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The five-channel sound installation "Stolen Scars" by Eiki Mori was exhibited in the "Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual vol.10 There Is No Boundaries Here./?” at the Takamatsu Art Museum from February 11 to March 21, 2022. And this is the documentary soundtrack of that work.
“There is a boy who has been deeply hurt, heartbroken and has not recover yet. You can’t talk to him or rub his back. Instead, you can only ring this bell for him.”
When Mori created "Stolen Scars,” he first sent a handbell and the above note to his friends. They recorded the sound of handbells in their own environment and with their own feelings. Mori looped the recorded data and created five sound sources. In the museum installation, different loop sound sources were repeatedly played from five horn speakers placed near the ceiling of the exhibition space.
The documentary sound was recorded in cooperation with the Takamatsu Art Museum during the hours after the museum closed. Recording, mixing, and mastering was done by Masami Baba(salad). He also participated as a co-star in a performance version of "Stolen Scars" that was held as a related event to the exhibition.
The performance can be viewed on the Takamatsu Art Museum's Instagram below.
www.instagram.com/tv/CZ1V4znFOkO/?
The CD package includes an English translation of the correspondence between Koichi Miyazaki, a certified clinical psychologist and certified psychologist, and Mori, which was distributed at the exhibition. In the correspondence, they begin with the subject of this work, they talk about the current state of male injury and sexual abuse, long considered an invisible issue within gender norms.
*The Japanese version can be viewed and downloaded from the exhibition website below.
www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/museum/takamatsu/event/exhibitions/exhibitions_2021/exhibitions_2021/ex_20220211.files/stolenscars_annu_2022.pdf
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Eiki Mori
www.eikimori.com
released October 7, 2022
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The sound of handbells by
Jun Asai
Ruriko Asai
Yoshifumi Asai
Taichiro Hiratsuka
Eri Hirose
Cheng Kuan Hsieh
Shunsuke Iwamoto
Kazusa Kato
Young Joo Kim
Shohei Kon
Avery Lau
Isho Lee
Tony Kuo Li
Kazunari Michishita
Kyohei Miyagata
Hirokazu Miyazaki
Vincent Mur
Sei Nakamura
Shotaro Nemoto
Tao Oiwa
L. S.
Naoki Uchida
Ivan Yi
Yosuke Yuki
Daisuke Watanuki
Zuo Weiwei
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Special Thanks
Tomoko Ishida (Takamatsu Art Museum)
Kenichi Nakahashi (KEN NAKAHASHI)
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Original sound installation by Eiki Mori
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Recording date: 5 March 2022
Recording location: Takamatsu Art Museum
10-4 Konyamachi, Takamatsu,Kagawa, Japan 760-0027
www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/museum/takamatsu/english/index.html
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Recorded, Mixing and Mastering by Masami Baba
Co-operation: Takamatsu Art Museum, KEN NAKAHASHI
Directed by Eiki Mori
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Design by Shin Akiyama, Keiko Miyahara / edition.nord
Photographs by Morito Kozuma
Published by immeasurable
© 2022 Eiki Mori