Miki SASAKI
International symposium "Visual Culture 2022" 2022年3月26日 CICA Museum 招待有り
This study examines the nature of visually constructed words through the analysis of new
words produced in the "Plastic Word Dictionary" workshop for creating new words at the
Tokyo Biennale 2020/2021, held in Tokyo from 17 August to 5 September 2021. Through an analysis of the new words produced in the "Plastic Word Dictionary" workshop, held in Tokyo during the Tokyo Biennale 2020/2021, the nature of visually constructed words is examined.
In the long history of poetry, the origin of language, there is a method of poetry that
focuses on the visual.Its history can be traced back to the birth of the calligraphy in the 300s,but in terms of visual communication it could be traced back to the cave paintings of the La Paciega cave in Spain, written 6,400 years ago. There are six orientations in visual communication: personal, historical, technical, ethical, cultural and critical, and the
conditions for becoming a lang, a language system in which words are used communally,
consist of these six. Visual Poetry was Lang's attempt to scrap and build a new poetic form by liberating the fixed meanings and properties that are systematically shared by certain words and characters, but the language activity of the individual, the parole, has been replaced by the selfhood that is so common in contemporary poetry. However, Parole, the linguistic activity of the individual, has been replaced by Selfhood(Watakushi-sei, in Japanese), an area of visual poetry that remains to be explored today.
The aim of this study and exhibition are to classify Plastic words created in the workshop
at the Tokyo Biennale 2020/2021 into six perspectives of visual communication, and to
compare and discuss the nature of each of them, in order to present theoretical possibilities for a new versification in visual poetry.