무라카미 다카시가 코로나19의 여파로 파산 위기에 놓였다

무라카미 다카시가 코로나19의 여파를 견디지 못하고 파산 위기에 놓였다는 소식이 전해졌다. 무라카미 다카시는 직접 자신의 인스타그램 계정을 통해 자신이 설립한 미술관 및 예술 단체인 카이카이 키키가 파산 위기에 처했다고 설명했다. 또한 그는 코로나19로 인해 그간 많은 프로젝트가 취소됐으며, 지난 9년간 진행해오던 SF 영화 <젤리피쉬 아이즈 파트2: 마하산크>의 제작 또한 중단된 상태라고 설명했다.

덧붙여 그는 “<젤리피쉬 아이즈 파트2: 마하산크>를 제작해오던 지난 9년간, 회사운영으로 인해 엄청난 스트레스를 받아야 했지만 이 프로젝트가 있어 어려가지 난관을 이겨낼 수 있었다”라고 전하며, “시리즈가 몇 회분의 에피소드로 끝날지는 모르겠지만, 그 여정은 계속될 예정이니 함께 동행해달라”라고 당부했다.

무라카미 다카시가 직접 영상을 통해 담아낸 근황 소식은 아래에서 확인할 수 있다.

Instagram에서 이 게시물 보기

This spring, I streamed a series of cooking show of a sort on Instagram Live. I’m sure those who watched them were utterly confused, but I was trying to buoy my own thoroughly sunken feelings through these streamings. With the sudden swoop of COVID-19 pandemic, my company faced bankruptcy and I had to give up on a number of projects, the most symbolic of which being the production of my sci-fi feature film, Jellyfish Eyes Part 2: Mahashankh. For nine long years, I had persevered! It was a film that was to realize my childish dreams! The enormous budget I poured into this project, as well as my tenacious persistence, put a constant and tremendous stress on my company’s operation for the past nine years. But at the same time, I was able to endure various hardships because I had this project. Faced with the current predicament, however, I was persuaded by both my business consultant and tax attorney that I must, simply must try and drastically reduce our business tax by filing the film’s production cost as tax-exempt expenditure. To that end, I am going to produce and release a series of videos to publicly announce the discontinuation of the film’s production. (To be clear, this is an entirely legitimate procedure—I’m not trying to evade tax!) These videos will be released against the backdrop of our struggle to avoid an economic catastrophe, but perhaps it may have a cathartic effect on the viewers/my followers to see the story of stupid Murakami’s failure. Long story short, I’m a silly human being for whom the moment of bliss is when I am thinking my truly childish sci-fi thoughts. I don’t know how many episodes the series will end up being, but a series it will be, so please come along with me on this journey for a little while.

Takashi Murakami(@takashipom)님의 공유 게시물님, 2020 6월 30 8:02오전 PDT