About the project:
Create the image of contemporary Kappa based on the collected information of Kappa experiences. Those information includes the report of Kappa witnesses, the drawings of the witnesses, relic of Kappa, or even the person who is called “Kappa”. They are morphed and visualized into one image of Kappa. The project mainly consists of the video and sculpture. It refers to the methodology of the studies such as “Hearing about Kappa” (ca 1805) “Suiko-Koryaku” (1820) and applies them in the current context. (22 Nov.2007)

Project Title：
KAPPA COMPLEX

Video (Documentary)：
“Gendai Kappa Kiki-Awase; Hearing about Kappa”   >>>image
105 minutes, DVD

Video (Morphing):
Sketches for Kappa Complex   >>>image
3minutes 53 seconds, DVD

Sculpture:
Kappa Complex A (Head)
    Color on plaster, plastic pool, water and mud
    58×55×41cm (head), 220×220×40cm (pool)
Kappa Complex B
    Wet Suit, color on clay, Japanese silver grass, weeds, and soil
    130×80×306cm
Kappa Complex C (1x1)
    Color on plaster, mud
    90×80×130cm

Exhibition Title:
“Kappa wa Umi no Muko: Kappa far beyond the sea”
2007
Installation
The works in the above, pictures, sketches and drawings, fabrics, cardboard, projector, plastic pool mud, water, carp, Japanese silver grass
Arcus studio, Moriya, Ibaraki, Japan

http://www.arcus-project.com/