Exhibit at Mihama-En

Date : July 24th, 2021 (Sat) - August 8th, 2021 (Sun) 18:00 - 21:00 (last admission 20:30)

Venue : Japanese Garden "Mihamaen" (10 minutes walk from the south exit of Kaihin-Makuhari Station on the JR Keiyo Line)

Admission : Free of charge (prior reservation required)

(10 min. walk from the south exit of Kaihin-Makuhari Station, JR Keiyo Line)

The legendary science fiction novel Neuromancer begins with the protagonist looking up at the sky over Chiba City. The protagonists jack into cyberspace, which is somehow similar to our current situation where we are trapped in a double grid of urban planning and the Internet. Both are infinite, yet somehow lonely, worlds of only humans. How can we return to a world of diverse living and inanimate objects?

It was once said that by connecting our thoughts with each other on a global scale, we would come to live in a metaphysical ecosystem of knowledge called the "Noösphere". Now that it is becoming clear that each organism has its own way of perceiving the world, I believe that we can create a new "Noösphere" ​that is not limited to humans.

This exhibition is set in a Japanese garden, an extended environment where nature is artificially reconstructed to create a greater meaning than it originally had, and the works that serve as the nexus of nature, technology and art are arranged in a manner similar to the process of the tea ceremony. It is neither an idealized cyberspace nor a simple natural world, but a place where various cognitive worlds resonate with each other, and at the same time, it is supposed to be a successor to the idea of "Yugen" that has been pursued by tea ceremony.

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Exhibit at NOWHERE NYC

WED-FRI : 11AM - 7PM
SAT-SUN : 12AM - 6PM
MON-TUE : Closed

Listening to the Silence

Ray Kunimoto

Even though we can close our eyes, we cannot close our ears.
In other words, whether we like it or not, our ears are always listening to something.

In 1951, John Cage realized that mankind is incapable of experiencing total silence.
Because, even in a perfect anechoic chamber, we can hear the two sounds we inadvertently emit.
The sounds heard there are the sound of the nervous system and the sound of blood circulation.
They are the sounds of life from our own bodies.

Before we are born into this world, our bodies are surrounded with the sound of water and the sound of a pulse - in other words, the sounds within a mother's womb.
However, once we are born into the world and become accustomed to the tumult of society we completely lose the opportunity to turn our ears to the sounds inside ourselves.

Based on the concept of "listening to silence", I reinterpret the fundamental sounds flowing inside human beings, and create a new acoustic space.
While sitting, while drinking tea, while closing your eyes, turn your ears to the "sounds that exist inadvertently".

And, at the end of this day, I hope you turn off the television and music that flows through your home and listen to the sounds that exist inadvertently within yourself.

Exhibited at Sharjah Art Museum, UAE

8 am - 8 pm

REI -Drops and Bubbles-

In the air, water turns into rain drops.
Inside water, air turns into bubbles.

Drops and bubbles move in an arabesque following the laws of nature.
Drops and bubbles are separated by a boundary: the water surface.

Drops and bubbles make ripples upon touching this surface, this shaking the boundary.