Artist
Artist
SAKAI Zon + TIAR
Japan
Concept of the work
Heavy Duty
Reaching old age, We, the baby boomers, are approaching an explosion point.
Bewildered by the youth we’ve lost, We fear getting yet older and older.
My artwork explores the role of entropic air within
Rubber as it continuously transforms in response to
Internal pressures in the same way that Our expressions are manipulated by our interior emotions.
Duration: 2'50"
Year: 2025
Performance: Zon Sakai
Photography and Film: Takashi Takura, Keizo Kobashi
Produced by Tanushimaru Institute for Art Research (TIAR)
Profile
Born in Fukuoka in 1948, Sakai started his artistic activities while working as a typical businessperson from the boomer generation. Since 1996, Sakai began exhibiting his large-sized rubber-tube sculpture at museums and galleries. Sakai then started Heavy Duty street performance by visiting various places while wearing his rubber-tube sculpture. He has done his performance domestically at National Diet Building, Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome, and areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, as well as internationally at international art festival sites in Korea, the United States, Germany, Italy, France, Azerbaijan, Benin, and New Zealand. In 2020, Sakai joined Tanushimaru Institute for Art Research (TIAR).
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