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JAN 24, 2015
Created Year:2023年
On January 24, 2015, Taisuke Morishita met Rokudenashiko for the first time at the "Nonfree Expression Exhibition" held at Gallery Furuto. The "Peace Girl" was also on display there, and Rokudenashiko sat down next to the statue while showing her "Cunt Girl.
The chair is a performative work in the sense that the artist tries to experience the unreasonableness of what the statue experienced from the same position. This work was created as a monument to the moment when these two symbols of the "inconvenience of expression" of the decade came together.
I had no idea at the time that this "nonfree exhibition" would develop into the major event that shook the whole country in 2019. At the time, Mashiko said, "It is not like in some socialist countries, where the artist was not arrested as a political criminal, the work was not forcibly removed, it was simply 'opinion' of a politician, not a tome, so if you are an artistic director who truly cares about the artists and their works, you should steadily If he is truly concerned about the artists and the work, he should have made a little more effort to continue negotiations with the people involved and avoid cancellation." Morishita himself also stated that he would have made a more concerted effort to avoid the cancellation of the event. Morishita himself was a member of the executive committee for the "Non-Free Expression Exhibition Tokyo" from 2021 to 2022, the first time at Session House Garden, a gallery in Kagurazaka, which was cancelled due to pressure from a publicity truck that learned of the advance information, and the second time in Osaka in July, when a lawsuit was filed against the mayor for not allowing the use of the venue due to suppression by the mayor, which led to the cancellation of the event and its execution. In response to these events, the organizers aimed to hold the festival at a public facility.
As a result, the event was held at Kunitachi in April 2022, but only after repeated meetings between Kunitachi City, the Tachikawa Police Department, the lawyers' group, and the Executive Committee, and it was finally held successfully under a formidable security system with police and riot police providing security for the street protest vehicles during the event and even metal detection gates at the entrance. The event was finally held without incident under such a heavy security system. The Aichi Triennale could have escaped cancellation if a similar security system had been put in place, but Daisuke Tsuda, the prefectural governor of Aichi Triennale, probably had no intention of doing so. The subsequent verification committee, which brought together experts in the art world, also ended the Aichi Triennale while ignoring the true nature of the problem.
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