Everything is Everything
2006-2007
8 channel DVDs, color, sound and many materials in daily
use and many materials from the museum
dimension variable
each DVDs are 00:01:31, 00:01:50, 00:01:20,00: 01:22, 00:01:34,
00:01:31, 00:01:19, 00:01:48.
re-Installation at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Born 1975, Tochigi, Japan. Tanaka shows his interest in the fleeting, instantaneous moments of our everyday lives, which are meticulously captured in his famous video installations. A series of events within the linear span of time; cause and effect, source and consequence, are at once given autonomy and independency as a single, self-sustaining event at the hands of Tanaka’s filming techniques. His meticulous attentiveness on seizing the banal, mundane moments, and transforming them into an essence of their own specificity is what is significant his works. The deliberate choice of filming the mundane is a reflection of his maintenance of the stance of film as separate from the artists’ mode of expressions; his works are not a reflection of his aesthetics, nor his intentions. Tanaka currently lives and works in Tokyo.

1975年生于日本枥木。田中功起对我们日常生活中短暂瞬间显示出了兴趣，在他的装置里也精心地体现了他的这种兴趣。线性跨度的时间里存在一系列事情：起因和影响，资源和结果，它们都被立刻被视为个体、独立的事件，借助田中功起的电影技术被赋予了自治性和独立性。细致入微地捕捉陈腐而平凡的瞬间并把它们转换成为自身特性的要素，这正是他的作品的标志。他主张电影应独立于艺术家众多表达方式，慎重地选择拍摄平凡的世界是对这种主张的反映；他的作品并非是他审美的反映，也不是他自己的意图。田中功起目前生活和工作在东京。