Taro Hattori -Installation Work

23 Lines After Anicka Yi

May 5th, 2025

I am surrounded by a permeable membrane that separates the inside and the outside.
The permeable membrane is structured by perceptions.
I am a human.
I do not receive the world as it is but very limited aspects of it through a series of perceptions that humans could obtain and preserve.
I have these perceptions.
- Equilibrioceptive (balance)
- Proprioceptive (movement)
- Nociceptive (pain and wellness)
- Tactile (touch)
- Gustatory (taste)
- Olfactory (smell)
- Thermoceptive (warmth, heat, and absence of heat)
- Visual (documentation of dimensions)
- Auditory (hearing)
- Phoneme (language)
- Thought
- Ego
I receive the world as Umwelt. If the moon suddenly disappears, I may simply weep for a few days, but the corals stop breeding
I record the accumulation of information from those perceptions and write a fiction called Self using the faculty of language, numbers, images, indexes, and symbols.
“I” need “Thou” to be “I”.
“We” need “They” to be “We”.
All of them are in the fiction inside of me and malleable.
With certain external stimulation or internal cognition, “I” becomes “Thou” becomes “We” becomes “They” becomes “I”.
I am a construct of someone else. I bear strangers within myself.
The Mirror Neurons bridge strangers. The We-Mode bridges strangers.
Those bridges are surrounded by the “Unknown,” and every time I receive an external stimulation deviant from the cognitive inference, I rewrite teh fiction.
The Mirror Neurons in the body of “I” respond to and correspond with the body of “Thou”.
“Thou” said that my body smells like a muskmelon.
The body of “We” responds to an corresponds with the body of “They”.
Body has its own language.
The pain has its own language. It reminds me of my body, the body of “Thou,” “We,” and “They”.
Body responds to and corresponds with the Flesh of the World, the physicality of the environment.
I feel the presence of ta deceased friend on a piece of pyrite through the projection of the fiction from Body to the Flesh of the World.
Projection of the fiction fron Body bridges between “I” and “Thou,” “We” and “They,” and humans and more-than humans, and machines.
The membrane between them becomes so permeable and one flows into the other, and every one of us starts living in the liminal milieu with unanswered questions.

Inspired by the writings by

Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Giacomo Rizzolatti and Laila Craighero
Rudolf Steiner
Jakob von Uexküll and Thomas Sebeok
Victor and Edith Turner
Martin Buber
Julia Kristeva
Karl Friston
Wafaa Bilal
Boris C. Bernhardt and Tania Singer
Susan Sontag
Mattia Gallotti and Chris D. Frith

熟考を要する質問

June 7th, 2024

素朴ながらその詳細について色々と考えないと実はよくわからない質問をここに書き足してゆく。

音のピッチはなぜ高低で表すのか？　身体感覚との関係はあるか？
十進法はなぜ１０なのか？　単に指の数との関係か？
脳はどう内と外という考えを作り出しているのか？　社会的グループ分けにおける「私達」と「彼ら」の識別と知覚による内情報と外情報の識別・認識の仕組みに関係あるか？

Renaissance to Baroque

August 18th, 2017

Passacaglias

June 24th, 2017

Examples of Passacaglia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r2Ht7LvTnc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKg9qzR6dkU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RJgoXeMFow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QPfGjYPopc

Cruelty in Art

January 10th, 2015

Deborah Solomon interviewed Marlene Dumas on the New York Times in June 2008, and there Marlene commented on “cruelty” in art as a quality an impressive artwork has. I have never used the word cruelty for art, but I totally agreed when I read the article.

I (D. Solomon) asked her (M. Dumas) if she saw a difference between European figurative painting and its young New York cousins, exemplified by artists like Elizabeth Peyton, with her dreamy, jewel-like portraits of rocks stars and friends. “For me, that is not cruel enough,” Dumas said. “I like it a bit crueler. Francis Bacon once said that is why he went for figuration against abstraction — he didn’t like Pollock as much because he said abstraction couldn’t be cruel enough for him. I did get things from Francis Bacon — the fact of the figure in an abstract background. It is a figure, but where is the figure?”

It is like when Mishima talked about quality of good novel. He said something like, a good novel won’t answer any question, but it leaves us with an unanswered question in a very cruel way.”

Bach BWV 1058 Keyboard Concerto in G minor

August 8th, 2012

Again, this 2nd movement… I know it’s an overly sweet one, this music has been twirling in my brain these days since I came to Millay Colony. I don’t know why, but it may be because this music functions as the refrain which allows me to create a psychological space/bubble around me which protects me…