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Koki Tanaka 田中功起
Everything is Everything 一即一切
2006
Koki Tanaka’s eight-channel video installation Everything is Everything presents a variety of everyday objects, highlighting some unexpected visual similarities between them. Tanaka, along with two assistants, gathered the items from the streets of Taipei. They then filmed each other activating or utilising the objects in atypical ways, going against the objects’ original function. For example, Tanaka and his assistants are featured spinning a broom rather than using it to sweep the floor; using bottles to spray water at each other; and throwing a trash can down a flight of stairs. Human agents animate the objects as they choose, rather than subscribing to the objects’ normative, predetermined function.
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