Art/Cultural Production:
[as an outcome of generative research]
[アート、文化的制作（創出型リサーチの成果物として）]
Collaboration Facilitation:
[between international sectors and Japanese sectors]
[協業の促進（日本と海外間つなぎ目役として）]
Writing:
[in the multi-fields of philosophy, art, design, culture, etc.]
[執筆（哲学、アート、デザイン、文化等、多分野にて）]
Lecture:
[on design philosophy and Japanese aesthetics, etc.]
[レクチャー（デザイン哲学および日本の美学等）]
Between Sounds and Silences.
2023
Composition
This is a sound installation as a research outcome from 'The Materiality of Art Fairs: Art Basel' in the AA school programme.
This soundscape was executed by 3 researchers from the multidisciplinary fields of urban studies, journalism, and culture and design. They conducted participatory-ethnography research to explore Art Basel through a 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, that 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 Translated & Witten by Sakumi Yamaguchi.
In Other Words.
2024
Your world is how you live.
Bridging the emerging lenses of mobility in today’s European world and the (Japanese) philosophy of Zen, this short essay offers a reflective moment of one’s way of being in the world.
Why does it matter?
It is because knowing oneself is the start of true engagement with the world.
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Witten by Sakumi Yamaguchi. Special thanks to Costanza Milano.
