JAPAN ERECTION

JAPAN ERECTION

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 31, 2010

Runtime

0h 2m

Original Title

JAPAN ERECTION

Director

Fuyuhiko Takata

Description

In this video and performance, Takata wears a wig in the fashion of an ancient Japanese hairstyle and transforms himself into the character of Susano-o, a Shinto god who appears in the Japanese creation myth. The erection between his legs, is in the form of a Japan-shaped penis. The artist believed that the Japanese archipelago looked like male genitalia standing erect towards the Pacific Ocean. From this idea, he assembled his mythological image of creation and destruction.