2020: A RESTROOM CULTURALITY

2020: A RESTROOM CULTURALITY
2020 © Isidora Fićović and Daichi Misawa
Installed in New Belgrade, April 2020

A restroom for visitors to reflect upon a cultural boundlessness, or culturality, of restrooms in the
past, present and future, which comprises Gestural Rhythm of Dot recording a time dimension
of a process of movements in painting, and a musical sound of circulator that may reflect the
sound of present culturality in a place of installment. Material: toilet paper, painting or drawing materials (water color), environmental sound, real-time computer processing.

When technological impact on society takes its role, might be a time for artists to play their role.
Art, to us, does not seem to be something that only tolerates a specific ‘beauty.’ Things that are
‘ugly’ might be actually where humanity is. To be specific, restrooms such as Japanese one—whoa,
it’s a space of traditional hospitality, having within touch sensors for flash, toilet seat heats,
incredible softness of toilet paper, even a sound of nature—are considered here to be a site for
carrying out another artistic investigation.

Concept of the artwork generally relates to an idea of presenting a design of restroom as a
demonstration of restroom culturality. Based on said concept, the artwork comprises: 1) ‘Gestural
Rhythm of Dot’ recording a time dimension of a process of movements in painting, of yellow
color symbolizing suns’ movement and of blue color rivers’; and 2) a musical sound of circulator
that is synthesized with environmental sound reflecting the sound of present culturality in the
place of installation. As a result, the artwork presents another view on restroom design, and also
we hope it gives us a chance to reflect upon or test the notion, movement and music concerning
restroom in the past, present and future, a moment of relief contemplating the boundlessness of
the resting place.

2020 © Isidora Fićović and Daichi Misawa