The Mechanism of Not to Die

〜死なないメカニズムについて〜

現段階で設定が可能な最終課題を「死なない」ことの定義とし、そのメカニズムを解く。環境構築の要素として音の作品と「死なない」メカニズムへのアプローチにより構成。

現在、様々な考察による「死なない」ことの状態が語られているが、これらを批判的に扱う事ではなく、荒川ギンズの宣言を明確に理解したい。

「死なない」ことを言葉通りに捉えることが可能なのか、「死なない」ことのメカニズムに変化は発生していないのか。

（「死なない」ことが未定義であることから様々な理解が存在している。言語ゲームや信じること、ヴァーチャル経験、類としての存続、概念・観念の更新、本人の経験に含まれない、不確定・未確定による永遠性など様々な「死なない」が言及されているが、これらは、荒川ギンズにより宣言された「死なない」ことを捉えているのかという検証が必要となる。）

荒川ギンズの作品・活動は最初期から一貫して生命へのアプローチが行われており、その手法には幾つかの変遷や重要な展開があり、本当の「死なない」を理解し、獲得・活用するために、荒川ギンズの構築した様々な作品や思考の経験と考察が必要である。

（三つの降り立つ場／バイオスクリーヴ／切り閉じ／外在化／有機体-人間／共同性／ブランク／極限／底なし／ミステイク／遍在／手続き、、、など）

この他にも多くのキータームと関連する作品があり、それらを明確に理解することは「死なない」ことの導入であり不可欠な要素と考える。

公園やエスカレーターで発生するスケールジャグリングにより、空間や環境との相互作用から発生する「エネルギー体・エネルギーの接続体」といった現象の共同的な活用が計画され、空間から環境構築・建築と生命現象を接続する手続きが用意されている。

身体の動作による「エネルギー体」の存在を検証、獲得し「共同的」に活用するために「無数の空白の再集合」から、環境の構築と「建築する身体」を実践、生命現象への連携により「死なない」ことの定義の成立を考察する。

時間・空間へのアプローチとして、特に時「間」のスケールをジャグリングすることを目的に環境にインサートする「音」を制作。「死なない」ことの手前に「長寿」の設定を行い、養老天命反転地や三鷹天命反転住宅よりもインスタントにコンパクトに、人工的に繰り返し共同的に活用が可能な「エネルギー接続体」を構築・建築する。

（今回のサウンドシリーズの最初期の作品は2010年AG3にてMadeline Ginsさんより"But let us insert your piece into Bioscleave House too."とコメントされている）

構築・建築された環境に外在化する「私たち」として、共同的な「手続き型アソシエーション」を形成し、未経験の生命の最適化が実行され、人間のコンセプトを超えること、そして「死なない」ことの次に必要な新たな課題設定が、このパンデミックを超えるためにも可能と考える。

〜サウンド「cleave/cleaving」について〜

クリックによるグリッドとテクスチャーで構成された、環境に指標となる音をインサートします。

パターン化されたグリッドは認識のガイドの役割や、間を構築する役割など、音の聞こえる環境では、聴衆でなく、環境の利用者（ユーザー）として、聞くことから、活用することを意識的に実行し、繰り返される経験を蓄積することで、言語ではない無限・永遠の状態「底なし」を発生し、終わりの無い経験とすることで、この音が存在しなくても、現象の利用者として無数の「エネルギー体」に気づくことが可能になるでしょう。

環境の中で、反復するクリックやパターンは、ガイドとして想定や一致・不一致の判断などを連続し、経過する時間軸に対して、分割する役割が働きます。次のクリックを予測し、自身で作り出すことが可能となります。この環境では、想定と異なるクリックと出会うことで事前に構築した予測を変換し、より複雑な想定により、様々な現象の構築を繰り返します。

それは、既に知っているテクスチャーの発見もあれば、知らないテクスチャーや似ているテクスチャーも発見されます。

グリッドをガイドにした予測による現象の発生、不一致からより複雑な予測・想定による「私」の発見や存在が計測可能となります。

これらを「私」一人で実施するのでなく「私たち」として実施することで、私の構築した予測と、隣にいる「私たち」で構築した予測や現象の活用可能性がより大きく拡張されます。

ガイドの予測、一致・不一致が繰り返されることで、グリッドの「間」にのみ構築可能な現象が現れます。次のクリックを待つ「間」には何か発生しているのか、予測不可能であった記憶に関連する不安なのか、予測の精度による安心なのか。「私たち」として隣のユーザーは同じ自由を獲得できるのか、自由に活用できる「エネルギー体」となるのか?

「私たち」は「間」に「エネルギー体」を発生することは可能であるが獲得が困難である、素早くて、消えたり、サイズが変化するためであろう。

より獲得しやすくするために、最初に、ブランクの用意が必要であった、ブランクにも種類があり、より、ランディングしやすいブランクが必要である。一つはニュートラルなブランクである、繰り返すパターンにより、予測の効率化から、何も無い、本当のブランクが準備しやすくなる。そのニュートラルなブランクには、発生した現象や「エネルギー体」が明確な現実としてランディングします。

環境との関連を主に聴覚を利用して拡張し、身体動作まで影響範囲を想定することで、この音の活用方法は、中性化されたブランクにランディングするエネルギー体を獲得し「私たち」で活用することです。流れていると考えられている時間の存在を「私たち」で構築可能にすることが可能になるのではとも考えられます。昨日の「私」の構築した現象は、数年後「私たち」で活用しているかもしれない。これをどれくらい積み重ねることができれば、生命現象に近づくのか、総力的な判断としては三鷹天命反転住宅や養老天命反転地などでの現象の発生事例と比較することで「死なない」とはどのような状態であるのかを検証可能にすると考えます。

ブランクの生成とブランクにランディングするエネルギー体の発生する環境から、共同的に活用可能な現象を的確に切り閉じる(cleave/cleaving)を実行するための「音」として制作しました。

※明確な「間」の存在について、2020年からのパンデミックにより幾つかの行動様式が拡大しています。例えば、列に並ぶこと。今まで以上に前の人との「間」を作ります。

この「間」には明確な何かが発生している様に思えます。

「このパンデミック、早く収束してほしい」という思いなど、それは、自分の後ろの「間」にも、昨日この場所にも、明日も、遠くの外国での「間」にも、とてもよく似ている「間」の構築が想像できます、その「間」に何かランディングさせることは出来ないでしょうか？

自分の前に何人並んでいるのだろうとカウントした時に、グリッドが構築され、自分の後ろの「間」に注意が向いた瞬間に距離と時間を超えた現象が発生する可能性があります。

※音はスピーカーを使用して複数名で聞いて頂くことを推奨します。

ARAKAWA AND GINS "ARCHITECTURE AND PHILOSOPHY" Conference 2005(University of Paris X - Nanterre)

In 2005, a conference was held at the University of Paris 10 in Nanterre, France.

I remember that the main focus of the conference was the research on the "building body," which was presented by many of the

participants. In Japan, it was a time when the Reversible Destiny Lofts Mitaka was nearing completion, and Arakawa, who came to Japan, was preaching at various places about the possibilities of the actual transhuman condition.

I attended the conference, partly under the impression that it would be difficult to convey the possibilities of transhumanism, and examined the reasons for this.

At the conference, there was a lot of analysis of landing sites as opposed to "building bodies," and American researchers presented "landing sites constructed in the space between the pitcher and catcher" using sports as an example, and other research included analysis as poetry and body management.

Information on Nagi MOCA, Reversible Destiny -YORO PARK, and Reversible Destiny Lofts Mitaka in Japan was rarely discussed, and philosophical analysis of poetry and thought was done. The question of how to relate to the body was asked, and it is thought that

there was a difference in the research and issues that were focused on in Japan.

A copy of the book "It is against the law to die" was distributed to the attendees of this conference even though it had not been

released yet.

The following is a attach of "The Mechanism of Promise 2005" presented at the conference.

The Mechanism of Promise

Introduction

I have made a promise to Mr. Arakawa, that is, "let's meet in 10,001".

I think that this promise may be achieved through an understanding of "The essence of Possibility", which we can acquire through the experience of Arakawa and Gins' architecture.

I will examine the mechanism of this promise, in order to understand "the essence of possibility" and to demonstrate that this promise is something real, which can be kept. The architectural blueprints which have already been planned should be realized as soon as possible: they aim to realize the function of "Eternal Hope".

By clarifying the mechanism of this promise, the uneasiness and confusion surrounding architecture can be removed, and this can enable the achievement of a more positive architecture, and an understanding of the functions of architecture in a more complete context.

It is necessary to clarify the promise, and to verify that it is a guaranteed device, with opportunities which I will explain later on. And although this promise may relate to things which are currently beyond our experience, the elements by which it may be judged are already present in Arakawa and Gins' work.

So it is necessary for Arakawa and Gins to clarify "the mechanism of the promise".

The functional aspect of architecture has already been sufficiently examined. I want them to look at the promise of architecture with regards to its roles and effectiveness. This promise brings hope to people, and makes them first human, and then transhumans. In order to understand this, it is necessary to examine the following points in detail.

1.What functions or roles can architectural installations fulfill regarding the confusion surrounding architecture of Arakawa and Gins?

In order to put an end to the structural conflict between humans and transhumans, who can become equipped for the construction of life, the next role of architectural installations is to effect a change of phase from construction to observation, thus demonstrating their effectiveness and efficiency. It may be thought that the notion that only architecture can fulfill this function is an ideal: do we need another device in order to make effective progress?

I think that nothing else is needed - there is no truth independent of what we can acquire or experience through architecture. However, once this truth has been realized, it may be possible to put it into practice without architecture or other tools.

2.What is the function of architecture when cooperation starts to fragment, or becomes individualized?

The cooperation achieved through architecture becomes the effective basis for a truer form of hope, and by externalizing their basic nature, becomes part of the hope we have to renew the concept of life and humanity. But, if this hope, this cooperation, begins to fragment or diversify, how will architecture function effectively? I think that we can achieve true diversification as transhumans when unnecessary diversification is eliminated by the bottomlessness of space.

I think architecture is a unique device which can demonstrate the freedom of the relationship between true hope and achieved cooperation.

3.What is the function of architecture for people, humanity, who have anxieties, fears, and confusion concerning their renewal as transhumans?

Architecture may play a fundamental role for those of us who feel uneasiness or fear concerning true freedom, or hope that we have never experienced before. The experience of architecture is effective in that it clarifies the guarantee of our renewal as transhumans. And it can also remove the anxiety, fear, and confusion surrounding this process. The experience of architecture can provide a proof of the reality of hope. I think this experience becomes the most positive promise of our renewal as transhumans.

It may be thought that people and humanity are apt to judge things by their prospects and imaginations through experience, as they want to avoid feeling anxiety, fear and confusion. Therefore they might have an answer that their present condition is the best for them. If we were to achieve cooperation, and to make judements things topologically with equipment and experience of architecture, we would be able to prepare a topological answer which is based on cooperation. Then we would be able to prepare for a reversal.

4.What is the difference between the repeating history of Man and Transhumans History.

I would like to speak about the promise that we will not continue to repeat the same mistakes if we renew ourselves as transhumans. In acquiring true hope, eternal truth, which we have never experienced before, we will make judgments from a different dimension, and it may be difficult to make judgments with the same consciousness and criteria that we have now. We have already had the experience of missing the chance to acquire "true hope" and "eternal truth". Can we absolutely eliminate the possibility of making the same mistake again? If we cannot eliminate this possibility, we need to confront this potential mistake in some way through the proof and promise of the functions of architecture.

This is not the simple structure of a reversal of a reversal - it is necessary to question the perceived inevitability of present day consciousness, and as far as our future destiny is concerned, to consider the possibility of a reversal from a stage where architectural installations had not yet been realized. In other words, we can define and clarify the content of the promise of architecture in regards to its role in transforming people, humanity, into transhumans, and the mission of transhumans.

5.How can we keep the "eternal life" we have acquired? How can we make dying illegal?

How can transhumans keep the "true hope" and "eternal life" that we have acquired through architectural installations? How can the eternal life we have achieved recognize true freedom? Can we verify that we have extended the fundamental potential of human beings through observation? This verification can be accomplished through our own consciousness, and through cooperation. We need to prepare specific methods and mechanisms for this.

We are maintaining the previously unknown freedom of "eternal truth", "eternal life" and "making dying illegal". And I would like Arakawa and Gins to verify this, in order to continue the renewal of the freedom acquired by observation. I would expect that a common sense view would automatically develop of life as a form of cooperation and externalization.

6.Will we lose anything in exchange for gaining "eternal truth" and "eternal life"?

We are reaching a state where we can clearly recognize through architecture that the real nature of human beings is externalized. Then we can achieve real eternity, and extend human potential to the maximum. But how does the independent existence of "eternal life" and "eternal truth" work? Is there anything that we are exchanging for "eternal life" here, as we renew ourselves in a cooperative sense, shifting from individual to species (or seeds). Is there anything we are losing that no-one is aware of in this topological eternity, where we are released from space, size, choice, and time?

If this "something" is what we already know as procedures, consciousness, ethics, then I think we do not need to examine this further. But further examination of the possibilities offered by a natural spirit, or state of mind, existing on another dimension, may help to relieve anxiety or confusion.

7.How can we prove that we are "transhumans"?

How can we determine that we have renewed ourselves from people, humans, to transhumans? By self-realization? Cooperative realization? Or any other method? Whatever method we choose, in material terms, because it is a new experience, I think it can be related to architecture. However, the environment of architectural installations is always changing, so its nature is not to be judged by comparison, so we need a new form of consciousness. We can also think of situations where no change has been noticed.

At first I thought I would like Arakawa and Gins to judge if we have become transhumans. But now I have changed my mind. The first work of the transhumans is to judge each other's renewal cooperatively.

8.After the transhumans world has been created, do we need something else to hope for?

I think we can confirm the experience and the effectiveness of architecture, and this reinforces the promise I referred to at the beginning of this talk. This view aims for the realization of architectural installations more rapidly and at a higher level. After that, what will Arakawa and Gins call for? Will there be a new problem, another goal to achieve, another hope? It will be difficult to answer this until we have first achieved true freedom, eternal truth, and the construction of life. I hope it will be a part of the contruction that we prepare demonstrations for the next answer.

We might not be able to demonstrate above items at present. When we acquire true eternity, we donot need to have thoughts of 'next'and the system any more. I expect the world where we can judge effectively through our memories(immunity).

Conclusion

We would like to meet Arakawa and Gins in 10,001, when the promise has been achieved, and ask them whether further hopes, or wishes, are needed. Then we can confirm true life, and eternity, and discuss what is necessary for human beings as a next step, what hopes we should search for. For now, the time is not ripe. We need first to achieve "eternal life", and we need the architectural installations of Arakawa and Gins urgently.

There are lots of architecture and parks which have been under construction and already finished. We should make good use of this skills of architecture, and achieve the project in various places of the world.Then I hope transhumans will be able to observe and re-construct through making good use of Japanese architecture. I am going to observe myself from now on, and get into the next stage where I can clarify criteria for the realization of the architecture in order that this 8 heads can become the chance for us to achieve the project.

I would like to dedicate this text to Ms. Toshiko Okamoto, who has approached eternity.