Feb. 2026
Venues; Tsukamoto Chiba No. 3 Building, Tsukamoto Dai-Chiba Building
Sogo Chiba Store, Basement Level – Sencity Garden
Schedule Sep. 19 (Fri) – Nov. 24 (Mon, substitute holiday), 2025
Preparation phase Jun. 2025 / Artwork production with on-site research in Chiba
Jul. – Aug. 2025 / Artwork production and adjustments
Sep. 2025 / Performance and exhibition preparation
Sep. 7, 2025 / Performance at Chiba Port
Sep. 19, 2025 / Exhibition opening at the former hair salon Mizuki
PSYCHOBUILDING® is a project that reexamines concepts such as success, motivation, ambition, and meaning. The artist argues that success forms a symbiotic relationship by attaching itself to individuals and personalities, which, from an economic perspective, functions as a mechanism for extracting labor. It operates as a disguised system of exploitation, incorporating personal attributes such as productivity, talent, and beauty in order to function.
Motivation, by contrast, does not rely on external evaluation or material reward; it arises internally from one’s own interests and sense of fulfillment.
Ambition, however, is often nothing more than a fantasy grounded in assumptions with no basis in reality. While human choices are shaped by
circumstances and give form to a sense of “meaning,” the relationship between
choice and meaning is self-referential, tracing an endless loop.
Burning incense, drinking coffee, cutting one’s hair—meaning can reside even in such everyday acts.
One of the exhibition venues selected for this project was a former hair salon located in the basement of a mixed-use building built in 1974 near JR Chiba Station. By utilizing a space that seems to have preserved the atmosphere of the day it was built, the artist assembled the entire environment as an assemblage, prompting viewers to reflect on the meaning of viewing itself.
(Takashi Iwasawa / Project Director)
Different States of Being ― Gregory Maass & Nayoungim
Fun Fact: One has to understand that one is not one person. There is only the appearance of a self. To be quite precise, we don’t have a self and, in fact, the so-called ‘self’ is a myth, an unmeaning of vacuous character. Self means divided from vacuum (hollow), emptiness, or also known as Śūnyat&, which may describe a state not as great as it "rst seems. Self, individual, and personality: These are three concepts that are conjured out of thin air. They are not validated by any research or study.
But how can you feel you?
There seems to be an adaptive scheme, which is called a self-state, a concept
invented and popularized by Philip Bromberg. This “self-state” is a new explanation model in psychology. Every newborn creates self-states.
Self-states are facets of a prism through which light scatters. We (our identities) are collections of self-states. Self-states are internal objects. Self-states, relationships, self and thus personality do not stay the same over time.
Most of your trait-domains are unstable, and very few of them, if any, survive life
on. (Like for example my wonted lewd- and laziness.) They are constructed around relationships, they are contextual. Self-states are representations, that is they are illusions of an illusion. The relationship de"nes you. Other people de"ne you.
So why do you think that you are the same? Why do you feel coherent?
How come you feel continuous? You don't get up in the morning and be like, I am not the same person today. I will be/ am somebody else today. Let's say Bill Gates, or how about John Waters (sorry both are already taken).
How do healthy people decide which self-state will function?
We need self-statements with narrative context. So, these self-states altogether could form a pseudo-identity, freely quoting Sam Vaknin, “which includes the self-states, ego-functions, and probes, stimulation, extracting information from the environment and framing it inside one another.”
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