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CLOUD FOREST–PatioA, PatioB

Fujiko NAKAYA+Shiro TAKATANI

  • 2010
  • Installation
  • Commissioned by YCAM
  • World Premiere
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Interfaces of fog, light and sound

Large-scale installation combining fog and sound.

Surrounded by glass walls, the patios in which this work was set up are penetrated by sunlight, wind and rain, resulting in the spaces' characteristic co-existence of exterior (natural environment) and interior (artificial environment). This work attempts to create a new form of spatial art by way of interaction between these aspects of exterior and interior.

Within the work, artificial fog is released from various directions and at varying intervals. As the work itself is affected by the environment inside and outside the venue, it continually changes its appearance. It incorporates a special sound system with superdirective speakers generating a soundscape to accompany the visitor's discovery of delicate movements of fog and light as it can't usually be observed in daily life.

As the respective artificial fog generator, layout of the sound system, and control algorithm were adjusted to the two patios' different shapes and sizes, the resulting sceneries looked completely different.
While walking in the patios wrapped in fog, visitors who became "parts of the environment" of sorts could discover the nature of "environments" as interfaces combining notions of exterior and interior, natural and artificial.

Profiles

Fujiko NAKAYA

Artist

Fujiko Nakaya is a internationally known Japanese artist who works with pure-water fog extensively to create fog installations, performances, fog stage sets, and environmental park designs. Her first fog sculpture was commissioned by Experiments in Art and Technology for the Pepsi Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka Japan. There are permanent installations of her work at: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Foggy Forest in Showa Kinen Park, Tokyo; and Greenland Glacial Moraine Garden in the garden of the Museum of Snow and Ice, Kaga, Japan (architect, Arata Isozaki), a museum in honor of her father, a snow and ice scientist who created the first artificial snow crystal. She has collaborated on dance and performance works with video artist Bill Viola, composer David Tudor, choreographer Trisha Brown, installation works with Shiro Takatani; and media artists group doubleNegatives Architecture. Among her most recent works Nakaya created a huge waterfall-like fog installation under one of the city's main bridges for the Singapore Biennale, an interactive fog landscape controlled by wind for the Yokohama Triennale, "MU: Mercurial Unfolding" at I'institut Franco-Japonais in Tokyo; and a Fog Garden for Japan Industry Pavilion at Shanghai Expo.

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Shiro TAKATANI

Artist

Born in 1963, Takatani is one of the founding member of the artist collective Dumb Type, which was established in 1984. Besides Dumb Type, Takatani began a parallel solo career in 1998. In his solo activities, Takatani’s works were presented, among others, Festival de Marseille, New National Theatre Tokyo, National Theater & Concert Hall Taipei, Centre Pompidou-Metz France, Sharjah Biennial UAE. His first retrospective solo exhibition, Camera Lucida, was held at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum in 2013. He also worked in collaboration with diverse artists such as Fujiko Nakaya, Mansai Nomura, Raku Kichizaemon XV, among others. The latest theater piece by Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, TIME was premiered at Holland Festival in June 2021. Dumb Type is the Japan Pavilion Artist at the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia in 2022.

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Credit

Sound Design: Takuya Minami (softpad)Programming: Ken FurudateDesign of electronic board, Programming for DMX control: Ryota KuwakuboRecording support: Tetsujiro Suita

Exhibition

CLOUD FOREST

Finished

Saturday, August 7 — Sunday, October 17, 2010

* Information in Japanese only

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Installation

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Fujiko NAKAYA's works

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Shiro TAKATANI's works

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