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Mr Murakami’s Place

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Unit PG10
Year 5

Idiosyncrasy is the repeated futile Sisyphean Tasks, unlikely to offer answers to the questions on climate change.

Told through the nine lives of Murakami’s cat, the nine protagonists (from nine of Haruki Murakami’s novels) who travelled to the very ‘end of the world’ in the Baltic Sea in search of the ‘author-cum-agony uncle’ for answers. Instead of meeting the author, they are met with nine futile tasks, which they must endure for nine days. Within the extreme climatic context, the metaphor of the feline forms the architectural constructs on the islands of unresolved, uncertain, and curious. By the ninth day, just like the endings in Murakami’s novels, the protagonists leave without answers but only memories of hope to help reflect on their personal impact on the environment.

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The Bartlett
Summer Show 2022
01 – 16 July 2022
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