{"id":522,"date":"2010-03-22T06:34:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T13:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/miko-no-inori\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T23:18:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T07:18:42","slug":"miko-no-inori","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/miko-no-inori\/","title":{"rendered":"Miko no Inori"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-522-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=99PsH7MikYw&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=99PsH7MikYw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=99PsH7MikYw<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>The Japanese Mariko Mori is an artist that studied at the <em>Bunka fashion College <\/em>in Tokyo,&nbsp;and used to be a fashion model in the late 80s before stepping into the art scene.&nbsp;<br \/>Most of Mori&#8217;s work is known for including a central element: herself. <\/p>\n<p>With experience as a fashion model in her past, being in her own artworks isn&#8217;t something unusual for the artist. When in an interview the question came about herself featuring in her artworks, she answered: <br \/><em>&#8220;That originates from when I was a fashion model, at around age sixteen. Often I designed my own cloths and made them myself (I studied at a fashion college) and I asked a photographer to take a photograph of myself wearing the cloths that I made. Some way my work is the extension of those experiences. Further back into my childhood, my father loved to take photographs of me. When I was nine I made my own costumes for a school play and I experienced becoming different characters. I loved to document myself as different images and I think my work evolved after this favorite activity.&#8221; <\/em>[1]<\/p>\n<p>As the clip of the video installation <em>Miko no Inori<\/em> shows, the artist is again featured as the main element in the work. Here she plays a Cyber-fairy with a glass sphere in her hands. [2] Wearing a costume of her own design, she plays around with a glass globe, hypnotizing the audience with her magic eyes, pulling them into her world, entranced by spellbinding music and vocals in the background.<\/p>\n<p>As in <em>Nirvana<\/em>, her well-known use of tomorrow&#8217;s technology and ageless spiritual imagery is equally evident in <em>Miko no Inori. <\/em>The spiritual element can first of all be seen in the title of the artwork: <em>Miko no Inori<\/em>, which can be translated as &#8220;Miko&#8217;s prayer&#8221;. Can we therefore assume that Mori&#8217;s character in this work, the Cyber-fairy, is called Miko? Maybe the person that can be heard singing is called Miko, and the Cyber-fairy is a just an image in her mind, prayer or dream? (As I like to see it) This is of course up to people&#8217;s own interpretation. And then again, next to that Miko is a Japanese name, it can also mean Priestess, Medium or even sorceress. Therefore this art work can have many meanings and looked at in different ways. You can see Mori&#8217;s character as a Cyber-fairy (as the fan-site does) in someones imagination, a priestess, but you can also see her as a sorceress of the future, playing with her magic. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The mixture of technological and spiritual elements identified above is visible in the art work itself: Mori&#8217;s character is an ageless, almost spiritual image with her glowing eyes and the spellbinding music playing. But her outfit and surroundings give a more technological look and atmosphere. It is a mixture of two worlds, clashing with each other, creating one person, who pulls you slowly into her world.<\/p>\n<p>This artwork can also be related to Mori&#8217;s <em><a title=\"Click to go to Artwork\" href=\"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/?q=node\/787\">Last Departure<\/a>, <\/em>in which she plays the same character.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LinkoftheMoon_MarikoMori.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>References<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1]:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jca-online.com\/mori.html\">http:\/\/www.jca-online.com\/mori.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[2]:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thedreamexperience.homestead.com\/files\/start.htm\">http:\/\/thedreamexperience.homestead.com\/files\/start.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picture taken from:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbit.zkm.de\/files\/orbit\/LinkoftheMoon_MarikoMori.jpg\">http:\/\/www.orbit.zkm.de\/files\/orbit\/LinkoftheMoon_MarikoMori.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":6379,"template":"","artist":[654],"streams":[5],"keywords":[3383,2110,3016],"decade":[5543],"media":[5547,5546],"class_list":["post-522","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist-mariko-mori","streams-coded-form-and-electronic-production","keywords-cyber-fairy","keywords-glass","keywords-video-installation","decade-1990s","media-image","media-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6393,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/522\/revisions\/6393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}