Eating Tour For Freedom#1

Eating Tour For Freedom#1
2023
Performance, single channel video, 06’24”

This video work was created during Yamaguchi’s residency at Shin-Yurakucho Sonoaida, awarded as part of the A-TOM ART AWARD 2022 Sonoaida Prize. Yamaguchi performed an act of infiltration into buildings that were once requisitioned and off-limits to Japanese citizens (including the Dai-ichi Life Building, Tokyo Kaikan, and Meiji Yasuda Life Building Annex, which served as GHQ headquarters), while eating American food. The food items chosen were those familiar to Yamaguchi from his time studying in the United States. The chewing sounds, captured by a voice recorder concealed on his chest, reverberate loudly throughout the video, evoking images of exploitation. However, simultaneously, Yamaguchi physically embodies the changing circumstances – spaces once inaccessible to Japanese people can now be freely entered, with the liberty to eat there, albeit impolitely.

Eating Tour For Freedom#1
Performance, single channel video, installation
ON LIMITS / Shinyurakucho#Sonoaida, Tokyo, Japan

-Appearance-

Feb 24, 2023 – Feb 26, 2023
ON LIMITS
Shinyurakucho#Sonoaida, Tokyo, Japan

Oct 20, 2023 – Oct 29, 2023
Itsumono Sono aida
Shinyurakucho#Sonoaida, Tokyo, Japan