t0mas : Tianjin Kyofusho
2008-08-12
Tianjin Kyofusho : A video piece based on the supposedly culturally specific Japanese phobia of uncontrollable social harm.
Tianjin Kyofusho is a paranoid belief that the sufferer may be unable to stop themselves causing harm to others. Thought to come about through the imposition of social structures on free-thinking individuals, tianjin kyofusho manifests itself as compulsive behaviour designed to prevent the sufferer from coming into close contact with other humans, with the sole purpose of preventing others from experiencing harm as a result of the sufferer’s own violence.
The extracts are named thus:
1. Rue le Mind
2. Cristo de cerdo
3. In the Knife Garden
4. Passage du Livre du vent
5. Jesus nass meine Lippen mit Kuchen
6. Singe Fister
7. Ossuary
8. The boy I would kill
9. Culo Niña en el Campo
10. Schweiß Passage
11. Homage to Bunuel
12. Tianjin Kyofusho