AMI
YAMASAKI / MICHAEL SMITH-WELCH
SURFACE
A site-specific installation / performance
“If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life?” - Joseph Blanco White
Linked to the world by light, the world comes to us by way of reflection and shadow. Through installation and performance, artist/vocalist Ami Yamasaki appears as Kōshi* (光子, or “Photon”), a fragment of light making its way through the world. Playing with space, movement, and voice, SURFACE depicts the life of Kōshi, exploring Kōshi’s paradoxical nature as both particle and wave and revealing the outer world not as something superficial, but as something to be embraced and celebrated. SURFACE chronicles the life of Kōshi through experimentation and play.
The mhProject performances (Fridays, Saturdays) amplify reflecting light and voice to reveal meaning in a world of appearances. In a special set of follow-up Sunday performances (invite-only, location TBA), the birth of Kōshi is revealed through explorations with shadow. Join us early at mhProject for some social time and some experiments with light.
SURFACE
A site-specific installation / performance
“If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life?” - Joseph Blanco White
Linked to the world by light, the world comes to us by way of reflection and shadow. Through installation and performance, artist/vocalist Ami Yamasaki appears as Kōshi* (光子, or “Photon”), a fragment of light making its way through the world. Playing with space, movement, and voice, SURFACE depicts the life of Kōshi, exploring Kōshi’s paradoxical nature as both particle and wave and revealing the outer world not as something superficial, but as something to be embraced and celebrated. SURFACE chronicles the life of Kōshi through experimentation and play.
The mhProject performances (Fridays, Saturdays) amplify reflecting light and voice to reveal meaning in a world of appearances. In a special set of follow-up Sunday performances (invite-only, location TBA), the birth of Kōshi is revealed through explorations with shadow. Join us early at mhProject for some social time and some experiments with light.
SURFACE I: reflection
January 12, 13, 19, 10
7pm and 8pm
January 12, 13, 19, 10
7pm and 8pm
SURFACE II: shadow
January 14, 21
7:30 – 8pm
January 14, 21
7:30 – 8pm
AMI
YAMASAKI is a vocalist and
multimedia artist from Tokyo. Her work is diverse and prolific, creating
installations, performances, and films in a variety of settings, most recently
as part of the performance “Sounds to Summon the Japanese Gods” at the Japan
Society of New York. Solo performances include “Signs of Voices” (2016, Kyoto
Art Center, Japan), “Voice, Boundary, Gravity”(2017, Cathy Weis
Project),“Experimental Intermedia 2017”(played with Yasunao Tone, curated by
Phill Niblock). She has participated in numerous group shows, including “Tokyo
Experimental Festival 9” (2014, Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan), “Exchange-planting a
seed” (2013, Aomori Contemporary Art center, Japan) and “Sonic City 2013 Liquid
Architecture” (2013, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia). She frequently collaborates, working with
Keiji Haino, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Yasunao Tone. She has lead workshops at The
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, Arts Maebashi, and Sapporo City Kojo
School, as well as a variety of television and film appearances, including
narration and voice for “MORIBITO Ⅱ” (NHK, 2017) and Hayao Miyazaki’s latest
short film, Ghibli (2017). She
presented at TEDx Tokyo in 2016. Currently she is a 2017 Asian Cultural Council
fellow based in New York City.
http://amingerz.wixsite.com/ami-yamasaki
MICHAEL SMITH-WELCH is a transdisciplinary artist interested in materials and environments that inspire playful experimentation and iterative design. He works with a range of materials, including electronics, computation, mechanics, light, sound, music, video, wood and cardboard. A former research assistant at MIT’s Media Lab, Michael currently designs environments and public engagement programs at the Hirshhorn Museum, the Smithsonian’s museum of contemporary art in Washington, DC. He is also a founding member of RhizomeDC, an experimental art, learning and culture/performance space in Washington, DC.
http://deviceofmind.net
http://amingerz.wixsite.com/ami-yamasaki
MICHAEL SMITH-WELCH is a transdisciplinary artist interested in materials and environments that inspire playful experimentation and iterative design. He works with a range of materials, including electronics, computation, mechanics, light, sound, music, video, wood and cardboard. A former research assistant at MIT’s Media Lab, Michael currently designs environments and public engagement programs at the Hirshhorn Museum, the Smithsonian’s museum of contemporary art in Washington, DC. He is also a founding member of RhizomeDC, an experimental art, learning and culture/performance space in Washington, DC.
http://deviceofmind.net