This is the third installment of the "Hello Project," in which Matsuda, who calls himself a "scum" artist, collaborates with the works of masters on his own. This video work is based on John Cage's "4 minutes 33 seconds," in which Matsuda silently performs using his face for 4 minutes 33 seconds.
*Matsuda's "Hello Project" is not so much an ironic production against existing art, but rather a self-indulgent supplementary proposal against masterpieces.
Mostly it aims at a fusion of high art and low art. In other words, it is an experiment that supplements a work that tries to establish a stoic spirituality with ideas that are mundane and greedy. To use an analogy from the suburbs where I grew up, it is like adding the culture of "Amagasaki," which is filled with adult "ugliness" such as gambling parlors and red-light districts, to "Ashiya," a high-class residential area where there are no pachinko parlors or other　entertainment establishments.