Such is the Power of the Empty Lot

Such is the Power of the Empty Lot (2020)

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Such is the Power of the Empty Lot is a special publication of Heterotopias magazine. Across six interconnected projects, the book is a study of Tokyo, a place whose reality has long been tangled and obscured with its endless media and fictional depictions. Mixing and remixing real and digital depictions of Tokyo, each chapters’ works utilize unique combinations and fractures of photographic and imaging techniques. Sources include Yakuza 0’s lush depiction of Tokyo just before the 1980’s real estate bubble burst; photos from visits to the same locations in real life, but in the midst of radical reshaping construction for the 2020 “Akira” Olympics; and ghosts of time contained in Google Maps glitches. Woven throughout the book are texts by archeologist Justin Reeve exploring his experience in both the digital recreations of Tokyo and his time wandering the city in person. Through observations of real estate from virtual estate, Such is the Power of the Empty Lot explores the increasingly complex and shifting ways we know places in the digital imaging age.

Such is the Power of the Empty Lot is available on the Heterotopias store.