Out of Disorder ("Yonomori" Line)
アウト・オブ・ディスオーダー（夜ノ森線）
- Birth Year
- 1975
- Death Year
- -
- Date
- 2011
- Technique, Material, Format
- hair, dust, telescope
- Dimension
- left: 4.8 x 1.7 x 1.0 cm, center: 6.7 x 1.3 x 1.2 cm, right: 7.5 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm
- Donor name
- Mr. Iwasaki Takahiro
- Category
- Sculpture or Three-dimensional Work by Japanese Artist
- Inventory Number
- 2011-SJ-002
Peer through the telescope in the corridor and you can see steel towers located somewhere in the distance. They appear to have collected dust, as though they are located somewhere few people pass. This is Iwasaki Takahiro’s artwork, and the small towers are actually made from his own hair. Yonomori Line is the name of the transmission line that was supposed to send electricity to cool the nuclear power plant in Fukushima after the emergency shutdown caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in 2011. The tower in the middle is the Yonomori Line’s No. 27 steel tower, which collapsed after the quake, eventually making the reactor became uncontrollable. The work encourages reflection on the existence of things in dusty out-of-the-way places that are actually critical to our livelihood.
(KIMURA Eriko)