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Contemporary art fundamentally opposes war.
Thus, I oppose Japan’s new security legislation.

War creates separation between “we” and “enemies”.

Who are the “enemies” considered as a danger?
What are the profiles of these “enemies,” made into targets for unmanned aerial combat vehicles?
Where do the “enemies” in a state of war come from?
Who really are the “enemies,” positioned as evil to outside of the society?
The imagination of art goes to these “enemies”.

Time and time again, the history of art has praised war.
Not just as a result of unconditional obedience to orders.
A desire for war always lies in humans, which makes mankind’s extinction a superior aesthetic pleasure — “war is beautiful.”
An imperfect animal that senses “élan vital” in battles and killings, humans make war a spectacle.
On the monitor is a war taking place in a “far country”, giving no actual sense of violence and death.
Once distant from it, everyday life continues to go on, as if “the war did not take place”.

On the other hand, art has portrayed each person’s singular death that occurs in war.
It has conveyed how murderous actions thoroughly destroy the human mind.
It has expressed painful memories that afflict the future over many generations.
It has converted the emotion of violence and revenge, which would lead to war, into “lyrical terrorism”.

War creates separation between “we” and “enemies”.

In the midst of dichotomization between justice and evil, “barbarians”, who threaten the nation’s existence, are created.
Divisions, discrimination and dichotomies between different nationals, civilizations, cultures, races, economies and religions.
That is where a collective called “we” arises, automatizing the system of censorship and self-censorship.
The imagination of art goes to “we”.

Japan bears a future to be a neutral country that realizes high-level peace negotiations by thrusting into the thick of grudges, hatred and antagonism.
Proactive contribution to peace can be achieved by strategically taking advantage of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution.
This must be a historical necessity based on remorse over World War II.

There are unbreakable contracts with the past.
Contemporary art thus fundamentally opposes war.

Signed

Koichi Tanibe
Yusuke Mitsufuji
Yuri Shirasaka
Rika Aki
Migiwa Orimo
Naoya Fujita
Jun Yang
Satoshi Koganezawa
Jun Kawada
meosai
Emi Endo
Satoshi Hashimoto
Yaegashi Yoshihi
Jun Fukae
Toru Koyamada
Yayoi Yoshizawa
Kosuke Hatano
Hiroki Yamamoto
Kaori Homma
Yohei Tomooka
ON megumi Akiyoshi
Yuki Okumura
Hikaru Fujii
Koki Tanaka
Jun Miyagi
Ken Sasaki
Satoshi Nakashima
Hiroshi Sugawara
Meiro Koizumi
Kaz. Sakurada
Vincent Vandaele
Yuki Harada
Manabu Takano
Yoshio Shirakawa
Rumiko Hagiwara
Hitoshi Mori
Keiko Goto
Hiromi Takai
Shiigi Shizune
Michiko Tsuda
Shigeo Arikawa
Katsuhiro Saiki
Masami Kondo
Hanae Utamura
Hajime Nariai
Tamaki Kawaguchi
Masaki Nakayama
Hiroshi Sunairi
Megumi Shimizu
Shiro Masuyama
Kokatsu Reiko
Fumio Inoue
Yukiko Nagakura
Keiji Saito
Ryo Fujii
Yasuto Masumoto
Aisuke Kondo
Kazuhito Tanaka
NAKAJIMA Yuta
Sachiyo Honda
Ayako Osanai
Satoshi Otsuka
Yuka Tokuyama
Toichiro Tanaka
Atsuko Nozaki
Natsuko Kurashige
Satoshi Uchiumi
Kazuhiko Yoshizaki
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