I asked an actor to write a letter to his mother who had passed away.

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From the content of this letter, I wrote a script for a heart-warming scene, in which, a grown-up man calling his mother to invite her to go to a holiday together in one weekend. I asked the actor to perform this scene.

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When shooting the scene, instead of asking him to pretend as if he is talking to his mother on the phone, I asked him to call random Japanese companies found in business directories. He phoned more than 200 companies, and we collected the conversations of how all polite Japanese business people reacted.

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Using this material, I constructed an installation. I displayed the the original letter with the video. This work is commissioned by Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, for the solo exhibition, MAM Project 009: Meiro Koizumi. It is presented in numerous exhibitions including Liverpool Biennale 2010.

(installation photo: Mori Museum MAM Project 009: Meiro Koizumi, 2009)