Credits

WOW :
Conceptor: Yuki Tazaki
Creative Director: Takuma Nakazi
Programmer: Tomohiro Nagasaki, Shunsaku Ishinabe
Sound Engineer: Hikari Mutaguchi (White Light)

KOHTEI Project Members:
Planning: Shinshoji temple and Kohei Nawa | SANDWICH
Project management: Toshiko Ferrier of Office Ferrier
Installation: Kohei Nawa | SANDWICH with WOW
Sound: Marihiko Hara
Cooperation: NICCON and SUPER FACTORY

KOHTEI

Shinshoji Zen Museum and Gardens in the mountains | 2016
The KOHTEI art pavilion stands on the campus of Shinshoji Zen Museum and Gardens in the mountains of Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. Along with the temple’s other facilities, it is a place for visitors to contemplate the spirit of Zen through the experience of Zen practices.
There is an installation that is collaboration artwork by Kohei Nawa and WOW.

Strolling the gently sloping walkway up and entering the interior of the vessel-shaped structure through the small entrance, one finds an ocean spreading in the darkness. Viewing the shimmering lights on the quietly rippling waves in the dark silence, one can spend a meditative time. Indeed, staring at the glimmers reflected on the waves, one’s vision and auditory sense are curiously sharpened. This contemporary art installation was created in collaboration with visual design studio WOW. Today, we are constantly showered with information created with a variety of visual media. The lights and images flooding commercial areas are designed to send messages to people in an instant to whet consumer appetites. An experience of perception away from such an environment, however, can directly reach a person’s core sensibility. A meditative time/space can be experienced differently by each viewer. Although it was not my intention to express Zen directly, if viewers retain the memories of their visit here and have the opportunity to consider the sensibility and philosophy of Zen later, I would be very happy.
Nawa, K., An Architecture That Floats on Waves Surrounded by Hills. In: Shinkenchiku,ed.2016. Shinkenchiku-sha Co., Ltd. pp.74-85.

Moving images are reduced to ‘light’ by ‘waves.’ Image resolution will most probably continue its march toward greater definition, from 8K to 16K and beyond. But this work, where images are always reduced to ‘light’ no matter how high their resolution, will in all likelihood survive into the future with its intrinsic value intact. By being reduced to ‘light,’ the medium of moving images for the first time acquires reproducibility of phenomena, narrative, and permanence, despite its transient nature. This represents an essential change for expressions employing moving images, a change born out of silence and darkness, the seedbed of meditation.
(Yuki Tazaki|WOW Conceptor, Takuma Nakaji|WOW Creative Director)

Credits

WOW :
Conceptor: Yuki Tazaki
Creative Director: Takuma Nakazi
Programmer: Tomohiro Nagasaki, Shunsaku Ishinabe
Sound Engineer: Hikari Mutaguchi (White Light)

KOHTEI Project Members:
Planning: Shinshoji temple and Kohei Nawa | SANDWICH
Project management: Toshiko Ferrier of Office Ferrier
Installation: Kohei Nawa | SANDWICH with WOW
Sound: Marihiko Hara
Cooperation: NICCON and SUPER FACTORY

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