically on the U.S./Mexico border, I interrogate the perception of borders as permanent structures and sites of division. Although the tall fortified steel walls are supposed intended to divide the United States and Mexico, the border remains as much a place of exchange as it does a site of separation. Through naïve actions, I attempt to disrupt and subvert these structures which strive to isolate and de-humanize. Using performance and audience participation, involving both hand-made and manufactured consumer goods, I seek to expose a reality constructed of fabricated materials and ideologies and as a means to reconcile the pervading sense of disconnection and recover moments of community. These gestures are essentially self-oriented and cannot practically effect large-scale change, but are nevertheless, born of the sincere longing to make the world a better place.
Hello (Video)
Hello (Video)
2015-16
12 min
2015-16
12 min
This Wall and I, Season 1, Episode 1-6
2016
Performance, YouTube live streaming, participation, t-shirt
Description:
Performance, YouTube live streaming, participation, t-shirt
Description:
- Every Saturday from 1 to 9pm, from April 23rd to May 30th, this durational participatory performance took place in WonderRoot gallery space. Except on May 7th and 14th, the performance took place at the Hambidge Center. On those six Saturdays, the artist stood against the wall for 8 hours and the whole performance was live-streamed on YouTube. All the episodes of this performance can be viewed here: http://www.ionyamazaki.com/one-sunny-day-after-another.html
