* This article has been edited and reconstructed based on the report submitted to the Kawamura Foundation for the Promotion of Culture and Arts.
Outdoor Screening of Shadowing
[Application project]
Outdoor Screening of Shadowing
[Applicant]
Yuki Harada
[Subsidy] 400,000 yen
[Overview]
The work Shadowing examines the trajectories of people who migrated from Hiroshima and Yamaguchi, Japan, to Hawaii. The project was inspired by Harada’s encounter with a gravestone in an immigrant cemetery in Lahaina, Maui Island, which belonged to a person originally from Kuken-cho, Hiroshima, and the gravestone was positioned facing west, toward Hiroshima. This screening event took place at Shirashio Park in Kuken-cho, where a screen was installed facing east—toward Hawaii—and the Shadowing was presented as an outdoor screening. Because the screening took place in an open outdoor setting, locals living in Kuken-cho also witnessed the event.
[Held / Implemented / Announced]
The screening was held over two days. The venue setup was handled by Mutsumi Tomosada, while the documentary video was filmed by Shintaro Watanabe and Emi Fujita. The overall project was directed by Harada.
<Period> March 25–26, 2023
<Location> Shirashio Park (Kuken-cho, Hakushima, Naka-ku, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture)
<Number of participants> Approx. 30 people
[Outcome]
Approximately 30 local residents and 10 art professionals joined the screening event. While it was the first attempt to organize an outdoor screening, the project provided valuable knowledge and experience in carrying out an event in a public space through the process of obtaining the necessary permissions and completing the appropriate procedures in advance.
Harada explains the work Shadowing himself on his website: