WE LIVE IN THE STORYWORLD
You might have experience that someone tells you about something you have never seen/used and it makes you really excited or let you want to see/use it. Or you want to see a person just by someone telling you about how s/he is.The storytelling itself can make people imagine things although we have never seen the reality. This is the agency how the story works. It seems to be similar to novels and movies that story steals our heart. The story is more like how we recognise the world and recreating story means architecting the world we live.
Explore the world by collecting narratives,
Recompile the stories to see how the world has been composed,
Revise the scenarios to architect new code of conduct,
This is the way of architecting stories to art and design things.
Nature with stories: people from ancient times see the lights from above and imagine the sacred power of the god
Family stories: we have lots of memories and stories with our family since young age and our way of living has been affected by them (photo: Tokyo Story - a film directed by Yoji Yamada)
Workplace stories: working in the company gives us a meaning of life by playing a role in the society
Product stories: we feel stories such as aesthetics and cultural backgrounds from details such as colour, shape, texture and material (photo: Tale - Moon Glass)
Service and stories: casts, words, props and scenography – designing service seems like creating theater performance
Architecture and stories: building something new means adding new story to surroundings and carefully observing how the place has been changed
Please see details of the activities below:
>> ART PRACTICE
>> DESIGN PRACTICE
中澤 大輔 / Daisuke Nakazawa
artist, designer, and explorer
Daisuke Nakazawa is an artist who deeply listens to the small/individual narratives behind people, places, and rituals performed in our everyday life, composes alternative storylines by connecting the pieces of narratives, to inside-out our perspectives of the world by creating performative interventions.
He is a member and a founder of an artist collective Pepin Structural Designs founded in 1999 with his high school classmates. They originally focused on creating theatrical performances and recently works for art projects outside of theater, visit places to create performative interventions in collaboration with people who lived there as actors, in a cityscape as a stage setting. See details on pepin.jp
Passage Tells Project, his recent art project started since 2015 in London, is a series of site-specific audio documentary presented in several cities such as London, Edinburgh and Tokyo. It focuses on one iconic passage in a city, gives you an alternative story of the passage composed of real voices from people who live and work around there. The audience wears headphones, walk around the passage, and see another cityscape by listening to the surrounded narratives. See details on passagetellsproject.net
There are several ongoing art projects and design activities by Daisuke and you can see some initial researches/ideas and project updates on this site. Please let us know if you are interested in any projects and work together with him by the contact form. See you soon!
