HIKU 引く
A multimedia installation by Eric Minh Cuong Castaing & Anne-Sophie Turion
During several weeks, we immersed ourselves in the daily life of New Start Kansai NPO hikikomori support centre (Osaka prefecture). This allowed us to get in touch several individuals. What does such a phenomenon say about our contemporary societies and its competitive and individualistic model?
Part documentary, part fiction, HIKU sets ups the conditions for a meeting that seems impossible : that of the audience with these individuals who had chosen a radical social withdrawal. By combining pre-recorded voices, videos shot in public space, and sporadic performatives actions through web-operated Mobile Tele-Presence Robots HIKU stage around ten hikikomori. Sheltered from the real world outside, the exhibition space becomes an intimate and political appearence frame for these invisibles of the society.
Website of co-author artist Anne Sophie Turion
Extract of exchange with hikikomori (avril 2020) :
Conception and realization:
Eric Minh Cuong Castaing, Anne-Sophie Turion
Display :
Anne-Sophie Turion
editing :
Eric Minh Cuong Castaing, Anne-Sophie Turion
Performer translator (France) : casting in progress
On-site performers (Osaka) : casting in progress
(we are currently working with 15 hikikomori in rehabilitation)
Collaboration, logistical help, mediation : Takahasi San, director of New Start Kansai NPO
Translation and collaboration on site : Thomas Poujade Sound design: Renaud Bajeux
Robotic : casting in progress
Guidance and support on site :
Nicolas Tajan (Program-Specific Associate Professor Kyoto University, psychologue au Kyoto Counseling office et auteur de “Génération Hikikumori” aux Editions l’Harmattan) Takuya Matsumoto
(Program-Specific Professor Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies)
Main partners in Japan
Villa Kujoyama (Kyoto) with the support of Fondation Bettencourt Schueller and the Institut français
New Start Kansai NPO (Takatsuki)
Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies (Kyoto)
Partners in France
3bisf art visual center (Aix-en-Provence)
2 angles art vusal center (Flers)
Triangle-Astérides art visual center (Marseille)
Others Partnership are in building
Sketchdrawing by Anne-Sophie Turion : Customizing of robots & scenographic space
