京都芸術大学 × 京都市立芸術大学

KUA × KCUA

Unclaimed Voices
Kyoto University of the Arts / Kyoto City University of Arts

John Miura / Sayaka Nakamura
Kota Kubo / Rain Takahashi
Hiyo Morita / Sennosuke Tanaka

We often speak about individuals through affiliations and attributes such as gender, nationality, or generation. These frameworks serve as clues for understanding a person, but at the same time they place that person within a certain fixed “narrative.” Yet unless we look up at the hands by which such narratives have been rewritten, and at what has been discarded along the way, we risk understanding reality only through scripts that have already been prepared for us.
A single reality always contains multiple narratives. What art has pointed toward may be a technique for sensing the subtle inclinations produced by their differences, and for walking along paths that have not yet been named.
In this exhibition, two participants from each university come together and allow the process of making to unfold through “speaking with one another,” or through the very difficulty of speaking. Taking even this instability as a kind of bright footing, the exhibition opens its eyes to a language of friendship that allows us to continue engaging with others.