Urban Rocks
“What is the time of an object? A rock released from the earth’s crust finds its way to a city street. Laying there it seems out of time, pushing against the flow and rush of people and things with its precarious stillness.”
Location:
1080 HD Movie (5mins, 51seconds)
Yotsuya, Shinjuku, Tokyo
35°41'15.9"N 139°43'10.8"E
Joel Vivian Kirkham is an artist, art educator at Temple University, Japan Campus and co-founder / director of Goya Curtain, an artist-run project space based in Tokyo. He is originally from Auckland, New Zealand and has lived and worked in Tokyo since 2010. His multi-disciplinary art practice takes everyday life as a departure point to explore more abstract concepts of time, progress, and change. Wrangling with various states of impermanence, Kirkham’s art seeks to evoke the precarious psychology associated with articulating the present moment.