MUR 004 + CHARLOTTE HAYWOOD / EDWARD HORNE + HUMUS
オーストラリア、ニューサウスウェールズ州北部のバンドジャルンカントリー出身の地域アーティスト、シャーロット・ヘイウッドとエドワード・ホーンによって実現した魅力的な試み、HUMUSを紹介します。彼らのプロジェクトは、インスタレーション、パブリックアート、実験的建築、没入型シアターデザイン、サイトスペシフィックスカルプチャー、コミュニティエンゲージメント、ビデオ、サウンド、テキスタイル、教育学など様々なメディアを軽々と横断し、学際芸術の領域を掘り下げています。石垣島では、バイオミミクリー、エコ美学、マルチナラティブ、互恵性の探求に深く根ざしたクリエイティブなコラボレーションを展開しています。マ・ウミ・レジデンシーでは、織物職人、大工、船大工、音楽家、その他の地元の職人たちと会話を交わし、洞察を深め、コラボレーションを行うために集まっています。彼らの芸術活動の中心は、多様な文化との交流と没入であり、文化的、政治的、生態学的な規範を批判的に検討しながら、その独自性を尊重することです。
During the residency, Joshua visited Ishigaki during Obon, a significant time in the island’s calendar when the boundaries between the living and the dead are understood to become porous. In the Yaeyama context, Obon is marked by distinctive ritual performances, dance, and music through which ancestors are welcomed, entertained, and sent back. Encountering these practices offered a lived framework for reflecting on ancestry not as a fixed lineage, but as a relational, performative presence—activated through gesture, sound, and collective memory.
At the closing presentation, Joshua shared his family tree and the history of his family, mapping genealogical lines alongside gaps and silences. Rather than a conclusive account, the presentation foregrounded uncertainty, revealing ancestry as an ongoing process of loss, remembering, and reconfiguration.
Joshua Serafin is an artist whose practice spans performance, choreography, moving image, and research-based inquiry. Their work engages with questions of ancestry, ritual, and embodiment, drawing on Indigenous cosmologies, speculative methodologies, and non-human ecologies. Through durational performances, film, and site-responsive research, Serafin examines how histories are transmitted, interrupted, or erased, and how ancestral knowledge persists through the body, landscape, and collective memory.
Serafin’s projects often emerge from long-term research processes that combine archival investigation, embodied practice, and collaboration. Attentive to places of transition—such as caves, shorelines, and ritual sites—their work foregrounds the permeability between human and non-human worlds, past and present. Through these inquiries, Serafin proposes alternative modes of knowing that resist linear history and emphasize relational, lived experience.