Yamauchi Shota
Artist. Yamauchi Shota’s work explores the relationship between the self and the world as well as cracks in reality and fantasy. With a focus on the relationship between the self and the world, his transmedia artistic practice encompasses moving image, sculpture, performance, and installations that use smell.
Year Selected
2025
Project
Encounters with the Unknown
Summary
What is the unknown? Starting from that question, this project envisages new forms of human-to-humanoid communication that do not rely on conventional linguistic frameworks. Intended as an outdoor installation, the project provides encounters with the unknown—that is, encounters with a new nature. The process of producing the project is also made publicly accessible through demonstrations and lectures by the artist. From envisioning the unknown future, the project fosters an imagination capable of creating the commons to come.
Profile
Yamauchi Shota
Artist
Born in 1992, Yamauchi Shota completed graduate studies in new media at Tokyo University of the Arts. He explores the relationship between the self and the world as well as the cracks that open up in reality and fantasy. In addition to moving image, sculpture, and performance, his transmedia practice has recently encompassed installations that use smell.
Art Incubation Program
One of CCBT’s core programs, the Art Incubation Program provides opportunities for creative talent to undertake new projects and makes those processes accessible to the public, facilitating forms of artistic expression, exploration, and action that change our city for the better. Selected through an open call, five artist fellows will act as CCBT partners, developing their projects, making the creative process public, exhibiting the results, and holding workshops and talks.
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