hayate kobayashi
he / him
apparatus and its moving images
134万人の口へ / To all the 1,344,900 mouth,
Legacy — Winter 2021
Condensed Coffee
Designed Uncertainty (Course) — Winter 2020
dist(me, you)
Re-state, re-stage, re-enact (Short-term Project) — Winter 2021
Dividoorism
Convergence — Winter 2020
I miss you
Concretely Unimaginable — Winter 2020
road as a timeline
New Wilderness (Course) — Summer 2021
Time as a long bread
Time Apparatus (Course) — Winter 2021
つぎはぎの言語 / 拼凑语言 / Space-in-translation
Matters of thinking (Course) — Summer 2022
hayate kobayashi — Condensed Coffee
Designed Uncertainty (Course) — Winter 2020
This is a record of coffee, dripped and brewed by Shibuya Scramble Crossing.
“密(condensed)”, chosen as the Kanji of the year 2020, is seen in numerous situations in Japan. As the Tokyo governor exclaims “三密(risk of three condensed acts)”, I, staying in Japan, am temporarily requested to restraint voluntary.
However, because these requests are not legally binding, I in Japan also have a freedom of transportation. That is, I can go any places, even if it is Shibuya Scramble Crossing, known as the busiest pedestrian intersection in the world. What if I can taste it?
From Shibuya Scramble Crossing livestream, the cars turned into coffee grounds, and the pedestrians into water drips. The more the cars and pedestrians passed by, the stronger and watery coffee you can get.
After a week passed from lifting the state of emergency in Tokyo, I hear that pedestrians in Shibuya are still increasing. Let’s see and taste with this coffee machine.
