Bubble/Debris: Art of the Heisei Period

Bubble/Debris: Art of the Heisei Period 1989-2019
Noi Sawaragi and Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art (Eds.)

254 mm x 183 mm
232 pages
JPY3,182
ISBN 9784790717515
Pub date: Feburary 2021
Language: Japanese/English

In an age of economic collapse, earthquakes, and terrorism ... when everything can disappear into scum bubbles on the surface of river, art has become not the work of individuals, but the collective activity of artists who have come together and scattered. Dense and decentralized aggregates of practice (formerly known as “art work”), left debris in their wake. This full-color publication features over 200 photographs of 70 major works by 14 representative groups and collectives of the Heisei era.  

Table of Contents
Foreword

Part I, in Three Chapters

Chapter 1: The Bubble Age
1989-2001/Heisei 1-13
　Complesso Plastico
　IDEAL COPY
　TECHNOCRAT
　DIVINA COMMEDIA

Chapter 2: From Bubbles to Debris
2001-2011/Heisei 13-23
　GEISAI
　Chim↑Pom
　Contact Gonzo
　Is Tohoku-ga possible?
　DOMMUNE
　Chaos*Lounge

Chapter 3: The Age of Debris
2011-2019/Heisei 23-31
　Parplume
　Suddenly, the view spreads out before us
　Kushino Terrace
　Kokufu Osamu’s Engine in the Water re-creation project
　Artificial Intelligence Art and Aesthetics Research Group

Part II, an Introduction and Three Essays

　Bubbles/Debris: Art of the Heisei Period 1989-2019 　　Sawaragi Noi
　The National Culture of an Era That Was Likely the Last to Experience a Sense of Unity in　Accordance with the Japanese Imperial Era System 　　Akasaka Mari
　Nothing Much Has Changed 　　Tateiwa Shinya

　1989: The Terrible Dawn of Heisei―― The beginning of an era that started peacefully before disappearing like a wave of bubbly froth, and crumbling like a pile of debris 　　Katayama Morihide

A Short History of Heisei(1989-2019) Bubbles/Debris
List of Works

　You can see the movie: https://youtu.be/d6DHufOPeZk?si=OBnFs0Di05o1_GFp


A book cover that fades away like bubbles


The cover is doubl-foleded.


The photos appear on the flap of the cover and on its reverse side.

The cover unfolds to reveal 15 photographs featuring the latest works of 14 artists.


It can be cut out neatly along the perforation lines. When cut out, it becomes 15 postcards.

The book is completed only when the cards are pasted into the designated pages. Readers also participate in the collective activity of making the book.


The cover was chopped up and disappeared.

The postcards that have become debris will beaffixed to the book, where they will remain forever.

The book design embodies the theme of this book, “An era in which everything can disappear like bubbles and become debris.”