This is a video installation made for the exhibition “Journey to the West” held in January 2012 in New Delhi, where a group of curators invited 6 Japanese artists to commission a work to be made around the relationship between Japan and India.

In this framework of the exhibition, I decided to use a controversial book in the modern Japanese history, the Judgement of Justice Radhabinod Pal, as a material of my experiment. I constructed a performance combining the paradoxical context of this book with monstrous representation of Indian gods.

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The central performer had to read the Judgement of Pal as seriously as possible, while other two on the sides had to make a comedy out of the situation as hard as possible. They did 7 hours of performance, and I edited it down to half an hour, and made an installation using the props from theperformance.