MARIE JULIA BOLLANSÉE
MARIE JULIA
BOLLANSÉE

TABI

videoperformance, 2021
1’41”
‘to the Absent Audience’
2 photographs, lambdaprint between plexi, 2021

with white cotton tabi in blue paper bag from ‘Okano’ Tokyo
boulder from Tokyo, blue tarpaulin from Mumbai India, iron+glass frame and white bodypaint
AIR 3331/ 3331 Arts Chiyoda, providing residence to the artist in Japan (October 2019)
Marie Julia Bollansee, concept, performance, camera, bodypaint, edit, sound, photograph

Strolled around Ginza in Tokyo, payed a visit to the house of Shiseido, walked in the Ginza Six mall…. At the Maison Margiela store I noticed that Martin Margiela’s tabi-boots are available for men too now, after being women’s exclusive for more than 25 years. What a joy this is! A little further I bought this pair of white traditional Japanese tabi, the blueprint for Margiela’s tabi, at ‘Okano’ store, masters in kimono-manufacture since 1897.
Walked back from the ‘blue sheet homeless camp’ near Yoyogi Parc and came across this boulder-menhir on my way to my room in Akihabara.

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