PerformancesRadiation of Human Body

Solo monologue with visual image projection conceived in the midst of Fukushima nuclear meltdown of Mar 11, 2011. This work is inspired by her friend, who was surviving parallel radiation of "nuclear" catastrophe on one hand, and a "radiation" therapy for healing purposes on the other for her breast cancer.

The friend had recorded the transformative state of her body with a cellphone / home camera, every time she received a treatment. She delegated Miho to use her photographs. Miho printed them on soft rice papers. Fears, courage, strength. Body undergoing markups, swells, burns and healing. Light that was on her when the photographs were taken. Encapsulating that moment when the dawn of light shined on the photographs, which awakened the artist to a “sense of life.”


311に地球が揺れ、原発から放射能が放出されることになるその瞬間、虎の門病院で乳がんの放射線治療を受けていた友人。かたや破壊、かたや治療(再生)のダブル放射能体験を生きながら、彼女は身を確かめるように放射線治療の都度、携帯電話や携帯カメラで自身を記録していた。私は記録を受け取り、写真を加工し和紙にプリントした。その後、パフォーマンス作品にし、映像にして起用。自分自身、放射線恐怖に身が震える中、311から1ヶ月後に彼女の写真を夜通しプリントし、朝日が差した時に浮かび上がった、彼女の人の体の変わりゆく模様、生きる勇気、その美しさに息を呑んだ。生きる感覚をテーマとした、写真投影とモノローグパフォーマンスの作品である。


Conceived and performed by Miho Tsujii
Photographs contributed by the subject and produced by Miho Tsujii
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