Up and Down
Dreaming about our future selves, especially as kids, we envision life full of adventures — as astronauts, champions, discoverers. The swing rises high. Yet as adults we find ourselves confined to a humdrum routine, reminiscing about a carefree youth. The swing descends. Did we stray from our dreams? [back-and-forth] In Up and Down Tantsurin echoes the obsessive office diy, weaving swings out of colorful paperclips. Locating them in places unreachable for the spectator, even the practical feasibility of swinging perspectives is being questioned. Is this exactly as imagined? [up-and-down]