Yuki Harada
Odate Bldg 
1F: Waiting for / 5F: Home Port
1st Floor
This is a CG animation/narration performance work created using CGI technology used in game productions. The three spaces created in the image of Earth one million years ago/after spans endlessly like an open world game, where a virtual camera wanders aimlessly through them. What you are hearing is the artist reciting the names of every animal that exists on earth for 33 hours and 19 minutes.
5th Floor
Lahaina became the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii in the 19th century, and it flourished as a “sacred place for marine art” during the boom of the tourism industry after the war. However, it was destroyed by a fire in August 2023. This work is a landscape art of this historical place. The exhibition venue, the Odate Building, located in the Nagisa district was also severely damaged by the Atami fire in 1950. Harada, who was conducting research focused on Lahaina, created this work while envisioning Lahaina in the distant future.
Born in 1989. Artist Harada creates works that are based on insignifant and yet widely recognized visuals in society. He started visiting Hawaii regularly from 2019, focusing on transnational cultural motifs, such as “Pidgin English.” In recent years, he held solo exhibitions at the Museum of Japanese Emigration to Hawaii, KAAT Kanagawa Arts Center, Kyoto Art Center, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa and others. His forthcoming books include Toruni taranai bijyutu (Insignificant arts) published by Kenele Books.
