Soup (in Teipei, TW)

2014  / video installation (HD video, table, cup etc)
Collaborated with 黄志宏 Matthew Huang  

川の水でスープを作り、味わうプロジェクト。さまざまな文化圏にある家庭のスープ（日本人にとっての味噌汁のようなシンプルなスープ）を都市に流れる川の水を使って作り、飲む。振る舞う。台北の郊外に自分の畑を持ち生活する男性と製作したビデオ。

Tasting River Water as Soups

In this project, soups are cooked with the river water in the city by some people who live near by the river. In the urban city, many kinds of people who have different background live together. They each cook familiar soups of their own cultures, like miso soup for Japanese people using river water. Then, the soups were shared with the people. People can reject to have the soup, of course. In this project, the soups appear as identities of each culture. Through sitting around a table and sharing the soups made from dirty river water, the project proposes to share the cultures and the issues at the same time. And this project shows how difficult to share something in reality of diversity society.  All rivers are connected to the ocean. We share the ocean with all creatures on earth. The human life, various cultures, histories and also battles began in waterside, and our ancestors lived in a simple way of life when people didn’t have any borders of countries.