The Interpreter was created during the three month residency, co-commissioned by QUAD derby, Animate Projects and D-lab in 2015. 
How do you interpret information? At first glance a simple question, the idea of interpreting is feasible by applying your identity, memory and imagination. Personal narratives and memory assist us to comprehend the confronting matters and objects.
The Interpreter works not only as a single channel movie however also as an installation with 22 framed collage works and performance with a live reading of the tarot. Each illustration draws on the artist’s own insight of Derbyshire’s history and myths - spanning a myriad of symbolic imagery. The animation is revealing an intimate interpretation of stories between each card.
The set of tarot is for the audience to experience the multitude of possible interpretations. Use it as normal tarot card to read past, present and future. The idea is the audience can also shuffle, re-edit and interpret their own story. 
The work is asking the viewer if they can witness any subconscious stories between the frames.
Thanks to the beautiful archives and research collaboration of the Derby Museum, Derby Goal and the British Library.
情報をどう解釈するか?一見、素朴な疑問ですが、自分のアイデンティティや記憶、想像力を働かせることで、解釈することが可能になります。個人的な物語や記憶が、目の前にある事柄や物を理解する助けとなるのです。

The Interpreterは、1チャンネルの映像作品としてだけでなく、22枚のコラージュ作品を額装したインスタレーションや、タロットのライブリーディングを行うパフォーマンスとしても機能します。それぞれのイラストは、ダービーシャーの歴史と神話に関するアーティスト自身の洞察に基づき、無数の象徴的なイメージに及んでいます。アニメーションは、各カードの間にある物語を親密に解釈しています。

このタロットカードは、観客に様々な解釈の可能性を体験してもらうためのものです。通常のタロットカードとして使用し、過去、現在、未来を読み取ることができます。また、観客は自分自身の物語をシャッフルし、再編集し、解釈することができるというものです。

この作品は、観客がフレームの間に潜在的なストーリーを目撃することができるかどうかを問いかけているのです。

ダービー博物館、ダービー・ゴール、大英図書館の美しいアーカイブと研究協力に感謝します。

Solo and Group Exhibitions

ITONAMI DAISEN ART FESTIVAL, Tottori, Japan 2019
Regime of prediction, Gallery white elephant, Berlin, Germany 2018
Grotesque, Museum of 20th and 21st Century, St. Petersburg Art, Russia 2018
Noriko Okaku, Earth+ Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2017
The Reading with Midori Mitamura, Al Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2017
The Interpreter, QUAD, Derby, UK 2015

Selected Screenings

SKIP CITY D-Cinema International Film Festival, Japan 2017
Salon: Low Definition, UK 2017
Barcelona Creative Commons Film Festival, MACBA, Spain 2017
Kassel Dokfest, Germany 2016
Underwire Film Festival, UK 2016
Encounter Film Festival, UK 2016
International film Festival Oberhausen, Germany 2016
London International Animation Film Festival, UK 2015

Prize 
Honourable Mention, SKIP CITY D-Cinema International Film Festival, Japan 2017

Performance 
Invisibl Drums, Nordic and International Symposium of Spiritual Technologies within Creative Practice, 
Norway 2020
The Interpreter, ITONAMI DAISEN ART FESTIVAL, Tottori, Japan, Nov 3 2019
with Nissa Nishikawa, FEAST, London UK 2016
with Nissa Nishikawa, RELAPSE/FLUX, London/NY UK/USA 2016
with Teita Iwabuchi, The Reading, Al Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2016
with Imari Suganuma, The Interpreter, Earth+ gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2016
with Junya Ishi, Akihide Monna and Leo Dupleix, Camera Japan Festival, Rotterdam, Holland 2016
The Interpreter was created during the three month residency, co-commissioned by QUAD derby, Animate Projects and D-lab in 2015. 
22 x framed collage exhibited at Earth+ Gallery, Tokyo 2016
22 x framed collage exhibited at Earth+ Gallery, Tokyo 2016
22 x framed collage exhibited at AL Gallery, Tokyo 2016
22 x framed collage exhibited at AL Gallery, Tokyo 2016
An extract image from The Interpreter animation
An extract image from The Interpreter animation
An extract image from The Interpreter animation
An extract image from The Interpreter animation
An extract image from The Interpreter animation
An extract image from The Interpreter animation
An extract image from The Interpreter animation
An extract image from The Interpreter animation
A set of The Interpreter original Tarot card
A set of The Interpreter original Tarot card
A set of The Interpreter original Tarot card
A set of The Interpreter original Tarot card
Use of the tarot card for performance with Nissa Nishikawa at FEAST, Shoreditch Church, 28th Feb 2016
Use of the tarot card for performance with Nissa Nishikawa at FEAST, Shoreditch Church, 28th Feb 2016
The Interpreter Tarot card reading performance with Nissa Nishikawa at 3459, RELAPSE/FLUX, London NY 18 Aug 2016
The Interpreter Tarot card reading performance with Nissa Nishikawa at 3459, RELAPSE/FLUX, London NY 18 Aug 2016
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