IPP (Inverse Perspective Project)
これは、
美術、思想、宗教、建築、詩歌、科学など、
多様な専門家が参加し、
＜風景＞と＜人間＞の相関関係を捉え直すことで、
自然や環境に対する近代的な固定概念を、
相対化しようとする試みです。
「風景の逆照射」
ここで言う＜風景＞とは、自然・環境・世界などと呼び変え可能なものの総称とします。それぞれの地域、時代条件の中で、人間がそれをどう眺め、どう関わろうと願望したかが文化の軌跡とさえ言えると私たちは考えます。
今現在も我々の思考の根幹に根付く西洋近代的ものの考え方は、1990年代半ば以降に起きた一連の出来事により、その更新を迫られています。人類にとって、壮年期ともいえる段階に足を踏み入れた今、このことを、＜人間＞が主体となって＜風景＞を眺める思考への依存とその限界への示唆として受け止めてみようと、このプロジェクトは始動しました。その後、3.11の大震災を経て、＜風景＞の中にしか生きられない私たちの姿を改めて知らされることとなりました。
ここでタイトルが示そうとしているのは、近代的思考ベクトルと異なる次元に立ち、＜人間＞と＜風景＞の相関関係を逆転させようとする思索であり、＜風景＞の中にしか生きられない私たちが謙虚さを取り戻すことへの意志でもあります。
遠く起源においては畏怖と尊敬の対象であった筈の＜風景＞の側から、その中の『偶然の滞在者』としての私たちの意識の所在とその身体感について改めて浮かび上がらせ、次世代の暮らしに繋がる新しい視座を探るきっかけとなればと思います。
IPP 実行委員会（林ケイタ／安喜万佐子）
Inverse Perspective Project (IPP) is an attempt at redefining the interrelationship between “landscape” and“ human beings.” Through the involvement of professionals and experts from a wide range of fields including art, philosophy, religion, architecture, poetry, and science, this project looks to achieve the goal of deconstructing modernist stereotypes and obtaining a relative point of view towards nature and the environment.
Inverse Perspective of Landscape
Here we refer to “landscape” as something that has a broad meaning and can be identified with nature, the environment, or the world, etc. It could even be argued that to know and identify how people in a certain region of the world at a certain time viewed the landscape and desired to deal with it under the given conditions provides us with a better understanding of their culture and its development.
A series of events which took place since the mid-1990s has forced us, Japanese, to review and renew our way of thinking based on the imported modernist culture of the West, which is firmly rooted inside us still in the present day. Now, in the age where human civilization has come to maturity, we have come to think of these events as pointing to our overdependence on the stereotypical subject-object relationship between human beings and the landscape, and its limitation. This project was launched with these thoughts in mind. Then, after its launch, we experienced the 3.11 earthquake and tsunami, which once again impressed on us that we can never escape from the landscape.
The title of our project, “inverse perspective,” implies our attempt at reversing the subject-object relationship between human beings and the landscape, as well as our will to regain humility, admitting and accepting the fact that we can never escape from the landscape. Back into the remote origin of human history, the landscape must have been a subject of awe, something to be respected. Within the landscape, we are nothing but “accidental sojourners.” Starting from this acknowledgement, we have tried to put ourselves in a relative standpoint and view human beings from there, to once again locate and identify our sense of physicality as well as our consciousness as accidental sojourners. We hope that all this will lead us to the starting line from where we can set on a journey to find a new insight into the future life of human beings.
IPP coordinators:www.ipp2011.org
