The Railway Walk

The Railway Walk
2024
Performance, single channel video, 07’26”

As anthropologist Tim Ingold suggests, since modernization, people may no longer “move” by their own agency but are rather “transported.” Perhaps we are drawn to the forest because, deep down, we long for the chance to wander and get lost. In response, Yamaguchi performed a piece where they walked along a railroad track they happened to find in the forest. The work captures the contrast between the direct, unyielding path of the rails—which don’t permit deviation—and the forest, which invites wandering and instability. This tension is recorded as a video progressing in a single direction.