projects

Post-National Museum of Parakeet History

Post-National Museum of Parakeet History is an allegorical institution which is run by Monk Parakeets. Monk Parakeets are the metaphor for immigrants because of an alien species. They deal with the controversial history surrounding ENOLA GAY(here personified as female), the Boeing B-29 Superfortress that dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima in 1945. ENOLA GAY has been exhibited at Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center (an annex of Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum) without any negative fact about the atomic bomb or its effect to the human body since 1993. The PNMPH develops the alternative narration to rediscuss about this politically suppressed symbol.
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World War II Club

World War II Club is the series of satirical storytelling about the war system that produces the tragedies. Through the history of Alien Detention Camp at Missoula at the beginning of WW II, Tsutaja approaches to the issue of immigration and racism with the new ideas for the characters and story structures to break the stereotype in Western history.
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The Kingdom of Kitai

The Kingdom of Kitai is a fictional nation modeled on Japan from the 1960s to the 1990s; it is also the root world of Kiosk of Oblivion. The story is based on my father’s memories and documents as a civil engineer, as he helped with Japan’s postwar recovery and development. At that time, nobody could imagine the negative impact on the environment that these building activities would cause in the future. Read more

Village of Oblivion

This strange kiosk is meant to seem as if it is rising from the ground, as represented by a “hole” on the floor that has the same shape as the kiosk’s roof. In the map and leaflets (viewers can take away), the seven domestic animals who were left in Fukushima right after the nuclear power plant meltdown are describing their catastrophic world. Read more

Daily Transformation Comic / Sculpture

Daily Transformation Comic is Tsutaja's invented form for which she produced a page per day. Tsutaja started this format during her staying in Japan 2011 when Tohoku earthquake and tsunami occurred Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. She posted completed pages immediately on her blog and some free comic streaming sites at the end of each day. She wanted to observe herself and how she could change daily. The reaction from her audiences encouraged and inspired the process and the progress of the story. Read more.

INNER CRUSH SCENE

INNER CRUSH SCENE is an art news paper project that Tsutaja started in 2005. The first issue was contributed, published, and delivered by participating artists. Read more.