A portrait of a town under the spell of a lucid dream, Tasogare documents the uncanny threshold between day and night and the ways time is revealed though processes of entropy, cycles of nature, movement and ceremony. An impressionistic audiovisual poem moving from light into dark, reflecting the syncretism of Buddhist and Shinto philosophies and Japanese folklore.
The work features Australian performance artist Mark Kleine as a character inspired by the transgender Shinto deity Ishi Kore Dome, 16th generation Japanese tea ceremony master Fuyuko Kobori performing chanoyu, biwa musician Kenji Mizoguchi playing to a chorus of cicadas, and artist Yuki Negishi performing Bon Odori.
Tasogare was exhibited as an installation in a 280 year old former sake brewery in Onishi, Japan in April 2017 and premiered as a single channel video at ACMI, Melbourne, as part of the Video Visions program curated by Channels Festival, in September 2017.
Tasogare (2017)
10 minutes
Single channel digital video, stereo sound