一场知识的旅行

作品について
The NIJL Arts Initiative has been entrusted with the Agency for Cultural Affairs' “Strategic Project to Create Culture and the Arts,” aiming to share the classic literature accumulated at the National Institute of Japanese Literature and its network of experts beyond the research community. At the special exhibition “Opening Up a Bundle of Time,” WOW has created a video called “Journey of classic literature” that loosely connects to the power of classic literary knowledge.
■About the “Journey of classic literature”
The video is a 3D depiction of three works: “Tales of Ise,” “Guide to Famous Edo Sites,” and “Strange and Wonderful Sword Fittings” (all from the National Institute of Japanese Literature). The video shifts from Nara in the Heian period of the Tales of Ise into scenery from the Edo period. You move through the video in a first-person perspective, passing through spaces where various foreign patterns and designs float by. The theme of the video is a solo journey experiencing the knowledge scattered throughout each period and work.
■What is the NIJL Arts Initiative?
The NIJL Arts Initiative is a project started in October 2017 to open up classic literature (works written in Japan during and before the Meiji era) held at the National Institute of Japanese Literature and its accumulated knowledge of researchers to people outside of the research community. We aim to create new cultural value by having people from all walks of life freely interact with classic works of literature, which are a valuable cultural resource of Japan. “Artist in Residence (AIR)” and “Translator in Residence (TIR)” are programs to invite the world's leading artists and translators who are active in various fields to the institute and have them open up and explore classic works of literature with researchers and create new works based on the knowledge and feelings they gained from the experience.
文化庁の「戦略的芸術文化創造推進事業」を受託し、国文研で培ってきた古典籍の数々と専門家によるネットワークを、研究者コミュニティ外への開放を目指すプロジェクト 「ないじぇる芸術共創ラボ」。WOWは、特別展示「時の束を披（ひら）く）」にて、古典籍の知の力を緩やかにつなぐ映像作品「知の旅」を制作。
■作品「知の旅」について
「伊勢物語」「江都名所圖會」「裝劔奇賞」の三作品（すべて国文学研究資料館蔵）を映像で立体化。伊勢物語が誕生した平安時代の奈良から江戸時代の景色へと移り変わり、更に国外から伝わったさまざまな文様や図案の浮かぶ空間を一人称視点で通り抜けていくことで、各時代と作品に散りばめられた知に触れてゆく一人旅をテーマにした映像作品。
nijl.ac.jp/event/exhibition/2021/02/post-30.html
■「ないじぇる芸術共創ラボ」とは
国文学研究資料館に所蔵されている古典籍 （明治以前に日本でつくられた書物）と、館に集結する研究者の知見を、研究者コミュニティの外側へ開放すべく2017年10月に始まったプロジェクト。さまざまな立場の人に、日本の貴重な文化的資源である古典籍に自由な発想で触れてもらうことを通して、新たな文化的価値を生み出すことを目指す。多方面で活躍する世界屈指のアーティストと翻訳家を館に招き、研究者とともに古典籍をひらき、探求し、そこで得た知見や感覚をもとに新たな作品を創出する「アーティスト・イン・レジデンス（AIR)」「トランスレーター・イン・レジデンス（TIR)」を行っている。
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Staff
Creative Director : Kosuke Oho
Director : Takafumi Matsunaga
Visual Designer : Tomoko Ishii
Producer : Fumihito Anzai
Project Manager : Ryoma Yamashita
Music : Masato Hatanaka
Space Compose : JTQ Inc.