LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible... ::: tetsu shirahashi site | cattiveria ::: 白橋 哲 site | カッティベリア :::

And I went to there "insen tour : alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto" last year's end.

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"LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible ..."

"LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible ...", a new installation by Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, is a work that Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media(YCAM) has commissioned. Ryuichi Sakamoto is a musician and composer activity working world wide, while Shiro Takatani is an artist who is a leading member of the art group "Dumb Type". Their attempt at a new experimental installation in combination with sound and image has reached fruition as collaborative piece of artwork.

In producing the opera "LIFE" in 1999, Ryuichi Sakamoto attempted to examine the music of the 20th century with a macrocosmic/microcosmic view of the entire flow of art and civilization. Based on various factors of this opera, Sakamoto has shifted to the present time. The subtitle "fluid, invisible, inaudible..." connotes ideas that are perceivable or imperceptible, access to something amorphous, uncertain, or unrecognizable, and also changes in ourselves.

Those two artists' collaboration started when Shiro Takatani was responsible for image supervision in "LIFE", an opera by Ryuichi Sakamoto that was first staged in 1999. Modeled on various factors in the opera "LIFE" in 1999, their new installation work at YCAM is conceived with expressions reflecting today's world. In "LIFE - fluid, invisible, inaudible...," a new element which uses previously unused material has been included in addition to a large quantity of original material. It is an experiment to fuse sound and image as a new kind of artistic synchronization, and the artists try to get its message across to a wide variety of people in today's world.