Cultural production:
[as an outcome of generative research on co-design]
[(リサーチ成果物としての)文化的制作]
Coordination & management:
[coordination and project management for
overseas exhibitions of Japanese art]
[日本美術の海外展運営]
Writing:
[in the transdisciplinary fields of aesthetics, art, design, culture, etc.]
[執筆 (美学・アート・デザイン等、分野横断的に)]
Lecture & workshop:
[on design philosophy and Japanese aesthetic application, etc.]
[レクチャーおよびワークショップ（デザイン哲学・日本の応用美学等）]
Between Sounds and Silences.
2023
Composition
This sound installation was created by three researchers from the cross-disciplinary fields of urban studies, journalism, and aesthetics. They conducted participatory-ethnography research to explore Art Basel through the scope of 'materiality'.
Sound is a result of interactions between material and immaterial, and human and non-human agents. In our everyday lives, people are used to some sounds and filter them out. Recording allows them to pay attention to all the sounds in our environment equally.
After the recording, the sounds were carefully analysed and sorted into several categories: people, artworks, objects, music, natural beings, and silence. The categorised sounds were mixed and blended so that they interacted with each other.
Through a sensory-focused process, using explorative analysis, a statement was executed, which is the following:
Re-claiming the sense of hearing reforms the human-capital-centric hierarchy in Art Basel and creates a human and non-human relationship in which they equally belong.
The audiences were invited to the fresh green park at the University of Basel on a sunny cosy day. They were welcomed to walk around, sit on the grass, close their eyes, or do anything else they wanted during the 5-minute piece.
Taxonomy of the Sounds of Art Basel
Visualisation of Interaction of the Sounds
Co-researched and Composed by Amelie Rywalski, Olga Voiushina, & Sakumi Yamaguchi.
Special thanks to Ibrahim Kombarji, Hanxiao Yang, Jumanah Abbas, & Fabrizio Furiassi.
Collection of Haikus.
2023
Fieldwork directed by Michael Kaethler, Poem composed by Transdisciplinary Design Team,
Zine lay-outed by Daniela Santillan Nunez, and Session facilitated, Translated & Witten by Sakumi Yamaguchi.
