Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

It consists of a video footage of a socializing event for people and their dogs in the central park in New York City and the voice over. The event includes activities such as the Best in Park dog show, games, contests, and agility tests, etc. The voice over is not directly related to the event itself, but written based on a conversation between two artists dealing with photography. The artists have photographed hunting scene, and they are looking at their pictures of dead animals. This work investigates how we relate to animal, and questions our industrialized world surrounded by animal imagery.

Born in Japan and based in the Netherlands since 1994, Mayumi graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Acadmy in 1999. She is an alumna of residency programs such as Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (2000-2001), Location One in New York (2005-2006). Exhibitions/presentations include: Jamaica Center for Arts and learning in NY, Macy Art Gallery Colombia University New York/Art Basel Miami Verge Fair, Kunstpavilion Zagreb Croatia, Stedelijk Modern Art Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands Institute for Media Art, and Viper International Film Video and New Media Festival, Basel. She has received awards and grants including the Japanese government overseas study program, Fonds bkvb NL, Rene Coelho Prize from Netherlands Institute for Media Art Amsterdam, among others.