Recording In Progress
Archives Exhibition and Screenings: the center for remembering 3.11

Dates

February 20 (Fri) – March 18 (Wed), 2015 10:00–20:00
* Closed on February 26

Venue

South Lounge, Studio a and b, 7th Floor

 

On May 3rd, 2011, sendai mediatheque launched the center for remembering 3.11 (commonly known as recorder311) in order to collectively face and think about the enormous devastation caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake, and to start walking a long path towards reconstruction. It is a platform by which citizens, experts, artists and staff are encouraged to collaborate in autonomous recordings and disseminations that demonstrate processes of recovery and reconstruction. With or without techniques or previous experience in videomaking, each contributor has recorded fragments of the disaster as they saw them, in videos, photos, soundtracks and texts.
As we enter the fifth year after the disaster, we would like to present the fragmented images of the Great East Japan Earthquake, seen through records of the disaster contributed to recorder311.

 
 
 

【1】Before and up to 30 Days after the Disaster

 

Chronological records of communities and everyday lives, recorded from the perspectives of ordinary people.

 

Okada, Miyagino-ku, Sendai / Recorded in November 1999 / Contributor: Chikao Takahashi

 
 
 

【2】Photographs and Their Making / Re-codings from Same Perspectives

 

What the town and lives were like, before the disaster,
what sort of damage the disaster caused,
how things have changed since the disaster,
fixed-point photographs that record those elements are exhibited.

 

Some of Contributors:
the NPO 20th Century Archive Sendai, tsukurumura, N.P.O., Izuru Echigoya, Chikao Takahashi, Urban Design Works, N.P.O., Hiroyuki Kudo, "Omoide Piece (Pieces of Memories)" Project, Sendai Shichigo Shimin Center, Natsumi Seo

 

Arahama, Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai
Top: May 7, 2007 | Bottom: July 5, 2013 / Contributor: Hiroyuki Kudo

 
 
 

【3】Moving Images and Their Making

 

Screenings of moving images that show scenery of the coastal areas and recovery operations, along with works that filmed narrations about life before and after the disaster.

 

Contributors: Haruka Komori + Natsumi Seo, Ko Sakai + Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Keita Suzuo, Hiroyuki Takano, Hikaru Fujii

under the wave, on the ground / 2014 / Contributor: Haruka Komori + Natsumi Seo

 

Arahama, Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai / 2014 / Contributor: Hikaru Fujii

 
 
 

【4】Practices of Contextualizing in Archiving Activities / First Meals

 

What was the first meal you had after the disaster?Photos related to "meals" during the disaster—scenes from soup-run, shopping, dining table and so on—are exhibited.Look at those photos and let us know your own experience and what you are reminded of, by putting them on sticky notes.
 
Project conducted in collaboration with the NPO 20th Century Archive Sendai.

 

My First Meal / Contributor: Hironori Sato

 
 
 

【5】Practices of Utilization of Archiving Activities / Reference Room

 

Various recorded materials, donated to recorder311, are exhibited on DVDs, panels.

 

DVDs of recorder 311 videos / Photographer: Tsutomu Koiwa

 
 

Organized	sendai mediatheque
Planned	the center for remembering 3.11
Exhibition Planning	Takemi Watanabe
Spatial Design	Tomomi Kawamura
Exhibition Constructed	Fujiya Co., Ltd.
Exhibition Equipment Provided	TOHOKU KYORITZ Co., Ltd.
Design	homesickdesign（recorder311 Record /Activity Report Booklet）
Translation	Communa Translation Design, LLP
Supported	Participants and donors of the center for remembering 3.11, silent voice, TURNAROUND, Liz Maly
Collecting Photo Project conducted	the NPO 20th Century Archive Sendai

 
 
 
 

This exhibition is offered as a report on the activities of the center for remembering 3.11. The center's archiving activities have received enormous support, cooperation and contribution from those listed below, along with many others. We extend our deepest gratitude toward them.

 
 

 Contributors, donors and supporters of the center for remembering 3.11
 Kingdom of the Netherlands
 CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
 SONY CORPORATION
 Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts
 Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University
 NIKON CORPORATION