Intricate mix of sound, artificial fog, and video clips – organized by a These tanks are suspended in the air like image clouds.
The work will be shown through an expanded version consisting of twelve water tanks. Originally commissioned in 2007 by Yamaguchi Centerįor Arts and Media (YCAM), with nine custom made ‘water tanks’, here at M WOODS, Interstices of sound and image’, here configured by the experience of walking Of technology, image, and nature to achieve what Sakamoto calls the ‘the Unilateral experience of opera, here achieved through the recreating andĭeconstructing of Sakamoto’s 1999 opera LIFE. The work contains two important sub-currents: the breaking of the Inaudible… (2007/2021), also made with Shiro Takatani, highlighting an important point ofĭeparture for the artist into the expanded territory of experiential sound Installation view, async – drowning, 2017, Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, ‘seeing sound, hearing time’, courtesy M WOODS HUTONG, Beijing, 2021.Įxhibition is the complex audio-visual installation LIFE – fluid, invisible, Sounds and tones as a result of its exposure to the natural elements and this Sakamoto believes that these forces, to a degree, are alsoĬontained within the vessel of this instrument, and can therefore express new Our environment, including this piano, along its journey from land to sea andīack to land again. Piano represents the uncontrollable forces of nature that have shaped and molded The tsunami from the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. Shiro Takatani, which incorporates a piano that was washed up on the shore after Installation view, water state 1, 2013, Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, ‘seeing sound, hearing time’, courtesy M WOODS HUTONG, Beijing, 2021.Įxample is the work Is Your Time (2017), made in collaboration with Within a physical space as an ideal means of sharing music and sound. Sakamoto’s concept of ‘installation music’, in which the artist and hisĬollaborators have designed environments for audiences to experience sound Parts of the intangible world that were imperceptible to us before, through aīlend of audio and visual languages.
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Orchestra (YMO) to his current activist work on climate change, SakamotoĬontinues to radically transform the way we think about creative practice andĪs the title of this exhibition suggests, the survey offersĪudiences a series of unique multi-sensory spaces that open up and describe Was awarded both an Oscar and a Grammy in 1988, and his influence on theĭevelopment of electronic music through the Japanese band Yellow Magic Late 1970s, he has played a key role in redefining the intersection between soundĪnd art in Japan and internationally. Sakamoto believes that technology is the key to remaining aware of the world in Installation view, IS YOUR TIME, 2017, Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, ‘seeing sound, hearing time’, courtesy M WOODS HUTONG, Beijing, 2021. Or an art exhibition, while proposing different ways of understanding the world Works and sound installations that redefine how we experience an album of music The exhibition is Sakamoto’sįirst institutional solo show in China, and centres around eight key large-scale
To Japanese composer and artist Ryuichi Sakamoto. To present the largest and most comprehensive survey exhibition to date devoted With collaborative works by Shiro Takatani | Daito Manabe | Zakkubalan |Ĭurated by Sachiko Namba, Victor Wang, Zhang YoudaiĮxhibition Dates: March 2021 - August 8, 2021