NOWHERELAND: The Paris Human Flesh Incident
Installation at Blindside ARI, 2009
Plastic food, CCTV spy cameras, monitors, video switcher, DVD video, furniture, photographs, vinyl, audio. Dimensions variable. Audio by Dan West. Sagawa/Hartevelt videography by Jessie Scott.
NOWHERELAND – the Paris Human Flesh Incident, is a cross-media installation exploring the story of Issei Sagawa, Japanese cannibal and minor celebrity.
NOWHERELAND combines video, installation, plastic food and surveillance technology in a sensory study of extreme East-West cultural displacement. NOWHERELAND transformed Gallery 2 of Blindside Artist Run Space into a Parisian bedsit, a re-imagined true crime scene of what the Japanese call Pari jinniku jiken or The Paris Human Flesh Incident.
Essay by Emma McRae (writer and curator).
Video documentation of installation at Blindside, 2009.
Nowhereland production still Eugenia Lim 2009
Nowhereland installation view Photo by Selina Ou 2009
Nowhereland installation view Photo by Selina Ou 2009
Installation detail Photo by Selina Ou 2009
Bookshelf installation view Photo by Selina Ou 2009
Installation detail Photo by Selina Ou 2009
Eiffel tower detail Photo by Selina Ou 2009
Suitcase detail Photo by Selina Ou 2009
Desk Installation view Photo by Selina Ou 2009
CCTV monitor detail Photo by Selina Ou 2009
Viewer and monitor Photo by Selina Ou 2009
Viewer on monitor detail Photo by Selina Ou
Bed view Photo by Selina Ou 2009
Spilled wine detail Photo by Selina Ou 2009