Kigo

„That day, Frankfurt‘s skyscrapers looked like the tower of Babel. Each building reflected like a mirror in the sunlight. It was late summer and the air was warm; sometimes wind blew like a gentle shower. Many of us felt hat day we had lost our social identities, contexts, security and city. In the blue sky there was weid tense pressure and on the ground we were left with sadness and emptiness while many thousands of agonies were buried. Our life is supposed to be armed and protected by new high-technology; how easily it can be destroyed in a short space of time by destructive power. The answer seems to be trapped in a maze, there might be an exit or an entrance but each of us has to find them for ourselves. This book contains the background and idea of ‘Kigo‘ as well as its resources, thus alowing the reader to experience a short virtual trip to the exhibition which was made possible by a one year artist‘s fellowship from the Jürgen Ponto Stiftung, Frankfurt, Germany in 2000/2001. ‘Kigo‘ is a collection of different complex objects; 14 illuminated glass showcases with data structures, which tries to produce feelings, smells and memories with its visual, aural and interactive elements.# Synthetic pictures - like photographs and videos - are generated by computer and other digitally conserved materials and archived on a database. With other non-synthetic objects, 14 showcases unite to form a kind of diary in an interval of time and a number of sequences. Each showcase deals with on main topic; however, each individual topic (showcase) ralates to and influences the others simultaneously with the help of technology.“ (Chiho Hoshino)