When I wish upon a star

2004, Video installation, 2:22 min. material contribution: Kenji Karasaki

In "When I wish upon a star" Yamashita and Kobayashi prolonged a videotaped image of a real shooting star, whose duration is originally less than a second, into about two minutes in order to make it long enough for all of Yamashita's wishes upon the shooting star.
Presenting this obviously childish act of tampering, they try to redraw the shape of human desires.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS (*)

2020 Art Gallery NSW, Sydney

2016 Art Gallery NSW, Sydney

2015 Kurumaya Museum of Art, Oyama, Tochigi (solo)

2010 Roppongi Art Night, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo *

2008 STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium

2007 Nightcomers, 10th Istanbul Biennial,Turkey *

Videonale11, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany *

Tate Modern,London *

2006 Lichtrouten Lüdenscheid, Germany

Victoria & Albert Museum, London *

transmediale.06, Berlin *

2004 Hiromi Yoshii Five, Tokyo