2021 📍京都-大阪
前田耕平は2021年春に5年住んだ京都から大阪に引っ越しをした。京都桂川から、大阪の北加賀屋の船着場までを、前田の京都の家（北星寮)の畳を造作したイカダに乗って川下りをするパフォーマンスであり、もっと切実な”行為”だったかと思う。STAYHOMEな状況において移動することの精神的な困難さを、A地点からB地点へ引っ越しを行う一人の作家の行為を元に描き出した。映像は鑑賞者や引っ越しを応援しを祝いにきた人などに、岸辺からスマートフォン等で撮影され記録された。京都から大阪名村までの川の道のりだ。本畳にスタイロフォーム、木材の床、トラックのタイヤチューブを使用したイカダで、京都桂川（久我橋）から淀川の毛馬水門を南下し、大川～木津川の名村造船所跡地へと移動。オールはステンレスの棒に、木製のブレードを使用。計3泊4日。時速3km。乗船員の前田がIphone10sで撮影と配信を行った。また河岸より、スマートフォンによる撮影を並走車運転手と鑑賞者に行ってもらい映像提供してもらった。
映像（56分43秒）、筏
撮影：Yoshiro Masuda
Open Studio 2021 Spring
会期：2021年3月5日（金）– 21日（日）
会場：Super Studio Kitakagaya(SSK)
2021 📍Kyoto–Osaka
In the spring of 2021, Kohei Maeda moved from Kyoto, where he had lived for five years, to Osaka. This was a performance in which he travelled downstream from the Katsura River in Kyoto to the boat landing at Kitakagaya in Osaka on a raft constructed from the tatami mats of his Kyoto home (Hokusei-ryo); I believe it was a far more poignant ‘act’ than that. Drawing on the act of a single artist moving from point A to point B, the work depicted the psychological difficulty of moving during the ‘Stay Home’ period. The footage was recorded from the riverbank using smartphones and other devices by viewers and people who had come to support and celebrate the move. It captures the river journey from Kyoto to Namura in Osaka. The raft, constructed from traditional tatami mats, Styrofoam, wooden flooring and truck tyre tubes, travelled south from the Kuga Bridge on the Katsura River in Kyoto, passing through the Kema Lock on the Yodo River, and on to the former Namura Shipyard site at the confluence of the Okawa and Kizu Rivers. The oars consisted of stainless steel shafts with wooden blades. The journey took a total of three nights and four days, travelling at a speed of 3 km/h. Maeda, a member of the crew, filmed and streamed the journey using an iPhone 10s. In addition, footage was provided by drivers of accompanying vehicles and spectators who filmed from the riverbank using their smartphones.
Video (56 mins 43 secs), Raft
Filmed by: Yoshiro Masuda
Open Studio 2021 Spring
Dates: 5 March (Fri) – 21 March (Sun) 2021
Venue: Super Studio Kitakagaya (SSK)
