«Having experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake (the Tohoku earthquake), a disaster unprecedented on a national scale, what message should Japan be sending to the world? Alternatively, what questions should it be asking? […]
Under this year’s plan, by assigning equal status to compositional elements that include several projects underway since before the Biennale; collective acts referred to as ‹precarious tasks›; videos documenting the process of collaborative work carried out by people under special circumstances; an exhibition of the cumulative records of all these, plus text and catalogs referencing their processes, we will address the theme, ‹How is it possible to take on the experiences of others as our own?› or ‹How can we share, or take joint possession of, the experience of events?›»
Koki Tanaka, artist, The Japan Pavilion, 2013
a piano played by 5 pianists at once (first attempt)
Recycling The Japan Pavilion
a haircut by 9 hairdressers at once (second attempt)
precarious #0 communal tea drinking
precarious tasks #2 talking about your name while eating emergency food
precarious tasks #3 walk from a city to its suburbs
precarious tasks #4 sharing dreams with others, and then making a collective story
