TOKYO TRIPES

Synopsis

Introduction

Deux moniteurs TV supperposés font face à une projetion - le spectateur, au centre du dispositif, regarde soit la combinaison des images sur les deux moniteurs, soit la projection. L'installation fonctionne avec une boucle de 30 minutes.

La recette pour "Tokyo tripes" est la suivante:

>forget about "ratatouille" (Mediterranean way of making vegetables: to put all together in a pot and boil it in the same sauce... it makes a big mixture of taste and forms)
>choose the "lunch box" style (things are separated in special spaces and staged to be complementary one to each other, in order to conserve the specific taste)
>shoot the images with chopsticks (to hold one element at the time, with the extremity of the zoom)
>make the montage with repetitions and variations (like variations of sushi´s), tend towards abstraction in unity (like the little part of the fish which stands for the whole fish)
>not overcook... try to let things in their raw state
>don´t take the rules too seriously: spontaneity, improvisations about arrangement and timing are welcome !
>eat by picking up little pieces in the different parts of the lunch box, take your time...

Tokyo_notes

Being sort of "addicted" to trips in cities, I often use the camera as tool to filter daily life and simple details of big cities. By squaring things out of their context, I can in a way concentrate about very particular objects or views and try to come closer on what stands behind them: humans, emotions, ambiances...
The first step is to get to an interaction between the city and me, to get involved in a sort of discussion with buildings, movements and persons passing by, and then with putting those images in a new space, to see how people who live in this city are influenced by the space and the constructions which are surrounding them.

Ulrich Fischer, Tokyo, may 2002