Aki Sasamoto (2007)
Title: (An installation view) of remembering/modifying/developing
Date: September 2008
Materials: Mixed media installation/performance
Note: Mobile Cameras hung from the ceiling move when viewers touch the objects. The TVs show live and recorded views of these camera views.
Photo credit, Tadahisa Sakurai.
Title: (A performance view) of remembering/modifying/developing
Date: September 2008
Materials: Mixed media installation/performance
Dimension: N/A
Note: Clockwise from the top left, (Grating Music Stand) (Pushing the Wall Away from the Wall) (Practicing to Leave) (Archivist) (Judge Mentals)
Photo credit, Mineo Sakata.
Title: Excerpt of remembering/modifying/developing
Date: June 2007
Materials: Video
Note: I perform everyday. The recordings by three mobile cameras in columns, and each day's performance in rows. Today's sound is recorded over the yesterday's.
Title: (Pushing the wall towards the wall) in remembering/modifying/developing
Date: January 2007
Materials: potatoes, cabinets, wheels, elastic bands, wood
Dimension: N/A
Note: I play the potatoes hung from bungee cords, as pushing this sculpture unit called Moving Wall I.
Photo credit, Arturo Vidich.
Title: (The Long Utensil) in cooking show
Date: November 2005
Materials: Metal, household items, potatoes
Dimension: 12' (length)
Note:Photo Credit, TJ Hellmuth.
Title: (A performance view) of Everything Chidambaram: Praying Project, Collaboration with Jeffrey Schiff
Date: April 2005
Materials: Improvised speech, Soap sculpture by Jeffrey Schiff, water, metal bowl
Note: I spoke my mind without breaks for hours, while washing my hands.
Photo Credit: Jeffrey Schiff.
My performance/installation works revolve around everyday gestures on nothing and everything. These installations are careful arrangements of sculpturally altered, found objects, and performance with them activates the bizarre emotion behind daily activities. I set up an improvisational system that creates feedback, responding to sound, objects, and moving bodies. Today's performance/installation builds on and shifts out of yesterday's, remembering, modifying, developing. I also co-founded and co-direct Culture Push Inc., a new arts organization, in which diverse professionals meet through artist-led projects and cross-disciplinary symposia.
