(digital) Soba Choko

The cup called soba choko has a long and popular history in Japan. This artistic research project presented at le Signe, (digital) Soba Choko, focuses on this object that allows an experimentation of cultural, artistic, technical and commercial exchanges and also an observation of the current and historical interweaving of what is digital in how it is related to fingers and to ideas, and also as a method of organisation and context.

The shape and the dimensions of the soba choko are especially stable: a truncated cone measuring 6 cm at the base, 8 cm at the opening. This constance bears a wide range of matters, textures, patterns, signs and even uses. This singularity arouses an appeal for discovering and collecting the object and also wits its popular nature, keeping away from splendour and luxury.

The project deals with the soba choko as an object capable of questioning a whole series of meanings of the term digital, with its ambivalence ( digital in IT and manual), which now offers as many solutions as problems. Once the question (digital) Soba Choko is posed, an intelligent and poetic pursuit is possible, by means of constructing, appearing, designating, interacting. Digital calls upon hands and ideas, it is at the same time method and context.

This project is an augmented version of the exhibition presented at the CCC at la Borne in December 2022.

Featuring exceptional loans from the Lugdunum Museum in Lyon, the Fine-Arts and Archeological Museum of Besançon, the Municipal Museum of Nuits-Saint-Georges and the Art and History Museum of Chaumont.

Avec les céramistes et peintres Carmen Albendea, Laurence André, Cécile Bicler, Laurence Blasco-Mauriaucourt, Étienne Boissier, Marie Delafosse, Marie Drouot, Marie-Anne Dudouit, Fabrique de poteries de Cliousclat, Claire Linard, Maya Micenmacher, Mari Minato, Camila Oliveira Fairclough, Christine Pedley, Anne Reverdy, Émilie Vanhaecke, Florence Wang, Yué Wu