Yutaka Makino
dal 8/12/2011 al 21/1/2012
Segnalato da
8/12/2011
Yutaka Makino
Daad Galerie, Berlin
The Conditions of the Process. In his works, Makino creates situations that demand that the visitor go beyond raw acoustics. In particular, space is a crucial element in his work. Also in this new installation the effects of light and space are arranged on equal footing with the acoustics of the piece: darkness and silence, light and sound.
We experience sound with our entire bodies, Yutaka Makino once explained. The ear is only a
part of the physiological apparatus with which we perceive sound. In his works, Makino creates
situations that demand that the visitor go beyond raw acoustics. In particular, space is a crucial
element in his work. Also in his new work, The Conditions of the Process, the effects of light
and space are arranged on equal footing with the acoustics of the piece: darkness and silence, light
and sound.
The Conditions of the Process addresses concepts that were developed in the 70s by artists such as
Robert Irwin. In these works situations are illuminated from a phenomenological perspective. The
borders between the frames, the circumstances external to the work, and the work itself are
permeable. The visitors, says Makino about the central idea of his work, experience situations not
as a collective but as an individual. Makino himself reinforces not the shared qualities but rather
the differences of experiences instead, not to position the visitor of the exhibition at the middle of a
certain experience but the possibility of an experience in general. The visitor is an existential part
of this situation: without him/her The Conditions of the Process is incomplete.
Text by Björn Gottstein
Yutaka Makino was born in 1976 in Japan, and in 2010 he was a guest of the Berlin artist-in-
residency program of the DAAD. Active primarily in the field of computer music, Yutaka Makino also
uses installation and performance to explore the various dimensions of human perception. On the
basis of his investigations into spatial perception and new methods of sound synthesis, his works
make use of concepts inspired by his current research into areas such as phenomenology,
experimental psychology and complex dynamic systems. Makino’s recent installations and
performances provide environments in flux to experience shifting modes of perception.
Image: The Conditions of the Process, daadgalerie, 2011 © Yutaka Makino
Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD
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Opening: Friday, 9 December 2011, 7-9pm
daadgalerie
Zimmerstr. 90/ 91 10117 Berlin
Tue-Sun noon-7pm
Closed 24 until 26 Dec 2011 as well as 31 Dec 2011 and 1 Jan 2012