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. The project will result in an outdoor performance and installation, limning the moment when an unknown entity and human intersect. The unknown entity appears in the form of light and sound, as if alive in the park, and the human body gradually resonates with the light until nonverbal communication eventually begins. As the audience witnesses this process, they encounter a moment when the boundaries of existence blur.
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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