Vacant/Editionは、Vacant が日々の営みをアーカイブしながら、新たに掲げる〈文化空間学 / Cultural Placeology〉について思考を深めていくための出版プロジェクトです。場における実践と思索を往復しながら、不定期で刊行を続けています。

創刊号『場のはじまり/Placeology』に続く第2号のテーマ “Polylog” は、“Polyphonic（多層的）” と “Dialogue（対話）” を掛け合わせた、文化の大切さを確かめ合う“文化的対話”の場をひらくための言葉です。

展覧会をつくる過程で、作家との対話は欠かせない。その対話は、日常の会話や正しさを求める議論とは異なり、利害を超えた対等で開かれた関係性のなかで、互いの存在や経験に静かに耳を澄ませる営みである。(本書序文より）

Polylogの実践として、これまでに Vacant/Centre で展示を開催してきた6名の作家と、Vacant主宰の永井祐介が共に展覧会を振り返りながら、「場」がどのように立ち上がってきたのか、そのプロセスを辿る６つの対話を収録しています。あわせて永井による〈文化空間学〉のエッセイを収録し、前号の「空間と場」に続き、今回は「文化」をテーマに書き下ろしています。

Vacant/Edition is a publishing project through which Vacant archives its everyday practices while deepening its thinking on the newly articulated framework of Cultural Placeology. Moving back and forth between practice and reflection within specific places, the series is published on an irregular basis.

Following the inaugural issue, The Beginning of Place / Placeology, the theme of the second volume, Polylog, is a word that combines “polyphonic” and “dialogue,” opening a space for cultural dialogue in which the importance of culture is mutually reexamined and affirmed.

In the process of creating exhibitions, dialogue with artists is indispensable. Such dialogue differs from everyday conversation or debates that seek correctness; it is an activity of quietly listening to one another’s existence and experiences within an open and equal relationship that transcends interests. (From the Preface)

As a practice of Polylog, this volume brings together six dialogues in which six artists who have previously exhibited at Vacant/Centre and Vacant founder Yusuke Nagai look back on their exhibitions together, tracing the processes through which “place” came into being. In addition, the volume includes an essay on Cultural Placeology by Nagai himself; following the previous issue’s focus on “space and place,” this installment takes “culture” as its central theme.

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〈収録内容〉

1. 文化空間学 #2「文化」/ Cultural Placeology #2 “Culture”
永井祐介 / Yusuke Nagai

2. 存在することの醍醐味 / The Delight of Simply Existing
牧口英樹 / Hideki Makiguchi

3. 隠れた美しさについて / On the Quiet Radiance of Hidden Beauty
ヨン・ココ / Jon Koko

4. 日々とつくること / Living and Making as One
明主航 / Wataru Myosyu

5. 写真を撮ることの確かさ / The Certainty of Taking a Photograph
佐内正史 / Masafumi Sanai

6. 持ち帰ってきたもの / What She Brought Back from Her Journey
ベック・ヒョワン / Hyoweon Baek

7. 旅の途上に / Along the Journey
大橋和彰 / Kazuaki Ohashi