Suppose that you were working at an event site and you had to set up a “machine that automatically takes pictures when a visitor passes in front of the camera”, but nobody told you anything about it. Only one camera, set up by the director, can be used. Inevitably, someone in a hidden spot ends up manually triggering the shutter with remote control. Hearing about this, the director says, “So what? That’s no different than simply opening and closing the automatic doors around it, right?”

Would he be satisfied if the shutter were tripped automatically by a sensor, and not by a human? But then, what makes it different from the automatic doors in the area? After that, we never worked together again, so I never learn the answer to that.

This wonderful building apparently was an inn during the Edo period, but as you can see, it’s sort of partly mixed with something like a Showa-era apartment building. Looking under the floors and behind the walls, the beams and pillars that seem to be from the time of construction have intricately cut tenons. I didn’t see this as an Edo-era building that was renovated in the Showa-era, but instead got the impression that the renovation was continuous, so the building contained all kinds of old features. Here, the work was completed through a process of carefully searching through those various types of oldness for aspects that do not affect on the site’s value as a cultural property.

• PERFORMANCE [Nagoya Castle Area]

  Horio Kanta“Automatic door without a door”

  Date:

  November 20th Sat. 15:00-15:30

  Venue:

  Nagoya Noh Theater Conference Room

  Capacity:

  First 30 persons

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