Het Plafond; a space for the arts and for culture in the home of Willem Besselink and Guus Vreeburg
Gedempte Zalmhaven 761, 3011 BT Rotterdam / NL

Yukihiro Taguchi
'Bücher Domino' / 'Domino of Books'
November 4 - December 2 2006

informatie in het Nederlands
Information auf Deutsch

Photos of the installation
Yukihiro Taguchi's blog on 'Bücher Domino'
Yukihiro Taguchi in exhibition 'Speed Up Your Life' (Hamburg)

Yukihiro Taguchi. Sketch proposal 'Bücher Domino'
for Het Plafond, Rotterdam; October 2006
© Yukihiro Taguchi, Berlin/D; 2006

Yukihiro Taguchi presents the project 'Bücher Domino' / Domino of Books

• the installation 'Bücher Domino' / Domino of Books: a sculpture made out wooden planks winding through Het Plafond's space and carrying a large number of books positioned as dominoes; the books being taken from the library of Het Plafond’s Willem Besselink and Guus Vreeburg
  
• the action 'Vorlesen' / Reading Out Loud on Saturday November 4th, 2006 as part of the opening of the presentation (starting from 8.30 PM): Yukihiro Taguchi invited Guus Vreeburg to read aloud from his very first book and from the book he’s reading at the moment; visitors are invited to do the same (bring your books!); these reading sessions will be recorded and added to the installation; afterwards they shall be inserted in the internet.

Take a look at Het Plafond
Het Plafond has no regular opening hours, but opens up to the sidewalk at Gedempte Zalmhaven through a huge window. The installation ‘Bücher Domino’ / Domino of Books will thus be visible and audible day and night.

Yukihiro Taguchi
1980	born in Osaka/Japan
2004	finishes BA in ‘Oil Painting’ from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
2004	participant of the summer-project ‘Living Room; SICE / Sarajevo International
	Cultural Exchange, Sarajevo / Bosnia & Herzegovina
2005	participant of the summer-project ‘Re_Cultivation’; SICE / Sarajevo International
	Cultural Exchange; Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
2006	videowork 'Gift' in the exhibition ‘Dots and commas'; Pictura, Dordrecht / NL
	Field work 'Pumpen'; Galerie RS 21, Berlin / Germany

Yukihiro Taguchi lives and works in Berlin / Germany
info: spazieren.exblog.jp/i4

Domino of Books

Yukihiro Taguchi, born and bred in Japan but living in Berlin since a year and a half, makes performances and installations. Most of them are self-related, all of them are site specific. In his works Taguchi aims for border situations in his own life. In the series ‘Zimmer umräumen’ [‘moving round’] that he did from January through May 2006, he regularly turned his apartment topsy-turvy by repositioning all furniture and other items in it; he registered each new constellation by a panoramic montage of photo’s he took from high up in a corner.
In May 2006 he showed a video registration in the Pictura-gallery in Dordrecht / NL of a performance in the Görlitzer Park in Berlin: he was walking around with a transparent plastic bag tied around his head, inviting passers by - using texts in a notebook he showed them - to provide him with new air by blowing into tubes attached to the bag; ‘Please give me air’. The performance was called ‘Gift’, an indication of the work’s sardonic twist: in German, ‘Gift’ means ‘poison’. The video mercilessly showed how most people simply ignored the artist, leaving him to suffocate’ A metaphor for an artist’s existence?


With his installation ‘Domino of Books’ for Het Plafond Taguchi works site specifically in a double sense of the word. He is fascinated by the large collection of books of Guus Vreeburg, an art historian, and Willem Besselink, a visual artist. Their study is in the same room as Het Plafond’s exhibition space. This library is a mental construct that took long years to compile. The thoughts and ideas contained in books may be fragile, but can evoke experiences that last a lifetime. And even longer still: ideas formulated in one book often generate new books. A solid but vulnerable maze. Taguchi’s installation will also be site specific in a purely spatial way, exploiting the ‘ceiling’ from which Het Plafond derives its name: Taguchi will build a domino track for a large number of books that winds its way high over our heads, just under the ceiling.
Taguchi is interested as well in just what we read: he invites both us and you to read to him aloud from our very first book, and from the book we’re reading at the moment. He will record these fragments and weave them into his ‘Domino of Books’; thus he makes our fascinations both visible and audible.

© Guus Vreeburg / Het Plafond, Rotterdam; 061020

Contact & information
digital imagery available on demand

Willem Besselink	+31 6 19 4343 41
Guus Vreeburg	+31 6 4720 4750