Headgear (Kaburi-mono 被り物) for “Glöckler” performance made from an antique Hyakunin Isshu (百人一首) print, a classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets. Clothing as architecture for the body. To be presented at the birthplace of the local tradition of “Glöckler” the cap combines Eastern and Western elements in a new manner. Therefor it illustrates the Japanese tradition of paper-models and constructions to be carried at matsuri festivities.
Based on the Glöckler tradition, I was able to make such sculptures out of paper for the first time in Japan in 2023. In Nakanojo for the Biennale, I took the opportunity to create seven sculptures that showed a connection between the two cultures with the possibilities of Japanese materials and craftsmanship.
These sculptures are wearable paper dwellings that represent a link between clothing and architecture. They create distance and symbolic protection and become spatial costumes in motion. The Nakanojo Biennale was the perfect place to realise such an extensive project for the first time and also gave me the opportunity to present the sculptures to the Japanese public in a performative way.