{"id":1000,"date":"2023-05-04T23:48:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T23:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/takashihorisaki.com\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2023-05-04T23:58:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T23:58:12","slug":"instabonsai-banpaku-remix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/takashihorisaki.com\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"#InstaBonsai Banpaku Remix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>#InstaBonsai Banpaku Remix<\/em>, 2020~2022<br \/>\nCeramic, chromakey green paint, wood, dye sublimation print, digital c-prints<br \/>\nInstallation variable, shown here in 10ft x 15ft space<br \/>\nInitial production supported by NYC&#8217;s City Artist Corps<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/cSl6KC93620\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#InstaBonsai Banpaku Remix Video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>#InstaBonsai Banpaku Remix<\/em> is a sculptural and photograph installation that continues Horisaki\u2019s ongoing <em>#InstaBonsai<\/em> series. Set within a domestic setting while referencing the histories of industrial exposition displays (banpaku in Japanese), the exhibition considers cultural politics in the age of social media through a cut-and-paste approach to history. Thus Horisaki has playfully placed a contemporary re-interpretation of a late nineteenth-century Worlds Fair display within a domestic living space. Touching on themes of materiality, ornament, and orientalism through the lens of reproductive technology, Horisaki considers how the \u201csite\u201d of social media reception\u2014represented here by the home\u2014shifts the materiality, impact, and meaning of cultural circulation.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2021, Horisaki added another layer of feedback to the exhibition through Zoom access to the site. Utilizing the digital manipulation capabilities of remote conferencing software, audiences accessed a live, digitally altered experience of the exhibition from home, work, or even inside the installation. At select points during the run of this virtual digital exhibition, Horisaki presented a two hour performative lecture.<\/p>\n<p><em>#InstaBonsai<\/em> was initially inspired by the variety of forms &#8220;bonsai&#8221; took under the hashtag &#8220;bonsai&#8221; on Instagram. <em>#InstaBonsai<\/em> began as a series of ceramic cactus planters and sculptures, photographs, and social media posts. It developed further when Horisaki realized bonsai forms were codified in the late Edo period, just in time to be featured in the Japanese pavilions of 19th century Worlds Fairs alongside export ceramics, metalwork, cloisonn\u00e9, and other decorative arts. In other words, bonsai\u2019s development and conventionalized forms are intimately tied to cultural politics and colonial trade. Especially in the context of the ongoing COVID crisis that has reshaped society\u2019s relationship with social media, <em>#InstaBonsai<\/em> asks, how do the pressures of social media in late-stage capitalism reshape our ideas of traditions and cultural appropriation\/adaptation? And how does the physicality of different tactile and electronic media further inflect the meaning and movement of emerging cultural products?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#InstaBonsai Banpaku Remix, 2020~2022 Ceramic, chromakey green paint, wood, dye sublimation print, digital c-prints Installation variable, shown here in 10ft x 15ft space Initial production supported by NYC&#8217;s City Artist Corps #InstaBonsai Banpaku Remix Video #InstaBonsai Banpaku Remix is a sculptural and photograph installation that continues Horisaki\u2019s ongoing #InstaBonsai series. 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