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2010年12月５日（日曜日）のAquduct競馬場における１日分のレースのオッズ表示板上に、数十秒毎にアップロード
された数字の全記録。あらかじめ決めたグリッド内の定位置に集合的意思として既成事実化していく数字を配置する。
数字の「量」をグリッド内の領域に物質的には納まらないままに据え付ける。展示される形は可変であり、再現性は無い。\\
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定位置を持たない構造になっているが、そこに記された数字は今さら動かない「事実」である。この数字の記録は競馬場
観戦席正面でのビデオ撮影をもとに書き出した。その動画には、オッズ表示板の数字の変動と同時に、人々や馬、風で動
く木々や旗、背後に位置する路上の車の走行、それぞれの「運動」が各々の根拠／因果関係で現れ、交錯しつつひとつのフレームに納まっている。\\
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Mixed media installation: paper, pencil, pen on board; LCD wide-screen
monitor, video (180 minutes)
Variable dimensions

The tote board in the Aqueduct horse racing track in New York City
serves as a tool of expression in this mixed-media installation.
Looped video replays of recorded races shot from a fixed frame are
played on a monitor that displays the changing odds of wagers placed
before each race.

The camera is an objective recorder of the fluctuating odds,
reflecting or tracking the temper and intensity of the group’s betting
instincts and preferences. Riding on the wagers are the bettors‘
hopes, biases, faith, tension, and sometimes even urgency. The camera
is an impartial witness to a compendium of individual partiality and
desires that flicker on the tote board, while other changes and
movements demonstrate other forms of physical motion--such as the
waving flags, figures of working men, the occasional car hurtling by
in the distance, the starting gate being driven across the track on
the lower band of the screen, and eventually the horses being prepared
by the jockeys and the race itself.

The video recordings are meant to illustrate motion in the form of the
fluctuating odds uploaded on the tote board at 30-second intervals and
other peripheral movements with the former being a more emotionally
charged realm and the latter being another ‘realm of fluctuation’ that
simply follow the physical laws of movement in space and time.

I then transferred all the recorded numbers displaying the different
variables such as time, odds, wins, and probables into a different
format. Each tote board for each race is reconstructed in paper, with
the fluctuating numbers all listed on reels of paper that loop either
vertically or horizontally and that can be manually moved with
attached paper wheels, allowing visitors to manipulate both the
physical motion within each paper construction as well as the recorded
fluctuation of odds. The sculptural translation into paper of the
flickering changes on the screen creates an extension or a rudimentary
replication of the recorded motion or fluctuations.

All the numbers on the tote board were replaced and arranged by my
hand onto paper as my ‘drawing,’ comprising an exercise that produces
another realm of motion.\\
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