Purchasing Trash with the Company’s Budget(The War Will Be Announced When It Has Already Begun), 2019

「誰も要求していない計画に全会一致で合意する」、Gallery X by PARCO、東京、2019での展示風景
撮影：TAKAMURADAISUKE
写真提供：PARCO
Installation view at the Gallery X by PARCO, exhibition "We Unanimously Agree on a Plan that Nobody Has Asked For", 2019
Photo by TAKAMURADAISUKE
Courtesy of PARCO

会社の予算でゴミを購入する（戦争は始まったあとでお知らせする）
2019, ネオンチューブと机（1800mm × 450mm × 800mm)
日本のコミュニケーション様式は、数多くの無駄なミーティングを繰り返すことによって「自分には責任はない」「むしろこれは合意のうえである」という漠然とした安心感を獲得することが最重要である。そのため本質的な議論や結論を出すことは好まれず、むしろ結論は出ているはずなのに「顔合わせ」と称した自明の項目を確認するだけの退屈なミーティングが多い。そのため曖昧な世間話の行間から相手の意志をこっそり確認し、それを持って合意したという結論に到達する。このネオン作品は、日本の企業で見られる典型的な木目調の会議机に蛍光イエローのネオン管が直接打ち付けられており、そこに集まるものに会議するための意義などないのではないかと呼びかける。

Purchasing Trash with the Company’s Budget(The War Will Be Announced When It Has Already Begun)
2019, neon tube and table (1800 mm x 450 mm x 800 mm)
In the Japanese communication style where people repeatedly have unnecessary meetings, it’s most important to acquire a vague feeling of safety by confirming that ‘I am not the one responsible’ or ‘I am not sure about this, but we have already reached an agreement’. Because of this, it is preferred to have meetings without an essential discussion or decision making and often lead to holding boring meetings, the so-called ‘Kao-awase’, in which consensus is already reached and only obvious details are confirmed. Therefore, participants secretly try to confirm others’ opinion by reading between the lines of a vague small talk and conclude that they have reached an agreement by this confirmation. This neon work is comprised of a fluorescent yellow neon tube directly installed on a typical wood-pattern meeting table that is often used at a Japanese company and questions the audience: Is there any meaning to hold a meeting for those who are gathered there?