Ryoko Akama resides in Huddersfield, UK. Her works sculpt domestic appliances and scrap wastes with invisible energy, especially interested in heat, magnetism and gravity, into kinetic contraptions. Her site-specific works infuse both aural / visual occurrence as one entity, creating ephemeral situations that magnify undefinable relationships between noise and silence, time and space. Her recent artistic practice examines architectural awareness, immigration ecology and conflict, cultural fluidity, relativity of livings.

She is an artistic director for ame c.i.c., supporting DIY culture and underground art/music scene. She also co-runs the independent publisher mumei publishing.

For Göteborg Art Sounds 2024 she is performing ‘untold nostalgia’. This is a new solo performance piece coming out of the project she pursued over the summer 2024, un(an)kN-O-wn. Scattering around field recordings and noises via various amplifiers in a space, the work investigates how fact, experience and memory are complicatedly intertwined and remembered.

Other selected installations include: in.visible (The Art House, 2023, UK), divulgence (Donaueschinger Musiktage, 2023, Germany), not a matter but it really matters (Lo Pati, 2022, Spain), inefficient ways to comprehend the matter (Exhoraum, 2022, Austria), the way they are (Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2019, UK), composition of happiness (Spanien19C, 2019, Denmark), kosetsu (Stedelijk Museum, 2019, Amsterdam), ploughs and harrows (Konfrontation Festival, 2018, Austria), listening with the city (Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, 2018, Germany), odds and ends (Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, 2018, Poland), loiner or (Industrial Museum of Leeds, 2018, UK), Object Migration (Avant Art Festival + Sanatorium Dź wię ku, 2017, Poland) and 1→ 5 (Uppsala Art Museum, 2016, Sweden).

 

Links:

ryokoakama.com

 

Note: All guests must be 20 years or older and have a valid ID

Ryoko Akama shares the venue and night with Ann Rosén. Two concerts in one place, for one ticket!