葛谷允宏 Nobuhiro Kuzuya

我將研究藝術、食物、人們和地方，並在我先前架設的網站上進行介紹。影片會上傳至Instagram和YouTube。研究的所有過程都記錄在網站上。我也想讓當地居民進入這些影片。作為一位日本藝術家，我希望能說出自己所感受到的文化和社會差異。想要邀請當地人加入的原因是為了更具象說出差異處。

我希望能夠從這些差異點發展出我的作品。由於時間短暫，駐村結束後我可能只能有個小作品。

After the 3.11 disaster, Japanese people started to realize the uncertainty of the existence of everyday.

But we do not know whether the destruction was caused by nature, civilization, society, or by a person until the disaster.

There is no way to know what makes everyday stable and unstable.

Everything is under the water and many people do not know about it.

The things that we thought were natural were in fact not as perfect as we thought. In a society that is established on uncertain things, what we have to do now is to doubt the normal and doubt our daily lives.

I think it is one of the ways for choosing a better future.

The smell of the river and the smell of drainage that I felt when I was walking in Taipei, 淡水 and Tainan during the past two weeks, gave me a smell reminiscent of the city river that I spent in my childhood, but it is not a good thing.

The river in the city flows into the 淡水河, which is also a source of water in the northern part of Taiwan. After being purified from each intake facilities, it is safely used as water supply.
The smelly river that runs into the water source for daily use is becoming natural for the people here.

Still tap water is safe and everyone uses it with confidence.

Water supports a stable daily life, and it is one of the most important elements for people to live, such as life support and use in daily life.

So, is not it necessary to doubt the daily behavior of using this water safely instead of the safety of this water?

In order to do so, by getting a feeling of drinking water from this river makes us doubt the actions of believing the invisible circumstances that are supporting our daily life.

I am seeking for an alternative way to communicate something through visual objects, not language, and now I am seeking a dialogue that involves eating and drinking.

The reason why I am trying to seek expressions involving eating and drinking is because the process of communication is born in the course of repeating through making a meal, eating with my family, which I have been daily communicating with since I was a child.

Currently it is carried out also in the BAR which it is done in Japan, intermediary eating and drinking in a dialogue with others, trying to create a dialogue with society through that dialogue.

I will like to present it with two methods this time.

One is a cocktail of water using only river water and ice, imitating a cocktail I do in the BAR I am running in Japan.

The other one simulates a jelly of water that has come to be seen frequently in Japan for several years, this is a confection for enjoying the taste of water.

In Taiwan, jelly-like food is considered to be a food that evokes everyday life in Taiwan, because we often see sweets of jelly here.

The river water used here uses water that has been filtered and distilled beforehand.
If possible, I would like to actually filter and distill wither at that place.

Of course, the decision to eat or not to eat is left to participants.