The Railway Walk

The Railway Walk
2024
Performance, single channel video, 07’21”

A performance triggered by the news of a friend’s death. While walking through the forest without purpose, Yamaguchi found a railway track and began walking along it.

Railway tracks do not allow one to lose their way. The body walking on the rails is guided in a predetermined direction. The forest, on the other hand, is a space that invites wandering. Between these two opposing forces, Yamaguchi’s body moves forward, charged with tension.

Anthropologist Tim Ingold points out that since modernization, people have become beings who are “transported” rather than those who “travel.” Yamaguchi’s figure walking on the railway track exists on this boundary. Walking with his own feet while simultaneously being carried by something—this ambivalence is recorded as a unidirectional moving image.

SCREENINGS

2025 Silent Interference / Turtle chamber project, Taiwan

2024 Hazama Visual Arts Festival / Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin, Germany