Shota Shimura
Mobile Literature Atami Nightfall Elegy
The ‘Mobile Literature’ series aims to combine bicycle-based movement and projection technology with literary expression. It is a series of works in which novels themed around each city are depicted onto the urban canvas using a bicycle converted into a video device. In this specific piece, ‘Mobile Literature: Atami Nightfall Elegy,’ the artist has written a novelsset in Atami, which is then converted into video format. The installation artwork showcases the artist cycling through the streets of Atami at night while projecting the text onto the ground.
In Cooperation by : Masayuki Akamatsu, Masaru Tainaka, Daigo Sakane, Ryo Nishisaka
Born in Kawasaki, Kanagawa prefecture to a dry cleaner family in 1993. After travelling around the world and working in business development, Shimura is currently enrolled in the PhD programme at IAMAS (Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences). He started creating the ‘Mobile Literature’ series when he moved to Ogaki in Gifu prefecture, where the Japanese poet Matsuo Basho had conclueded his journey of the ‘Oku no Hosomichi’ (The Narrow Road to the Deep North) . Following Basho’s will, he aspires to present his work in cities around the world. Major exhibitions in recent years include Roppongi Art Night 2023: Urban Life Encyclopedia.
