UNMANNED 無人駅の芸術祭／大井川2024

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Instant coffee　　

A NOOK

Nookのインスピレーションは、バンクーバーのアパートの一室にある普通のキッチン。独立した直立構造の中に設置されたテーブルを中心に、両側に2つのベンチが配置され、この居心地の良い空間は、観客を中に入って座り、時間を過ごすように誘います。
家庭的な日常の経験は公共の空間に変わり、これらの構造物は彫刻であると同時に、社会的相互作用のための起爆剤としての役割を果たします。これらは、芸術の使用価値と生活の一般的な質についての全体的な議論をするために作られました。一緒に食事をしたり、親睦を深めたりすることは、親密かつ排他的なものであり、ネットワークと友情に大きく依存しています。

この構造物は、Instant Coffeeのメンバーの一人が住んでいたアパートに存在したキッチンのnookを再現したもので、アーティスト、アイデア、食べ物や飲み物が集まり、多くの集まりがあった場所です。以前のバージョンのnookは、しばしば複数個展示されていました。この空間では頻繁に活発な活動が行われ、そのうちの一つである明るい色のnookは、角を曲がるとレコードプレーヤーの周りに観客が集まっている様子を発見することができ、彼らの活動はカメラで撮影され、隣接するnookでその映像を見ることができます。別のnookでは、ここから聞こえる音が隣のnookに放送されている間、鏡の天板に映る自分の姿が絵のような夕日とともに映し出されるのを見ることができます。
この建築的なカルテットは、鮮やかな色、回転するミラーボールの群れによる渦巻く光、壁に貼られたポスターやインスタントコーヒーのアーティスト集団のマニフェストによって、すべて一体となっています。Nookの建築形態は、標準的なギャラリー空間の形式的な性質とは対照的であり、社会的な交流、交換、思索、遊びを優先する観客を表しています。

抜里で私たちは、美しい茶畑、密林のような山を回りながら流れる大井川を見ながら、このすべてを一緒に鑑賞できる場所を設けたいと思いました。このNookのほとんどの材料は、木材コンクリートの骨組みとして使われた構造物をリサイクルし、材料本来の形をそのまま使って、既存のnookを新しいサイズと形で再現することができました。明るい色のこのNookは、私たちに未来のための道を考え、親睦を図り、楽しむことができる場所を提供しながら、以前のnookを思い出させます。

A NOOK by Instant Coffee @ NUKURI An ordinary kitchen in a Vancouver apartment building is the inspiration for this Nook, a sculpture built by the artist collective Instant Coffee. Composed of two benches on either side of a table built into a freestanding, upright structure, these intimate spaces invite viewers to enter inside, take a seat and spend some time. The experience of the domestic is transposed into a public space, these structures act both as sculpture and catalyst for social interaction. They are meant to address critical discussions around use value of art and general quality of life. Eating together and socializing is intimate and can be exclusionary and heavily reliant on a network and friendships. The structure is a replica of a kitchen nook that existed in one of Instant Coffee member’s apartment; it is a place where much gathering happened, the gathering of artist, ideas, food and drink. In previous iterations the NOOKS they were often exhibited in multiples. The space is frequently animated. One rounds the corner to find people gathered around the record player in one of the brightly coloured nooks. Their activities are caught on camera, viewable from the adjacent nook. In another, one's reflection is visible on a mirrored tabletop alongside those of picturesque sunsets, while sound miked from this nook is broadcast in the neighbouring one. Together, these architectural quadruplets are united by their bright colours, swirling lights cast by a spinning cluster of mirror balls, a wall of posters and the collective's manifesto. The architectural forms of the nooks stand in contrast to the formality of standard gallery spaces and script a decidedly different viewership, one that privileges social interaction, exchange, contemplation and play. Here at Nukuri upon seeing the beautiful tea farms and the mountains and the Ooi-river, it struck us how we wanted to bring a place to appreciate all these things together. By using recycled and salvaged wood we were able to replicate the original nook in new dimensions and forms dictated by the nature of salvaged material which were mostly wooden concrete forms, this brightly coloured Nook can echo the previous nooks while giving us a place to contemplate and socialize and entertain our way into the future. Instant Coffee is an artist collective now based in Seoul, Toronto and Vancouver(Canada). Developed as a response to the traditional split of art production and presentation, the collective creates spaces and situations that allow for public interaction, conversation and the exchange of ideas through installations, situations and events. Instant Coffee has exhibited across Canada and internationally, including at the Toronto Sculpture Garden, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Public Art Program, Trans-link, Vancouver; MKG127, Toronto; Rum 46 Gallery, Aarhus, Denmark; Flaggfabrikken, Bergen, Norway; Sparwasser HQ, Berlin; Mercer Union, Toronto; Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Francisco; San Juan Triennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico; and La Casa del Encuentro, Medellin, Colombia. *Part of the NOOK description was taken from text Kathleen Ritter wrote for an exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery Jinhan Ko Sunny Lee

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ソウル、カナダのトロント、バンクーバーを拠点とするアーティスト集団。安価に大量生産される象徴としてインスタントコーヒーを名とし、唯一無二でお金だけでない価値をアートワークとして提示、生み出すことを行う。インスタレーション、イベント、ワークショップを通じ、公共の相互作用、対話、アイデア委交換を可能とする空間と状況を作り出す。

Instant Coffee is a service oriented artist collective based in Toronto, Vancouver and Seoul. The domain name Instant Coffee was registered in May of 2000. Through formal installations and event-based activities, it builds a public place to practice, where ideas, materials and actions can be explored outside of the isolated studio and in a manner that renegotiates traditional exhibition structures, but is still supported by them.
Instant Coffee’s frequent practice is to build architectural installations, which become venues for a series of organized events from formal lectures and screenings to informal gatherings and workshops. Each installation requires hosts who initiate some form of social interaction through the presentation and performance of ideas that pertain to artistic production and discourse.
Instant Coffee has an extensive art practice, and as an artist collective we have been invested in combining the social with the aesthetic, and as such have worked in public spaces to engage expanded audiences. We have shown extensively nationally and internationally, and have exhibited in many prominent art institutions as well as have produced numerous permanent and temporary public art projects.
Together we have developed a multi-disciplinary practice that culminates in bringing together large numbers of artists, designers, musicians, architects, writers and other cultural producers.