Hilde Fuchs / Shiro Masuyama
Recording
Opening: Wednesday, 12th March, 7pm -
13th March - 11th April 2008
Shiro Masuyama lives and works in Berlin and Kanagawa, Japan and, in the spring of 2008, worked for three months in Krems as an artist-in-residence. Masuyama who was born in Tokyo in 1971 can look back on international experience and a series of studio scholarships. In the past he has been able to
enjoy residencies in, for example, Hong Kong, Dublin, New York, Berlin and Barcelona. Masuyama's room installations and interventions in public spaces are impressive and involve the exhibition public or chance passers-by in his work in order to examine the social and societal function of the art world in an ironic way.
In his current project "Moving (from Vienna to Krems)" he sends a solidly-built wooden crate from Vienna to Krems with a transport company. Inside the crate, however, there is only a hidden video camera that, unnoticed, records the entire journey. However Masuyama's basic intention of capturing images of those coincidentally involved with his artwork, of showing an art transport from an, up till now, unknown perspective as well as documenting the journey of the crate as a cooperation between the Krems Artist-In-Residence Programme and the IG Bildende Kunst Gallery undergoes a drastic heightening because, should there be a security check, the camera and batteries in the crate could give the impression of being a bomb and thus a terrorist provocation.
