不純物と免疫

Impurity / Immunity

HASWGAWA Arata, exhibition curator

‘Impurity / Immunity’, which has been selected for ‘OPEN SITE 2017–2018’ is a project to face our contemporaneity in the form of an ex­hi­bi­tion. Par­tic­i­pat­ing artists are Shun Owada, Ken Sasaki, Yusuke Taninaka, Hirofumi Nakamoto, Takeshi Hyakutou and Eriko Mukai. This ex­hi­bi­tion will tour to Okinawa after the pre­miere at Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo.

To search for the ways to ‘co-exist’ in the con­tem­po­rary society where com­plex­i­ty and confusion are seem­ing­ly growing greater, this ex­hi­bi­tion intro­duces two concepts; ‘impurity’ and ‘immunity’. Vividly de­scrib­ing a civ­i­li­sa­tion where attempts of protecting the uniqueness and purity of own ironically results in ex­tinc­tion of their com­mu­ni­ty, Roberto Esposito uses the concept to ‘immunity’. Such at­ti­tude seen in the ‘9.11’ or in Nazism, for example, can be ex­plained as a thorough ‘auto­immunization’. Anything can conflict with a cer­tain immune system as an ‘impurity,’ rather, ‘coexistence’ is a con­tin­u­ous active tension between impurities and immunities.

‘Impurity / Immunity’ is a project that confronts the era, together with a faith to be an ‘impurity’.