Cheering Sakae Osugi at his birthplace, 2015-16

ビデオスティル、2015
Video still, 2015

大杉栄を故郷で応援する
2015-16, シングルチャンネルのビデオ（39分05秒）
明治・大正期における代表的なアナーキストで、関東大震災の直後には憲兵隊によって虐殺されてしまった大杉栄は、本人の伝記によれば香川県丸亀市で生まれたことになっているが、永らくその生家の正確な場所が判明しないままであった。大杉と交流のあった歌人らの複数の記憶と証言を繋ぎ合わせることで、丸亀市内に大杉の生家と思われる場所を発見されるに至るが、既に家屋は消滅し門構えだけがかろうじて当時の姿を伝えるのみの荒地であった。丸亀市内を徘徊する超スローモーション映像に「行け！行け！大杉栄！」と届くことはない虚しい無音の応援歌を重ねることによって、消え去りつつある過去の社会運動の歴史と現状を、現在の都市風景の中で繋げようと試みる。

Cheering Sakae Osugi at his birthplace
2015-16, single channel video (39’05 min)
Sakae Osugi, a well-known anarchist in the Meiji/Taisho era who was massacred by the military police force immediately after the Great Kanto Earthquake, was believed to be born in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture according to his biography, but the exact location of his birthplace had been unknown for a long time. By connecting together memories and testimonies of poets who were familiar with Osugi, a place that seems to be the birthplace of Sakae Osugi was finally found in Marugame. But the place was a wasteland where his house had already disappeared and only a gate was left as part of the original house. By overlapping a never reaching, vacant and silent cheering song of “Go! Go! Sakae Osugi!” to the super slow motion video of Niwa wandering the town of Marugame, Niwa attempts to integrate the history of past social movements that are fading away and present state, within the urban landscape.