Last fall, I joined a deeply inspiring and lovely art class "Repatterning and Practice: Incantations for the Apocalypse" taught by Amina Ross and Hiba Ali at SFPC, and created this "Mountain Amulet for Sisters (not Cisters)"—an amulet that reimagines mountain spirits from a female's perspective.
This work began from my discomfort with the patriarchal aspects of Japanese faith and the myths that contribute to it. While creating this piece, I researched the most famous mountain goddess in Japan as well as Japanese female characters from pop culture, speculating on them as goddesses who truly empower "sisters."💜
In Japan, the mountain has long been seen as a goddess, source of both blessings and disasters, beautiful and terrifying at once.
But over time, a myth emerged claiming that the goddess hated women, and women were banned from the sacred peak. Because the mountain contains limestone caves, Japanese often regard it as embodying a woman's body. Some male practitioners even performed erotic "rituals", such as licking drops from limestone as ”mother's milk.”
On the other hand, looking back on my childhood, I realized that it was rather female characters from anime and manga, such as Sailor Moon, than the goddess who empowered me to stand and fight on my own. They weren't protected by men, willing to work with people of gender minorities as their sisters to heal the world's suffering.
So in this alternative mountain amulet, I tried mixing the sacred image of the mountain with this sister-friendly anime flavor.
The sound combines a bell tone with a field recording from a place struck by the tsunami, layering an imagined dimension over the cel-style fictional visuals and evoking the realities we each face and must constantly imagine.
I'll post it for my own amulet.
Special thank you @sfpc.study@aminaontheinternet@hibaali.info 💜
#SFPC #3d #digitalart #amulet #mythology #SailorMoon #postinternet #feministart
English follows* 今月京都で展示があります！KyotoGraphieの関連企画 KG+ PICK UPに選んでいただきました。めちゃ久しぶりの関西の展示です、よろしくお願いします～
VR体験は予約優先です
/galerie16
KG+ pick up 27.
「バーチャル供養講」｜「Virtual Mementos Association」
内田聖良｜Seira Uchidaa
📍ギャラリー16｜galerie16
🗓️Open: 4/16–4/27 12:00–18:00 Closed: 4/22
+++概要+++
《バーチャル供養講》は、炎上や分断が「厄災」を生む現在に「ありえるかもしれない架空の信仰」を体験するインスタレーション。VR空間に建てられたお堂に、様々な人の思い出の品が３Dアイテムに変換され奉納されている。内田は本作の制作にあたり青森の地蔵信仰で目に見えない死者と人々が供物によって関わるインタラクションをリサーチし、現代の見えざる他者―アルゴリズムによって分断された人々を想像させる手法に転換した。思い出の品の３Dオブジェクトへの変換は、大量の写真を3次元に合成する手法「フォトグラメトリ」によって行われる。これらのデータをダウンロード可能な状態にし、別のゲーム等の一部として活用＝（転生）させ未来の物語の生成プロセスに介入するなど、現代の写真のあり方や記憶の流通・価値についての模索が行われる。 本シリーズは、展示空間に合わせ物語とVR空間が変化しており、本展でも新版が語られる予定。
VRお参り体験：本展覧会では作品の一部である「バーチャル供養堂」お参り体験ができます。体験前にVRお参り作法をご説明いたします。
お参りご希望の方は、下のURLからご予約ください。
/galerie16
**outline** Virtual Mementos Association" is a series of installations that allows visitors to experience an "imaginary faith that might be possible" in today's world where flaming and divisions by algorithms create social issues. In creating this work, Uchida researched the interactions between people and the invisible deceased through offering objects in the Jizo faith in Aomori, Japan. And then she converted it to a method that imagines the invisible others of today - people divided by algorithms. The transformation of memorial items into 3D objects is done through photogrammetry, a technique that synthesizes large numbers of photographs into three-dimensional objects. The data is made available for downloading and used as a part of other games to intervene in the process of creating stories in the future(she calls the process as reincarnation of the objects), thus exploring the nature of contemporary photography and the distribution and value of memory. In this series, the story and VR space change according to the exhibition space, and a new version of the story will be told in this exhibition as well.
You can visit the "Virtual Home of Mementos," which is a part of the works in this exhibition. Before the experience, we will explain the manner of the VR worship.
RSV via this url! /galerie16
写真提供 NTTインター・コミュニケーション・センター[ICC]
撮影：木奥恵三
![English follows* 今月京都で展示があります！KyotoGraphieの関連企画 KG+ PICK UPに選んでいただきました。めちゃ久しぶりの関西の展示です、よろしくお願いします～VR体験は予約優先です/galerie16KG+ pick up 27.「バーチャル供養講」｜「Virtual Mementos Association」内田聖良｜Seira Uchidaa ギャラリー16｜galerie16 ️Open: 4/16–4/27 12:00–18:00 Closed: 4/22+++概要+++《バーチャル供養講》は、炎上や分断が「厄災」を生む現在に「ありえるかもしれない架空の信仰」を体験するインスタレーション。VR空間に建てられたお堂に、様々な人の思い出の品が３Dアイテムに変換され奉納されている。内田は本作の制作にあたり青森の地蔵信仰で目に見えない死者と人々が供物によって関わるインタラクションをリサーチし、現代の見えざる他者―アルゴリズムによって分断された人々を想像させる手法に転換した。思い出の品の３Dオブジェクトへの変換は、大量の写真を3次元に合成する手法「フォトグラメトリ」によって行われる。これらのデータをダウンロード可能な状態にし、別のゲーム等の一部として活用＝（転生）させ未来の物語の生成プロセスに介入するなど、現代の写真のあり方や記憶の流通・価値についての模索が行われる。 本シリーズは、展示空間に合わせ物語とVR空間が変化しており、本展でも新版が語られる予定。VRお参り体験：本展覧会では作品の一部である「バーチャル供養堂」お参り体験ができます。体験前にVRお参り作法をご説明いたします。お参りご希望の方は、下のURLからご予約ください。/galerie16**outline** Virtual Mementos Association" is a series of installations that allows visitors to experience an "imaginary faith that might be possible" in today's world where flaming and divisions by algorithms create social issues. In creating this work, Uchida researched the interactions between people and the invisible deceased through offering objects in the Jizo faith in Aomori, Japan. And then she converted it to a method that imagines the invisible others of today - people divided by algorithms. The transformation of memorial items into 3D objects is done through photogrammetry, a technique that synthesizes large numbers of photographs into three-dimensional objects. The data is made available for downloading and used as a part of other games to intervene in the process of creating stories in the future(she calls the process as reincarnation of the objects), thus exploring the nature of contemporary photography and the distribution and value of memory. In this series, the story and VR space change according to the exhibition space, and a new version of the story will be told in this exhibition as well.You can visit the "Virtual Home of Mementos," which is a part of the works in this exhibition. Before the experience, we will explain the manner of the VR worship.RSV via this url! /galerie16写真提供 NTTインター・コミュニケーション・センター[ICC]撮影：木奥恵三](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6865172667445558223826_0_3469bb101f5d4cacbcde4831b460dfc7.jpg?o=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&h=7ae36d9acc86d9474999078fe5d2063b)
