By: Lina Machida / Bass: Tiroru
“The Room for Street Speech” is a three-channel video installation by Lina Machida. Drawing on her own experience of loneliness rooted in a stutter, Machida conveys both the frustration of being unable to communicate and the raw impulse to keep trying - in a hand-drawn animation.
Fragments of Machida’s inner landscape appear and vanish one after another in a progression that is anything but smooth. The halting, uneven imagery, accompanied by inept speech and discordant sound, stirs unease while unfolding like a rite of passage from the depths of the self toward the outer world.
Lina Machida graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Department of Animation in March 2023. After the death of a family member, Machida Lina creates works on the theme of loss. In order to preserve the narrative of memory, she uses a variety of mediums, including animation, video, glass, light, and electronics. Her motifs are imaginary images of undeveloped film, disused game CPUs, poltergeists, and narratives themselves, as entities suspended on a line. She is currently developing a new piece to be premiered at the opening of the Festival of Animation Berlin in September, and another new piece to be shown at the underground air-raid shelter of The Terminal Kyoto.
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Part of “Being Alone - Artistic Perspectives from Central and East Asia and Beyond“, a project within “Solitude: Loneliness & Freedom,” an initiative of the Goethe-Institutes in East and Central Asia in cooperation with HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Curatorial contribution by Sumi Hayashi.
