This project is an attempt to create new access point to feeling and understanding the amplitude of inhumane violence that took place right here under our feet. To this day many remains of the victims are buried under our feet. By listening to the invisible voices, that is painted directly on the ground, perhaps each one of us can bring alive, even fragments of the memories of many people whose lives ended 75 years ago by a violent consequences of war. The project was developed in partnership with University of Applied Science in Düsseldorf with the support of City of Nagasaki. The [AR Sculpture] as part of the app was created by Shinpei Takeda within VR. (Photos are from the archival footage from U.S. National Archive)
The “voice” you hear is from the series of interviews conducted by the artist between 2005 to 2019 with Nagasaki survivors of the atomic bomb who have emigrated to USA, Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina and Brasil. For a longer interviews of the survivors who have emigrated to north and south Americas, please visit www.hiroshima-nagasaki.com
Shinpei Takeda (1978, Osaka JApan) is an artist and filmmaker based in Mexico and Germany. Through wide range of medium, his work circulates around (anti) monumentality of memories in space and time evident in his various projects such as "Hiroshima Nagasaki Download", "Alpha Decay" and "Antimonument". He has also been collecting interviews of atomic bomb survivors living oversea since 2005. For more information regarding the Artist, follow www.shinpeitakeda.com
Jana Borchardt, Aylin Cin, Nader El Masry, Kateryna Halatsiuk, Jens Herder, Marcos Martenka, Rintaro Saga, Emre Yalcinkaya
"Mixed Reality Art Experiments - Immersive Access to Collective Memories", Jens Herder, Shinpei Takeda, Kai Vermeegen, Till Davin, Dominique Berners, Bektur Ryskeldiev, Christian Zimmer, Ivana Druzetic, and Christian Geiger), ISEA2019, Proceedings, 25th International Symposium on Electronic Art, pp. 334-341, Gwangju, South Korea, June 22-28, 2019.
Organized by: Nagasaki atomic Bomb survivors Council
Supported by: University of Applied Science Düsseldorf Prof. Jens Herder (https://vsvr.medien.hs-duesseldorf.de/herder-bio.html.en), Eyes Japan (www.nowhere.co.jp), Nagasaki Prefecture Art Museum, HafH, Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, Nagasaki University, Antimonument e.V.(www.antimonument.de), ASUS Germany, EXPART