voice & visual artist
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Ami Yamasaki is a voice and visual artist. She uses her ears, vocal cords and skin to perceive her own voice and the echoes it makes. Using a method similar to echolocation to recognize a space, she transforms this space through a type of acoustic shading. Through her performances and installations, she questions how the world is made and how the human body is extended through listening. In recent years she has focused on collaborating with scientists, and in 2023 she joined Fundamentalz, a program sponsored by the Japan Association for Science and Technology Communication to initiate dialogue with Japanese scientists.
She was a fellow of the Asian Cultural Council (2017), and the Japan Foundation Asia Center (2018). She exhibited and performed at Setouchi International Art Festival (2019), ”WAYS OF TELLING" (Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery, 2021), “Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting”(BankART KAIKO, 2021), “KYOTO STEAM 2022 International Art Competition" (Kyoto Kyocera Museum of Art, 2022), and " JAPAN. BODY_PERFORM_LIVE" (Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, 2022), “Manga Scroll” at Christian Marclay “Translating”(Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2022), Groundbreaking Ceremony (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2022). In 2023, she was awarded the G&A Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize for "Whisper travels and whisper to you again" which is in the permanent collection of the foundation and on permanent display at the Minos Palace.
山崎阿弥 やまさき・あみ
声のアーティスト、美術家。自らの発声とその響きを耳・声帯・皮膚で感受し、エコロケーション（反響定位）に近い方法を用いて空間を認識する。空間が持つ音響的な陰影をパフォーマンスやインスタレーションによって変容させることを試みながら、世界がどのように生成されているのかを問い、科学者とのコラボレーションに力を入れている。2023年には科学技術広報研究会主催「ファンダメンタルズ」に参加し日本の科学者との対話をスタートした。ACC、国際交流基金アジアセンターフェロー、瀬戸内国際芸術祭2019、「語りの複数性」（東京都渋谷公園通りギャラリー、2021）、「YPAM 横浜国際舞台芸術ミーティング」（BankART KAIKO、2021）「KYOTO STEAM 2022国際アートコンペティション」(京都市京セラ美術館、2022)、「JAPAN. BODY_PERFORM_LIVE」（ミラノ現代美術館、イタリア、2022）ほか、クリスチャン・マークレー「トランスレーティング」での「マンガ・スクロール」歌唱（江之浦測候所、東京都現代美術館, 2021/2022）、Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden起工式での歌唱(2022)など。2023年にはG&A Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize受賞によりインスタレーション《Whisper travels and whisper to you again》が同財団のパーマネントコレクションとなりMinos Palaceにて永久展示されている。
Curriculum Vitae (summarized)
Award
2023 G & A Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize
2022 Finalist: KYOTO STEAM 2022 International Art Competition, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
2016 Grand Prix: The 4th Annual 500-m Underground Walkway Gallery Award, Sapporo
2015 Encouragement Prize: Tokyo Experimental Festival vol.09 (Sound Installation Section)
Tokyo Wonder Site / Institute of Contemporary Art and International Cultural Exchanges, Tokyo
(Currently known as Tokyo Arts and Space)
Grant / Fellowship
2021 Arts For the Future, Agency for Cultural Affairs Japan
2020 Support for Continuing Cultural and Artistic Activities, Agency for Cultural Affairs Japan
2020 The COVID-19 Emergency Grant (Contemporary Art), Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation
2018 Japan Foundation Asia Center Asian Fellow
2016 Japan-United States Arts Program Asian Cultural Council Saison Foundation
Education
Sociology, faculty of law and letters, the department of humanities, Ehime University
Degree: Bachelor
Qualification
Curator
Artist in Residence
■31 May to 29 November, 2018
Japan Foundation Asia Center Asian Fellow, Philippines
■February, 2018
RhizomeDC, Washington DC, U.S.
■July 2017 to March 2018
Japan-United States Arts Program Asian Cultural Council Saison Foundation
■November 13-19, 2017
■3 to 22 October, 2016
Artist in School Program at Sapporo Municipal Kojo elementary school, Hokkaido, Japan
■11 September to 20 December, 2013
Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori Public College, Aomori, Japan
Artist in Residence Program 2013 / Autumn
■12 August to 2 September, 2013
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, Australia
The RMIT University School of Art International Artist in Residence Program – iAIR
Selected performances
2023 Gulbenkian Japanese Season 2023, Centro de Arte Moderna, Portugal
2023 Biennale Son, Switzerland
2023 Music Hall PICNIC, Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall, Kanagawa, Japan
2022 Groundbreaking Ceremony,Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of Smithonian, D.C.,U.S.
2022 NIGHT AND LIGHT, Nagoya Castle, Aichi, Japan
2021 “JAPAN. BODY_PERFORM_LIVE”, opening performance, Padiglione D'Arte Contemporanea, Italy
2020 “#leap2live”, online performance series, Tokyo, Japan
2020 Shibuya Innovation Week / Shibuya New Normal Experiment, several places in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
2020 Born Creative Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Theater, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Global Ring Grand Opening Performance w. Yoshihide Otomo, Ikebukuro West Gate Park, Tokyo, Japan
2019 “Myth – Harmony of Gods” w. Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, The Kanazawa Theatre, Ishikawa, Japan
2019 Charlie Collins 50th Anniversary Concert, Iklectik (London), Access Space (Sheffield), UK
2019 “Ami Yamasaki Live Performance”, Aller Park Studios in Dartington, Devon, UK
2019 “Plnka”, Fuga, Bratislava
2019 Music Unlimited Festival#33, Alter Schlachthof, Wels, Austria
2019 “Insular Membrane” Setouchi Triennale 2019, Kagawa, Japan
2019 “ONGAKU” by Thin Edge New Music Collective, 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture, Toronto, Canada
2018 Winter Solstice, Enoura Observatory, Kanagawa, Japan
2018 VIVA EXCON 2018 CAPIZ, Roxas City, Philippines
2018 TTM: IGNITION BOX “EXTREAM QUIET VILLAGE” vol.3, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo
2018 JAZZ ART Sengawa, Sengawa Theatre, Tokyo, Japan
2018 World Listening Day 2018, Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila, Philippines
2018 Stone x Rothenberg x Yamasaki, Issue Project Room, NY, U.S.
2018 Residency at The Stone : Ryuichi Sakmoto, The Stone at the New School, NY, U.S.
2018 “SURFACE” , Westbeth Artists Community, mhPROJECTnyc, NY, U.S.
2018 The 2018 Composers Now Festival Opening Event, The Jazz Gallery, NY, U.S.
2018 Daniel Neumann "CHANNEL" closing concert, Fridman Gallery, NY, U.S.
2017 Intermedia Festival w. Yasunao Tone, Phill Niblock Studio, NY, U.S.
2017 Sundays on Broadway, Cathy Weis Project, NY, U.S.
2017 Human Festival #01, Icebox project space, Philadelphia, U.S.
2017 “Making It”, w. Jim Strong, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, U.S.
2017 AMUSE Concert ”SETOUCHI THE MOVIE”, Naoshima Hall, Kagawa, Japan
2017 “re:cite” Closing concert for “Signs of Voices” w. Ko Ishikawa, Morishige, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
2016 Arts Council Tokyo Open Lab, w. Harumichi Saito, SHIBAURA HOUSE, Tokyo, Japan
2016 “Sounds to Summon the Japanese Gods Japan Society, NY, U.S.
2016 “Planeting” w. Akiko Nakayama, GALAXCITY, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Contemporary Kagura “Kame no Otonahi”, Sumiyoshi Shrine, Fukuoka, Japan
2015 The 6th School of Engineering and The 52nd School of Information Science and Technology Colloquium
“New Approaches to Live Media, Vocalism and Japanese Traditional Instrumentation ”Live Performance, Chukyo University, Aichi, Japan
2015 Trans Arts Tokyo “Dream in Firelight” w.Takuzo Kubikukuri, Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, Japan
2015 “Sayoko Yamaguchi The Wearist, Clothed in the Future”, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2015 JCDN Odorini-Ikuze!! vol.5 “To day”, Sapporo/Sendai/Hakata/Kobe/Tokyo, Japan
2015 “Playing with Sound” w. Akio Suzuki, kanabun, Kyoto, Japan
2014 “Crossroads Silence” w. Norimizu Ameya, Lady Jane, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Whenever Wherever Festival “Magic square and summon”,Saison Foundation Morishita studio, Tokyo, Japan
2014 “Music as film” directed by Kei Shichiri, UPLINK FACTORY, Tokyo, Japan
2013 “Violence and Form Parade in Me”, CIQ plaza, Kanagawa, Japan
2012 Trans Arts Tokyo “Burning Shadow of a Man” Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, Japan
2012 glasio bluo “yes, me”, YES Theater and refugee camps, Hebron, Palestine
2010 “DANCE 2000 FESTIVAL” w. Makoto Matsushima, Theatre ZERO, Seoul, Korea
2010 “Spring Storm” w. Keiji Haino, Lady Jane, Tokyo, Japan
2007 “crossing vision “, Italian Cultural Institute, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Okihiki ritual, Ise Shrine, Mie, Japan
Selected group exhibitions
2023 G. & A. Mamidakis Foundation Art Prize, Minos Palace, Greece
2021 “JAPAN. BODY_PERFORM_LIVE”, Padiglione D'Arte Contemporanea, Italy
2021 "WAYS OF TELLING" Tokyo Koen-Dori Gallery, Tokyo
2020 “Kanji Musica”, Kanji Museum, Kyoto, Japan
2016 “GHOST”, Zuiun-an, Kyoto, Japan
2016 The 4th Annual Sapporo Odori 500-m Underground Walkway Gallery Award, Sapporo, Japan
2015 “SAPPORO ART STAGE 2015”, Chikaho, Sapporo, Japan
2014 Tokyo Experimental Festival vol.9 “till a quiet room sings”, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo, Japan
2013 “Exchange –planting a seed-”, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan
Selected solo exhibitions
2018 “The First Question” mono8, Manila, Philippines
2018 “f/weather”, RhizomeDC, DC, U.S.
2017 “A SPACE WHERE YOU WRITE A LETTER”, HOSPITALE, Tottori, Japan
2016 “Signs of Voices” , Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
2015 “My Vehicle”, Gallery YUME, Tokyo, Japan
2013 The Quiet Addition to The Sonic City 2013 and BLINDSIDE Sound Series “a day, unsung”, BLINDSIDE, invited by Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, Australia
2012 “[DUO_coffee shop] with Theo”, Roji to Hito, Tokyo, Japan
2009 “wind place”, GENDAI HEIGHTS Gallery Den, Tokyo, Japan
2008 “HIKARI -the light-“, temporary alternative space, Tokyo, Japan
2006 “everyday I die, everyday I'm born”, Ogawacho Gallery , Tokyo, Japan
2003 “windows of my heart”, INAX Gallery , Ishikawa, Japan
Selected Workshop
2023 Work for Ears, Guest lecturing for Nao Yoshigai's class (Video Dance) , Tokyo Zokei University
2021 Walk by Ears, ART THINKING WEEK, QWS, Tokyo
2021 ACTIVITY PALETTE, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2021 UNSEEN (online), Slovakia Art Council, Slovakia
2020 Voice, Disability services & support organisation in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan
2019 “ONGAKU” by Thin Edge New Music Collective, CMC Chalmers Performance Space, Toronto, Canada
2018 “Think”, Filamer Christian University, Roxas City, Philippines
2018 “World Listening Day”, Casa San Miguel, Zambales, Philippines
2017 “Laboratry of expandability in our bodies” Arts Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
2015 “listen – to know by ears”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2015 “erase, and draw” Chikaho (underground space for the pedestrians), Sapporo, Japan
2014 NPO Tanpopo-no-ye Foundation, Nara, Japan
2013 “Call for sound” Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori, Japan
2010 Puppet work shop for teachers, YES theater, Hebron, Palestine
2010 Dance workshop with sound w. Makoto Matsushima, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea
Artist Talk and Presentation
2020 NIKKEI COMEMO “School of Art Thinking #00”, hoops link tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2019 “To hear inside, to hear outside” w. Issho Fujita, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
2019 “Life of Animal II”, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
2018 VIVA Excon 2018 Capiz, Ang Panublion, Roxas City, Philippines
2016 TED x Tokyo yz “Mankind”, Uchida Yoko, Tokyo, Japan
2016 SONY Life Space UX “Song of glass, forest of echo” B&B, Tokyo, Japan
2016 Music Show and Tell, CAI02, Hokkaido, Japan
2015 The 6th School of Engineering and The 52nd School of Information Science and Technology Colloquium “New Approaches to Live Media, Vocalism and Japanese Traditional Instrumentation ”Live Performance, Chukyo University, Aichi, Japan
Research Project
2018 For the new possibilities of collaboration : research, experiment and practice in Philippines
Japan Foundation Asia Center Asian Fellow, Philippines
2017 – 2018 Research on the poetry scene and the art forms in a wide range of disciplines, and to conduct interviews with artists, curators, and locals in New York City, Japan-United States Arts Program/ACC Saison Foundation Fellow
2017 Interview and filming project “Black Cloth Poetry”, Manila, Philippines
2014– 2015 Traveling Research Laboratory, Arts Council Tokyo, Japan
Film and TV Drama Appearance
2019 Voice: National Geographic Documentary “Kingdom of the White Wolf” by Ronan Donovan, U.S.
2018 Voice effect: “My Tyrano: Together, Forever”, Kōbun Shizuno, Japan, South Korea, China
2018 Voice: ”SETOUCHI THE MOVIE”, AMUSE INC., Yokichi Osato, Japan
2017 Narrator and voice: NHK 90th Anniversary Drama on TV “MORIBITO Ⅱ”, Japan
2017 Voice and perform: "Sanctuary at Sanctuary City" by Miah Artola, NY, U.S.
2017 Documentary film: “ENCOUNTERS WITH SILENCE”, by Janus Victoria, Japan , Philippines
2016 Sound: “Orange Trill” by Georg Anthony Svatek, NY, U.S.
2015 Voice: “Salome’s Daughter”, Kei Shichiri, Japan
2014 Voice: “The Imagination of Kanazawa Castle” by DRAWING AND MANUAL, Ishikawa, Japan
2011 Voice: “Vessels” by Koya Takahashi, Tokyo,Japan
First Prize (13th TBS Digicon6 Awards), Mayor’s Prize (Yamagata Movie Festival 2011),
Design Award (Tokyo University of the Arts)
Composition and Appearance by Recordings
2018 “You Are Unwanted, Yet, You Radiate”, E-Waste Warehouse, NY, U.S.
2018 Preinstalled music for Phone Application “Fields”, Planeta NY, U.S.
2018 “pan-terrestrial people’s anthem” by Andrew Demirjian, harvestworks, NY, U.S.
2018 Music for SHISEIDO THE STORE by Shuta Hasunuma, Pioneer Works, NY, U.S.
2016 “Selvagem” by Mariano Marovatto, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2015 Opening theme for "dressing room" written by Kunio Shimizu, directed by Naoko Ema, Tokyo, Japan.
2013 “SOYOGI” by Masakazu Uehata, UNAMAS, Tokyo, Japan
2012 Theme song for mobile library at disaster-stricken area, Shanti Volunteer Association, Tokyo, Japan
Radio Appearance
2018 WFMU “Vocal Fry”, by Dan Bodah, NJ, U.S.
2016 WNYC ”New Sounds #3919” by John Schaefer, NY, U.S.
2016 WKCR, Columbia University, NY, U.S.
Statement:
Always be concrete.
Always be direct.
Though convey with lyricism.
For its purpose, never fear solitude.
常に具体的であること
常に直裁であること
でも、それらを詩情によって伝えること
そのために独りであること
