Featured on 朝日新聞DIGITAL , Mar 13, 2018
宮崎）イオンモール宮崎で内覧会 １６日にオープン
増床工事が完了し１６日にグランドオープンする宮崎市のイオンモール宮崎で１２日、報道関係者向けの内覧会があった。増床棟「サウスモール」や人工芝の中庭広場が公開された。（Excerpt from the text）
Story of the Time when Gods were Everywhere
Sisyu + teamLab, 2013-, Interactive Digital Installation, Calligraphy: Sisyu, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi
Contesto dell’opera
The origin of Chinese characters
Since ancient times, words have been seen as possessing a spiritual power, the spiritual power of language. However, as words disappear, this spiritual power of language could not reside in words. According to the theories of Chinese literary scholar Shizuka Shirakawa, characters were born so that the power that people invested in words could be sustained and made more effective by putting the words down as pictographs.
Chinese characters are believed to have been created around 1200 BC, during the Shang Dynasty.
Kings of that era communicated with the gods through fortunetelling. Fortunetelling was practiced in connection with rituals and weather, and with every major decision concerning the dynasty, including war, harvests, and hunting. Inscribing records of communications with gods (fortunetelling) on tortoise shells or animal bones in the form of pictographs was the beginning of oracle bone script – that is, Chinese characters.
Reference
Shirakawa, Shizuka. Kanji: Oitachi to Sono Haikei. Iwanami Shoten, 1970.
Matsuoka Seigō. Shirakawa Shizuka: Kanji No Sekaikan. Heibonsha, 2008.
Come interagire con l’opera
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Touch the symbols and observe the response.2
Images will arise from the symbols.3
A story will begin to unfold.
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