PROFILE
Tomoko Mukai | Concept and Installation
Tomoko Mukai engages with cultural and spatial projection through computer-generated optical landscapes. Her approach aims to provide intuitive experiences focusing on complex relationships between information, memory and bodily perception shared in social life. She has presented them at various kinds of sites as cultural and historical hubs in local communities like Tokyo National Museum, Kaneiji Temple, “Kashiwa-yu Dori” on the street, Yanaka area (Tokyo) , Hofu Shrine, Ichinosaka-gawa River (Yamaguchi), Trinitatis Church, St. Gertrud (Germany). She emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration with other different fields of professionals. In such collaborations, she fosters to stride across the boundary of platforms for expressions between different genres. Since 2023, she begann to develop spatial installation with text and natural objects
Sachiko Nagata | Percussionist, Improvisational musical performance
Sachiko Nagata came from a musical family, and she was brought up with western music. After she graduated from Percussion Department, Tokyo University of the Arts and started her career as a professional percussionist of classic music. Then, being driven by her inner desire, Nagata tried variety styles and types of music from ethnic music, creative music by iron or bamboo, improvisational music and others. The current destination after this long and wandering journey, she has found the world of my own sound when she encountered a unique musical instrument, ‘hamon’ in 1997. All kinds of music that Nagata has experienced are consolidated in it.
Prof. Dr. Sven Hirsch | Curation and KIWA Dialogue
Prof. Dr Sven Hirsch is a researcher and lecturer in the field of complex biomedical systems, based in Zurich and Cologne. He graduated with a doctoral thesis in laser physics and holds a post gradual degree in audiovisual media from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM). He heads the biomedical simulation research group and the ZHAW Digital Health Lab at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). He is active in future research since 2008 with the focus on quantitative foresight methods, modeling, future of technology, future of energy. As an artist (Sven Mann) he exhibited internationally at museums and media art festivals. He is the responsible science curator at the Stiftung Insel Hombroich.
GUEST
Gustavo Gomes | Bodily Performance
Gustavo Gomes is a choreographer, performance and film artist. With choreographic works presented in venues and festivals such as Art Basel – Parcours, Schauspielhaus Köln, Ludwig Museum, Frankfurt Lab, Tanzfaktur, Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, Hellerau, PiK Deutz, KOLUMBA Museum, Watou Art Festival, VRHAM Festival Hamburg, Atelierfrankfurt, Quartier am Hafen and others. He has been creating with dance companies such as Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company/Jacopo Godani, Ballet of Difference/Richard Siegal and Osnabrück Tanz Theater. Gomes’ approach is in the investigation of speech though dance as well as the incorporation of body into the new thresholds of theatre. His films creates a dialog between framed image, rituals and the metaphysics of representation.
PROJECT STAFFS
Editor (German and English)| Paul Hirsch
Editor (Japanese)| Minori Shimazaki
Photography (Documentation)| Mia ter Horst
Videography (Documentation) | Joshua Martin
Project Assistant | Frida Hirsch