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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

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