Online Project Documentation “Touching Kiwa”

KIWA Project aims to create platforms for creation and dialogue through observing the relationships between urban images and “constructed nature” from overall the world from the Japanese perspective of “Fudo (climate)”.
In this video, Unreleased moving images for the audio-visual performance “Touching Kiwa” were re-edited and Sachiko Nagata’s performance of Hamon (iron slit drums) was newly recorded. Through a beautiful co-creation between moving images and sound performance seems to travel between real and imagined scenery.It contains photographic and video materials taken in Japan and abroad, pictures from the rehearsal for the audio-visual performance “At the Kiwa”,and the voices of the project members newly recorded.

Dialogues | Tomoko Mukai / Sachiko Nagata / Sven Hirsch

Plan and moving images | Tomoko Mukai
Sound Composition and Performance | Sachiko Nagata
Videography, editing, lighting | Takuma Kamaishi
Audio recording | Takuma Kamaishi / Sven Hirsch
Design | Yuri Yoshida
Text editing | Minori Shimazaki
Photography | Taisuke Yajima
English Translation Supervision | Nick Faulkner, EST Holdings
The Executive Committee of KIWA Project

In cooperation with Soto Zen Tochoji Temple, Hibikinada Biotope, NS Wind Power Hibiki Co.,Ltd.

This documentation video work is granted by a support program of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government “Yell for Art !”.

©2020 The Executive Committee of KIWA Project