September 5th, 20:52 at the art festival

Part of the exhibition at Aichi Triennale, an international art festival held in Aichi Prefecture, was canceled in just three days. The direct cause was the threat of “carrying gasoline”, but at that time there were a series of protests by phone and e-mail, so-called Dentotsu, at the art festival office. . The number is said to have risen to 2900 in 3 days. “What kind of people were convinced?” When we were looking at Twitter, we were able to contact people who were tweeting, such as “Let ’s crush the anti-Japan event”.

Contact the convex person! The real face

We met in downtown Nagoya.

What appeared there was a 16-year-old high school boy.

He started Twitter 2 years ago and found out that he found Dentsu.

Den convex means to protest intensively by telephone or email anonymously to the government.

I asked the boy why he was convex.

“I saw photos on Twitter. The collage of the emperor doesn't seem to be art, and I think that the exhibition of the girl's image is something that subsides Japan. So I think it ’s quite influential, ”he says.

The story of the boy was true. His Twitter had 3700 followers, and tweets posted the day after the opening of the art festival spread to 2500 people.

"It's called collective psychology. There is an atmosphere where everyone is allowed to do something together rather than doing it alone. What I say is, but after all, people who are convex are stressed out or stressed. I think.

The first opportunity for Den convex

Furthermore, when I interviewed, I was able to contact another person.

I was a 42-year-old office worker working for a major company.

This is the first time that a man has been convex.

I wanted to protest the contents of the exhibition, and I was lost for an hour after confirming the contact information.

Even so, the reason why he decided to go to Den-on was the tweet of Katsuya Takasu, who lives in the prefecture and is famous for cosmetic surgery.

“He was very angry. Mr. Takasu was angry. What is it to do with taxes? I'm afraid that such a person is moving and I'm convinced that I can call for the first time. I thought"

Unexpectedly steep tone

The man called the secretariat, asked, “Is the rumor true?” And asked to remove the exhibition.

At that time, he said that he had an unexpectedly steep tone.

“At that time, no matter how much you feel, I do n’t think it ’s really cool. After all, I think it ’s a bit stronger.”

Protests against the secretariat included content that alleged violence, such as `` The dead will come out '' or `` I will kill you, this bastard '', and some of the staff who responded received mental damage and did work It is said that some people could not continue.

regret? Or civil intentions?

The exhibition was canceled as a result. As for how to think about this, the 42-year-old man said that he had no choice but to regret it.

"I thought I shouldn't show you anything, but I called you to remove it, but there was a bit of a pity that it was really removed, and I'm sorry. When"

On the other hand, a high school boy said that the protest was just a sign of public will and should be canceled.

“I think it's not wrong for me. This is a reflection of the will of the people, and I think that it was collapsed as a social opinion (planned exhibition) rather than a so-called biased story about Netouyo. It's natural for me. ''

Expert “Manualized Civilization”

The statement expressed by Denvo itself is free to express, and the secretariat said that he tried to accept these protests as much as possible.

However, Associate Professor Ryosuke Nishida from Tokyo Institute of Technology, who is familiar with social issues on the Internet, said that the protest by Denvo who spread as a result of the SNS call was “manualized civilization”. As pointed out.

“People's will is originally formed by contacting different opinions and sometimes changing opinions and positions. However, it can be thought that manual will is depriving people of their own creative ideas and thoughts. I think we can do this, and it is better to forget that this was the number of protests and the result of acting with less thought.

There are only a few of the members of Electroconvex that we were able to contact this time.
Please send your opinions and thoughts to here.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/contents/newspost/form.html