{"id":3030,"date":"2017-03-24T13:55:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T04:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mat-nagoya.jp\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2020-06-08T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T10:11:00","slug":"%e4%b8%b9%e7%be%bd%e8%89%af%e5%be%b3%e3%80%8c%e5%90%8d%e5%89%8d%e3%81%ab%e5%8f%8d%e5%af%be%e3%80%8d%e6%96%b0%e8%a6%8b%e6%b0%b8%e6%b2%bb%ef%bc%88%e3%83%91%e3%83%ab%e3%83%ab%e9%81%8b%e5%96%b6%e3%83%a1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mat-nagoya.jp\/en\/document\/3030.html","title":{"rendered":"Review | Eiji Shimmi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\u4e39\u7fbd\u826f\u5fb3\u300c\u540d\u524d\u306b\u53cd\u5bfe\u300d\"<\/a><\/p>\n

– And when the air was clear and he could speak again she taught him the true name of the falcon, to which the falcon must come.
\n\uff08A Wizard of Earthsea, Earthsea Cycle, #1)<\/p>\n

Niwa is struggling again. He always gets messed up and struggles after blindly rushing into something that drew his attention. Clumsy indeed, but that\u2019s who he is.
\nHe struggles so hard again in the project Selling the rights to name a pile of garbage that he even says it would \u201cbe of benefit to the community\u201d. Referring to \u201chow effective art could be\u201d is such a sensitive and dangerous thing to do, especially when it\u2019s told from the artist\u2019s side – as to revealing inside stories could ruin the system of art- but he shows it all in the work. It surely was thrilling and made a vivid impression on my mind first.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go back to the title \u201cAgainst Name\u201d- it doesn\u2019t tell who is against what about name. If I were against something, it would be the massive power that a name could possess.
\nAs it was written on the handout by the artist available in the gallery, in terms of living in the modern controlled society, when something is unnamed it doesn\u2019t exist in the social context.<\/p>\n

Steven Pinker describes the impact of knowing a name in his book \u201cThe Language Instinct\u201d, by referring to an encounter between Schaller, a sign language interpreter and Ildefonso, a 27 year-old deaf man who had never been taught any languages. \u201cIn an epiphany reminiscent of the story of Helen Keller, Ildefonso grasped the principle of naming when Schaller tried to teach him the sign for \u2018cat\u2019. A dam burst, and he demanded to be shown all the signs for all the objects he was familiar with. Soon he was able to convey Schaller a part of his life story.\u201d<\/p>\n

How did we all start naming things originally? Let\u2019s just imagine ancient people- under calm weather and wealthy food supply, it wouldn\u2019t have been necessary to name things in details. When you are desperate to survive, suffering from hunger in cold weather, you need to work on a target with a group of people, perhaps moaning to each other trying to express \u201cme\u201d \u201cyou\u201d \u201cthere\u201d \u201chere\u201d to begin with. Once something gets named, everything gets named one after another to become sentences, to become language eventually.
\nWe have invented uncountable names up until the present day. Names produced numerous systems such as wars, politics, money, and of course art is one of them.
\nIt seems to me that Niwa keeps struggling in those various gigantic systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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