display in japanese (film) context

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dear Kine Japaners

I am currently involved in a small project which deals with forms of  
display as a medium and content. The research is situated in a  
Japanese context, discourse of media and knowledge, and some on the  
list might have some advice or link to relevant sites. The project  
looks into the increasing rarefaction of print and physical books  
leading to a situation where books are becoming a luxury. Historically  
and conceptually one can perhaps refer to ideas around access to  
knowledge, the book or text as precious object, but also to the  
presentation of sacred versus profane forms, print, or other methods  
of display and presentation. In the Muslim world, for example, they  
use rahlés to display the Qu'ran.
I am trying to find out more about these devices related to Japan,  
e.g. Shinto religion, Ainu, sacred manuscripts or scriptures, how  
these generate a kind of archive of display, and how they have been  
presented in film respectively. Does anyone know of any Japanese films  
including such devices?


Being fairly new to the list, below a bio.

Thank you very much for any advice / link.


Best
Verina







I am an artist and researcher based in London and Tokyo. My interest  
is in the criticality of emerging practices, and the ethics and  
economies of art, with a particular focus on non-linearity, concepts  
of the minor and articulations of democratic, active work. The current  
artistic research takes account of two subjects: the first is the  
incorporation of animation within fine arts; more particularly, my  
actual studies concern the structural coherence between a
single cultural expression, in this case Japanese animation, and  
geographical, institutional and social ideas. By exploring the ways  
animation maintains its ambiguous status (of film, drawing, concept,  
vocabulary) and how it suggests a peculiar relation to the minor, the  
studies attempt to trace its multiple image and reveal the potential  
of animation theory to contribute to new forms of knowledge that grasp  
current art movements and discourse, locally and globally.
The second is the ornament. This project, which includes a  
collaboration with architect Merce Rodrigo García, explores the  
construction of vast and full spaces, complex assemblages in  
architecture and technologically informed environments and networks,  
and creative activities that put into practice a resistance to  
regulated forms and a reconstruction of a local common.





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