Bruce Yonemoto

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Bruce Yonemoto

Participating Project	Research Residency Program
Activity Based	United States
Period	2011.8 - 2011.8

Purpose of the residency

Although this project was proposed last year in an application for the Tokyo Wonder Site Residency, the recent tragic earthquake and tsunami in Japan makes my desire to complete my research and art production all the more urgent. Japan is now reeling from the destruction of life and belongings. In a respectful and helpful way I hope to "repair" personal broken treasures and familiar objects so that they may once again give joy and value to our daily lives.

Plan during the residency

In 1915 Marcel Duchamp created the first readymade, "an ordinary object elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the mere choice of an artist." [The Surrealists were] the first to perceive the revolutionary energies that appear in the 'outmoded,' in the first iron constructions, the first factory buildings, the earliest photos, the objects that have begun to be extinct, grand pianos, the dresses of five years ago, fashionable restaurants when the vogue has begun to ebb from them. I propose to extend Duchamp's allegorical procedure of redeeming common mass produced objects to include the Japanese practice of Kintsugi. I realize that Kintsugi was limited to the repair (or redemption) of valued unique collectible works of art. However, the idea of revaluing and once again elevating worthless broken objects into objects of desire is an interesting proposal.

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