Yuko Nakamura "Suspended"

Filmmaker and artist Yuko Nakamura produces her first AR film, focusing on children with ill parents. “When you live with parents who are sick, omens of illness and death appear in the house. As the child experiences the world through these signs, its images approach them in high-resolution,” she explains. One-by-one, viewers visit a house that appears formerly inhabited by a family, experiencing a duplicated world from a child’s perspective.
In the age of coronavirus, we are all forced to live in a state of physical and mental anxiety. How much of our indescribable pain and sensations can we heal by experiencing “life” in limbo, nearing death?

Yuko Nakamura was born in Tokyo in 1977 and graduated from Keio University’s Faculty of Letters as a Philosophy major. Following her work as an editor at a philosophy publisher, she joined TV MAN UNION. She is involved in the creation of many narrative documentaries that dive past the surface of the modern world, treating topics such as art and architecture, philosophy and more. Her films include “Memories of Origin: Hiroshi Sugimoto”; “A Room of Her Own: Rei Naito and Light” (official selection at 2017 Canadian International Documentary Festival Hot Docs 2017); TV documentary WOWOW “Memories of Origin: Contemporary Artist Hiroshi Sugimoto” (finalist for International Emmy Award for Arts Programming 2012); NHK “Illusory Tokyo Project: Three Potential Dreams of the Capital” (winner of Galaxy Honors for programs recommended 2015); NHK “Architecture Knows: Postwar 1970 as Seen From Landmarks,” and more.
In Theater Commons Tokyo ’19, she directed the reading performance of Susan Sontag’s “Alice in Bed.” Her long-running essay series, “Mothering: Our Voice, Our Care in Modern Society” in literary magazine Subaru, has finally been published as a single author for the first time in Dec, 2020.

Dates
February 11th (Thu)-28th (Sun)
Weekdays | 15:00/15:30/16:00/16:30/17:00/17:30/
18:00/18:30/19:00
Weekends and holidays | 11:00/11:30/12:00/12:30/13:00/13:30/
14:00/14:30/15:00/15:30/16:00/16:30/17:00
Days off | February 15th (Mon), 22nd (Mon)

How to Participate:
In-person participation | Booking essential. Show general admission pass on entry.
– This work is meant to be experienced one person at a time.
– Participants will be guided at the time of their reservation on a first come, first served basis.

Online participation: Please access the event via the link sent upon your reservation.

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