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 With a humanistic approach, David Krantz travels to densely populated cities of mostly homogenous inhabitants to record proxemics field data. Utilizing a revised anthropological gaze during this time of lingering scopic regime, Krantz acutely observes psychological distance by visually measuring the physical space between human occupants of shared public transportation systems. While navigating the public passages between destinations, these commuters appear to harmoniously negiotiate their co-inhabitation while displaying the limits of their respective boundaries. The space between the travelers is a site of unconscious negotiation and implicit agreement to maintain a culturally appropriate distance. This interspace is a locus of exchanges, an intersecting and interwining space in which multiple psychological bodies reach outwards, extending like new growths or prosethic appendages. As this expanding territory becomes difficult to map, the shifting edges of these bodies reveal an impossible division of self and other. Where does the individual pyschological space of one body end and another begin? In the four-channel video installation, Ebisu (2005), Krantz strategically intervenes during an afternoon rush hour in a crowded Tokyo transit hub. He casts a non-eastern actor of a specific height and weight, wearing Western business attire, to intercept and obstruct the flowing bodies of commuters. Like a statue, the actor remains expressionless, immobile and transfixed. By observing how the travelers navigate and negotiate his presence, Krantz offers a unique insight into the dynamics of physical boundaries and psychological borders. by Young Chung |
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