Marie Julia Bollansée © 2023
video 6’53”
joint performance
at Koga City Museum of History, Koga, Ibaraki, Japan
on November 4 2023 from 2pm until 4.30pm
In 境界を越えて 歴史性との対話 “Beyond Boundaries, Dialogue with Historicity”
Mit Hendrickx, knitworks
HIROYUKI Masuda, camera
Koga City Museum of History, photographs
Marie Julia Bollansée, concept, performance, video-editing
thanks to
TATEISHI Takayuki, director of Koga City Museum of History
KANEDA Takuya, curating the show
SUZUKI Masae and Setsu, founders of STUDIO8 where I was a guest
YAMAKA Noriko, STUDIO8 staff
KOGA Rieko
FUJII Sayuri
Huis BRISÉ, workwear
ROMBAUT, footwear
Volunteers from Yachiyo: Enomoto, Hirama, Tanaka, Suwa, Akiyama, Shibamori, Nakayama, Kyoko, Yosuke, Ryouta and Sojiro
The ancient labyrinth in the Chartres Cathedral leads you inside along a single path.
The labyrinth I create here in Koga is one with many paths. There are paths that connect islands, paths that cross, a path along a ravine and there are paths that are dead ends.
You have to make choices as you walk through this labyrinth, which path do you take?
You will meet other people in this labyrinth. You can stay with them on a blue island.
When you walk the paths, who goes first? Who gives priority to the other person?
My mother helped me build this labyrinth. She knitted the paths in the sheep’s wool I spun. I lay twelve paths between four blue tarpaulin islands. And then I invite you to join the performance. I invite you to walk the paths of the labyrinth and/or stay for a while on the blue islands. You can stay in the labyrinth for as long or short a time as you like.
I ask you to go barefoot through the labyrinth.