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Japan Journal pt3- The Site of Reversible Destiny

After leaving the Aritmatsu Shibori Festival, we made up way back north-east via Nagoya to visit the incredible project - The Site of Reversible Destiny. 

‘Arakawa and Gins’ Site of Reversible Destiny—Yoro, is a created landscape containing a series of pavilions, undulating planes, shifting colors, and disorienting spaces that the artists presented to visitors as a place of purposeful experimentation. The work is part of the larger Yoro Park, located in Yoro, Gifu Prefecture, and opened to the public in 1995.

The first pavilion encountered is the Reversible Destiny Office (added later in 1997) that contains an uneven pastel colored maze and a ceiling that mirrors the design of the floor. The Critical Resemblance House is the next building in the park and also includes a maze with walls bisecting furniture and a map of Gifu Prefecture forming its roof. The Elliptical Field encompasses the rest of the park and is set in a concave basin in the foothills of the local mountains.

More pavilions (referred to as Architectural Fragments) are set in the terrain of the Elliptical Field and have names such as Exactitude Ridge, Trajectory Membrane Gate, Zone of Clearest Confusion, Mono no Aware Transformer, and Imaging Navel. Additionally, the Elliptical Field contains an intricate network of 148 paths and 5 maps of Japan placed at different scales throughout the landscape. The vegetation includes 24 different breeds of herbs selected by Arakawa and Gins to emphasize the changing of seasons.’ (Text taken from http://www.reversibledestiny.org )

Visiting the park became like entering a new world full of latent possibilities. Arakawa and Gins believed that changes in bodily perception would lead to changes in consciousness thus they developed architecture and environments to challenge the body as a way to "reverse our destinies." Arakawa and Gins’ wish was for visitors to explore the site like children and to reorient perceptions and discover the unlimited possibilities of the body.  

Sol exploring the site

The site requires an increased bodily awareness, an attention to terrain, and and unexpected forms that aim to sharpen the mind. The entire landscape acts upon you like a thought experiment in the potentiality of bodily perception, testing body and mind and interaction in a way that feels completely bizarre and challenging to how one is used to traversing a site. It was truly wonderful to visit this legacy to the visionary couple, for further reading they published a number of books including ‘Architectural Body’. 

Prepare to be astonished! 

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Issue Derrière le Miroir, 1982, Text by Madeleine Gins, illustrated with 1 lithograph in double page and 10 reproductions. Maeght Publisher, Paris.

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Early concept for Arakawa & Madeline Gins, at Columbia University 2018

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In Memory of Helen Keller Reversible Destiny Lofts Mitaka, Japan #HelenKeller #ReversibleDestiny #MadelineGins #ShusakuArakawa #ArakawaAndGins #ReversibleDestinyFoundation #Mitaka #Japan 

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Arakawa Shusako (engraving) in Madeline Gins, Intend, 1973, in « Tau/ma» 5, Founded and directed by Mauro Diacono and Claudio Parmiggiani, Translation by Alma Davanzo, Published by Achille Maramotti, Firenze, 1978.

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Arakawa Shusako and Gins Madeline, Hard or Soft No. 3, 1969. [Reversible Destiny Foundation, New York, NY]

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Arakawa Shusako, Diagrams for the Imagination, Published by Gagosian and Designed by Goto Design, New York, 2019.

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Arakawa, Texture of Time, 1977, acrylic, pencil, and art marker on canvas, 66 × 100 inches (167.64 × 254 cm)

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Arakawa Shusako, Untitled (Stolen), 1969. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, Gift of “The Thieves”: Gregory, Landis, Lewis, Crane, and Kahn. Photo: Allen Phillips/Wadsworth Atheneum.

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Arakawa and Madeline Gins; Eternal Gradient, exhibition brand & collateral, Columbia GSAPP, with Eline Mul

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