In 2018, I presented the solo exhibition Lost and Found in Košice, Slovakia. The exhibition focused on listening to what has been forgotten, excluded or made difficult to perceive within history. It began with research on Milan Adamčiak, an experimental composer who was active in the 1960s, whose work was suppressed under the communist regime from the 1970s onward and later rediscovered. Alongside this research, I incorporated traces of my own stay in Slovakia, creating an exhibition from materials that might otherwise be considered insignificant or without value.
After the exhibition, the works were supposed to be shipped back to Japan, but for unknown reasons they disappeared in transit. More than six years later, they remain missing. As the title suggests, they may still be lying somewhere in an unnamed lost-and-found office.
Lost Lost and Found Found returns to this earlier exhibition through the few remaining records, taking the disappearance of the works themselves as part of the project. Rather than simply reconstructing what was lost, the exhibition reactivates and transforms the work from a new perspective. When records that once traced forgotten things have themselves become forgotten, what other voices or events can we hear in the faint traces that remain?
2018年、スロバキア・コシツェ市で個展「Lost and Found（遺失物取扱い所）」を開催した。テーマは、歴史のなかで忘れ去られ、排除され、見えにくくなったものに耳を傾けること。60年代に実験音楽家として活動しながら、70年代以降の共産主義体制下で活動を封じられ、後年になって再発見された作曲家ミラン・アダムチェク（Milan Adamčiak）。彼に関するリサーチを起点に、自身のスロバキア滞在の記録を重ね合わせ、価値のないものとされる「素材」による展示を試みた。 展示終了後、作品群は日本へ郵送される予定だったが、何らかの理由で行方不明となり、6年以上が経過している。タイトルが示すように、それらは今もどこか、名もなき「遺失物取扱い所」に眠り続けているのかもしれない。本展「Lost Lost and Found Found」では、当時のわずかな記録をもとに、失われたという出来事そのものを引き受けながら、新たな視点から作品を変奏し、現在に再び立ち上げる試みを行う。忘却を辿るはずだった記録が、いまや自ら「忘れられたもの」となったとき、私たちは、かすかに残された痕跡のなかに、どのような別の声、別の出来事を聴き取ることができるだろうか。
