Return on Invest: Nishiko
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In her studio in Billytown, Nishiko (1981) has removed all corners. During a long running project in Japan she repairs object that were destroyed during the recent disaster caused by the tsunami. These are two examples of the conceptual work for which Nishiko is known. Her projects and interactions can lead to videos, spatial installations or site-specific pieces. The medium is actually not the most important, but the idea with which the work is made.
Much of Nishiko's work leans towards pointlessness. Why count all the screws in a box? Why remove all the words you do not know from a book? They are exercises with which Nishiko emphasises the fragility of facts and confronts us with the fact that opinions, ideas, objects have no fixed definition or value in themselves. She shifts the value of things by means of her small actions in everyday life. No matter how spontaneous these interactions might seem, they are preceded by a lot of thought.
For Return on Invest Nishiko presents sound pieces that can be heard throughout the exhibition space. What we hear are sounds she accidentally recorded: in her backpack was a recording device that was turned on when she flew back from Japan to the Netherlands. From a 7 hour long recording we hear in-flight music, take off and finally flight: khooophpphhokobboophhhwwbfquoeidhoodjeuhoom
joophjoooobmyuuughoouchoookgggbdojuehoubw
bueeehmmmbmn...
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