21 July - 19 August 1990

22 September
Artist Talk: Seiko Mikami

Location: Tochoji Temple Auditorium P3 Alternative Museum, Tokyo

Seiko Mikami looked into 'the relationship between the human body and technology as the generative organs of the city' and visualized it in the form of art. She presented the relationship between iron and bone in 'New Formation of Decline', and networks and neurological systems in 'Bad Art for Bad People'. In reference to immune functions, she installed her work 'Super Clean Room' as an actual super clean room where you entered after taking an air shower and putting on an anti-dust suit.
In Pulse Beats, she asked the audience to participate with their pulses to visualize what was happening day and night in their autonomic nervous systems. Materials that she used for the installation such as computers and IC chips reminded us of the information war. It was her speculation on the relationship between organisms and the technology that copies them.
Exhibit: A mother hung in the centre of the gallery together with her child machines in opposition to 180 IC chip-equipped missiles that were set up on the floor to intercept them. The hearbeats of the audience were displayed as LED patterns and the missiles began to pulsate. The heavy low sound of heartbeats vibrated in the gallery. It revealed the war that is happening unconsciously within the autonomic nervous system.
Another work of Mikami's that referred to the immune system was exhibited in the sub gallery.

Organized by: P3 Alternative Museum, Tokyo