Events information

• Akiko Nakayama

  

  Akiko Nakayama

  Akiko Nakayama's work takes the classic medium of painting to unexpected and post-modern places.
  With a method she calls "Alive Painting," the Japanese artist brings her experimental music to life using vibrant, brilliant liquids
  that combine and wash away, meant to represent the natural growth, change and life cycle of all things on earth.
  Familiar shapes take form before melting into each other and taking on new characteristics, a type of living art that mirrors her abstract music.
  As her sounds mutate through textures soft and hard, resonant and soothing, so do her liquids mimic those sounds,
  creating a visual paradigm that represents some of the most mind-blowing effects you'd see at any festival—except they're happening in real life, right at her fingers.

  Akiko Nakayama
  2014 Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo JP (MA Fine Art)
  2018 LAB30 Media Art Festival / Augsburg Gearmany
  2019 Alive Painting at ARS ELECTRONICA Deep Space 8K / Austria Linz
  2019 MUTEK Montreal / Canada
  2021 CURRENTS NEW MEDIA 2021 / US

  Event Information:
  Date and time: May 28, 2022 (Sat) 15:00-18:00
  Performed by Akiko Nakayama
  From 15:00-16:00 will be open rehearsal time, but the audience will be able to view the performance freely.
  The screening of Ryu Furusawa's works will be suspended during this event.
  You can see this event by making a reservation for the exhibition. Please make a reservation through peatix according to the event date and time.

  

• Emi Kubota

  

  Emi Kubota

  Emi Kubota is a soprano singer, who researches new artistic expressions rooted in raw human voice.The exhibited work is a performance display comprised of a live singing with the artist’s own voice, and a stereophonic sound reproduction with 25 speakers installed in the front, back, left, right, upper, and lower sections of the exhibition space. What would a re-organized soundscape sound like, when a soprano singer performs in a natural soundscape reconstructed in an exhibition space?

  Kubota graduated from the Department of Vocal Music at Tokyo University of the Arts. She　also graduated as valedictorian of M.A. program at Mozarteum University Salzburg, Austria. Kubota made her European leading role debut at the Hercules Royal Hall, Munich Residenz, Germany, and has been a soloist with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and Salzburg Cathedral Orchestra, among many others. She has won numerous awards both domestically and internationally, including first prize at the YUAI German Lied Competition, and third prize at the International Singing Competition of the German Mozart Society, Prague. Since 2021, she has been a research assistant at the Art Media Center, Tokyo University of the Arts.

  Event Information:
  Performance concert by soprano singer, cello player and 25 speakers
  Date: May 24, 12:00 p.m. and thereafter at random during the concert period (15 minutes each time)
  Performers: Emi Kubota, soprano; Tetsuzo Iijima, cello (New Japan Philharmonic)
  Support: Project Acoustics Kamekawa Laboratory, Department of Musical Creativity and the Environment, Tokyo University of the Arts

• Juppo Yokokawa

  

  Juppo Yokokawa

  Juppo Yokokawa creates video artworks using chromatophores in squids.

  Yokokawa was born in Matsuyama, Ehime.
  He completed M.F.A. in Design at Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University.
  He has been a research assistant at Art Media Center, Tokyo University of the Arts.

  Event Information:
  Live perforamnce with squid by Juppo Yokokawa
  Date and time: May 21, 2022 (Sat) 15:00-15:20, May 22, 2022 (Sun) 15:00-15:20
  Performed by：Juppo Yokokawa, Squid
  Please note that this event may be canceled due to the squid availability.
  The screening of Ryu Furusawa's works will be suspended during this event.
  You can see this event by making a reservation for the exhibition. Please make a reservation through peatix according to the event date and time.

• Hiromasa Iwasaki

  

  Hiromasa Iwasaki

  Hiromasa Iwasaki creates video works with the concept of visualizing images embedded in insects. In his series “Printing a landscape on something that was once part of the landscape.”, Iwasaki prints on insect specimens the local sceneries where they were collected.

  1994 Born in Tokyo, Japan
  2017 Commenced M.F.A. in Oil Painting at Tokyo University of the Arts
  2021 Completed M.F.A in Oil Painting at Tokyo University of the Arts
  Iwasaki’s major group exhibitions include “Over the fence”, COURTYARD HIROO, Tokyo , and “imshow”, Alt_Medium, Tokyo, Japan.

  Photo:Ujin Matsuo

  

• Taishi Urarkawa

  

  Taishi Urarkawa

  Taishi Urakawa creates sceneries that are dislocated from reality, by placing elements within virtual space-like landscapes reminiscent of those found in video games or Google Maps. These elements include information and motifs sampled from an iPhone, as well as digital, gradient brushstrokes that evoke painting software like Photoshop. Reflecting on contemporary perceptions and cognitions under the influence of the Internet and digital devices, Urakawa pursues painting as a window into the landscape of contemporary society.

  1994 Born in Fukuoka, Japan
  2017 Completed B.A. at Kyushu Sangyo University
  2018 “VOCA2018”, the Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  2019 “Owarumade Owaranaiyo”, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
  2021 “Taishi Urakawa & Namonaki Sanemasa”, Okawa Municipal Seiriki Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

  

• Ayatake Ezaki

  

  Ayatake Ezaki

  The exhibited work is the first in a series of improvisations, recorded directly from Ezaki’s improvised muted piano performances. The title touten reflects the artist’s hope that “a moment of immersion in music will serve as a small break in our daily lives, like a touten (comma) in Japanese writing”. All six tracks were recorded at the atelier of Nara-based speaker brand “listude” (f.k.a. sonihouse) in cooperation with the brand. The resulting body of work has a sense of quiet warmth that encapsulates the winter air, sunlight, and the peaceful time that flows in Nara. The cover artwork is executed by Yugo Sato, and recording/mixing/mastering by Masaru Sasaki.

  Ayatake Ezaki is a musician born in 1992.
  He completed his B.A. and M.A at the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts.

• C.O.P.Y.

  

  C.O.P.Y.

  C.O.P.Y. is a project that reconsiders the concept of reproduction. They create experimental artworks mainly using output devices such as printers. Their objective is to create a relationship between the artwork and printer, where the latter is not just a means of expression, but is instead in a direct link with the artwork. The project is led by two organizers, and involves different members each time, including graphic designers, sound creators, and spatial designers.

  2021 Project formed
  2022 Exhibited copy①, a body of work that also displays the work’s production process, at New Space PA, Tokyo, Japan
  A travelling exhibition of copy① is scheduled from July 2022 at B1ock, Hangzhou, China.

  

• Sekisai

  

  Sekisai

  Sekisai is a design and fabrication studio specializing in 3D printing. In pursuit of expressing forms and colors uniquely possible by 3D printing, the studio has created a visual effect in which the colors change depending on the angle viewed. The effect is produced by arranging delicate pleats on the three-dimensional surface, with the work resulting in a physical phenomenon akin to looking at a computer graphics image.
  Sekisai was founded in 2021. The studio has won among others the Grand Prix prize at TOYAMA DESIGN COMPETITION 2020, and the Gold Prize in Student Section at CS Design Award.

  

• Mai Nunoya

  

  Mai Nunoya

  The act of viewing is what triggers the “abnormality” to reveal, in things that appear to be in order. Nunoya creates artworks in which the act of viewing elicits a transformation in the work itself, as if to provoke a “collapse” of the very perception of peripheries of the work. She continues to work with such key concepts as successions of words, books, and scent.

  Nunoya was born in 1996. She has completed a B.F.A. at the Department of Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts. Nunoya is currently completing M.F.A at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts.

  Image of "Kosho no Koh" Photography by Hiro Igarashi

  

• Mari Numakura

  

  Mari Numakura

  Mari Nakamura creates installation artworks that incorporate various forms of lights. Nakamura attempts to re-construct in exhibition spaces the various phenomena of light we see daily, brought about by such sources as sunlight and architectural lighting.

  1991 Born in Ibaraki, Japan
  2015 Completed B.A. at the Department of Design, Tokyo University of the Arts, receiving the Tokyo University of the Arts Design Award at the graduate exhibition
  2015 Exhibited in "Motion Science", 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo, Japan
  2015 Received the Kobe Biennale Grand Prize at “Art in Container International Exhibition”, Kobe, Japan
  2017 Completed M.F.A. at Department of Design, Tokyo University of the Arts, receiving the Salon de Printemps Award at the graduate exhibition
  2021 Appointed as research assistant at Art Media Center, Tokyo University of the Arts, after working for a lighting manufacturer

  

• Shin Hanagata

  

  Shin Hanagata

  Interested in shifting boundaries of self-other and human-nonhuman in a technologically accelerated capitalist society, Shin Hanagata develops, applies and offers devices for bodies that gradually cease to be neither an “I” or “human”.

  1995 Born in Tokyo, Japan
  2020 Completed B.A. in Environment and Information Studies at Keio University
  2022 Completed M.F.A. in Interaction Design and Media Arts at Tama Art University
  In 2021, Hanagata received the New Face Award in Art Division at the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival, and the Teiya Iwabuchi Jury Prize at the CAF Award 2021.
  
  Hanagata’s recent exhibitions include “Stilllive: Performance Art Summit Tokyo 2022”, Goethe Institute Tokyo; “Agoraphobia” by Token Art Center, Sumida Park, Tokyo; and “BODY EXIT CAMP”, F/A, Tokyo, Japan.

  Event Information:
  Shin Hanagata "still human" performance
  Date and time: May 27 (Fri) 15:00-18:00, May 28 (Sat) 15:00-18:00
  Performed by Kon Saito
  You can see still humans roaming around the 2nd floor exhibition booth.
  You can see this event by making a reservation for the exhibition. Please make a reservation through peatix according to the event date and time.

  

• Sanghyun Park

  

  Sanghyun Park

  Sanghyun Park captures the inextricable relationships between individual identity, society, and the land as a landscape, transferring it into tangible objects. Park sheds light on the process in which a landscape comes to acquire meanings over time, as people recognize it as an actual entity, and digest it as such. An outsider living in a foreign country, and a queer person, Park examines the situations he finds himself in through a sculptural approach, attentive to both the content and formal aspects of such situations. As a method of deconstructing the masculine context and the fixity of the sculptural medium, he proposes sculptures, of which components and display fixtures can be assembled repeatedly. Park’s work readily embodies the shifting landscape images, suggesting sculpture’s expandable nature, constructed anew each time.

  1991 Born in Seoul, South Korea
  2016 Completed B.F.A. at Department of Sculpture, Seoul National University College of Fine Arts
  2017 Selected as the Japanese Government Scholarship student by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
  2020 Completed M.F.A. at Graduate School of Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts
  Appointed as Research Assistant at Art Media Center, Tokyo University of the Arts
  2022 Group exhibition “(((((,”, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, Japan

  

• Ryu Furusawa

  

  Ryu Furusawa

  Ryu Furusawa creates artworks that reveal the fixation processes in image-media such as video, photography and painting, through manipulations of the environments in which they are viewed. Furusawa has also been working as part of artist group YOF.

  Ryu Furusawa is an artist born in 1984 in Tokyo.
  He is currently completing the Doctoral Program in Film and New Media Studies at Tokyo University of the Arts.

  Due to the facilities of the venue, the screening of this film will be suspended during the performances by Juppo Yokokawa (May 21, 15:00-15:20 and May 22, 15:00-15:20) and Akiko Nakayama (May 28, 15:00-18:00). Please understand this in advance.

  

• Nahee Kim

  

  Nahee Kim

  Nahee Kim is a media artist and web programmer based in Seoul and New York. Interested in socially codified human sexualities and reproductive processes from the perspective of biopolitics, Kim creates experimental narrative videos by producing codes related to human sexual desire.

  1991 Born in Seoul, South Korea
  Kim is a member of artist collective eobchae.
  2019 Artist-in-Residence, MASS MoCA, Massachusetts, United States
  2021 Scalability Project (online)

  

• MCE Kamekawa lab.

  

  MCE Kamekawa lab.

  For many years, recorded music in exhibitions has been played in traditional arrangements like speakers placed side to side, or headphones. In our daily lives, however, we are constantly surrounded by sound coming from various directions. In this exhibition, we attempt to present music with the kinds of audio we experience daily, and those beyond our day-to-day experience, by means of stereophonic sound reproduction with 25 speakers installed in the front, back, left, right, upper, and lower sections of the exhibition space.

  [Works on display]
  “Scent of Dream” by Yuki Ito (composition) and Miki Morinaga (sound design)
  “Ambit Acoustics” by Kotaro Tanaka (composition) and Tsubasa Ikeda (sound design)
  “Snow Crossing” by Nanako Matsuyoshi (composition) and Tsubasa Ikeda (sound design)
  “Listening” by Mina Fujigaki (sound design)
  “Niwa no ichibu (Part of the garden)” by Michiru Nakamura (composition) and Nao Tawaratsumida (sound design)
  “Kyrie Gloria” by Takumi Uchida (composition) and Megu Tokunaga (sound design)