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GAYU-Temple under the bridge railway track

In this project, a 17-meter statue of Goddess is created using construction waste materials, discarded furniture, etc. under the bridge railway track next to Nishi-Chiba Station.
Artwork on panels on the body of Goddess lying under the railway track depicts people who reside in the area, which shapes a huge statue of Goddess as a whole. The space where the Goddess lies is named “Temple under the Bridge Railway Track “and a place to appeal and pray for daily sufferings and hopes is prepared in cooperation with people in the neighborhood.

The project attempts to build a temple in the field of art, where we can take a moment off those ideas socially accepted in general which have become our criteria before we even know it – useful/useless, natural/artificial, past/future, clean/dirty, success/failure, convenience/inconvenience, valuable/worthless, meaningful/meaningless, progress/recession, wealth/poverty, silence/noise, goodwill/malice, reason/absurd, etc.
In the project, the place where various materials and ideas exist is called “Temple under the Bridge Railway Track, “ which is centered around the Goddess, lying down and having deep thoughts overlooking people’s daily lives.

[Types of citizen involvement] providing materials, Workshop, Participation in production, Exhibition viewing

Schedule

・Mid June to end of July: Collection of materials
Collect pillars, beams and wooden furniture from demolished houses and store them at the exhibition venue under the rail track next to Nishi-Chiba Station. Submit an application to JR to obtain permission for the use of the place from mid-June to the end of exhibition period to store materials.

・Early July to August 20: Production of Goddess
Core production members include Ito and two others. The two members have experience of doing several projects with Ito before. Reserve an accommodation for 3 people during the production period.
Recruit volunteers and request production assistance, hopefully two each day. 5 volunteers are required for the first two days of intensive production.

・End of July or early August: Workshop
Recruit about 15 citizens (of any age) and hold a workshop. recruit participants and hold a venue (including workshop).

・Early August: Panel painting and wind chime production
Images drawn at the workshop are painted on panels or paper strips on wind chimes. A workshop and machine tools are necessary.

・Mid August to end of August:
Call for participants of workshop and volunteers and work together to prepare an altar, etc. as a temple.

・Early September to exhibition period:
Completion of artwork”

Base of this art projects

Exhibitions & events of this art project