Current Residents YOICHI KAMIMURA
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Field recording drift ice in the Sea of Okhotsk, 2020. Photo by Takehito Koganezawa
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Yoichi Kamimura, "Floating Life", sound installation view in a solo exhibition "awai" Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo, 2022. Photo by Kenji Takahashi
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Field recording in the Amazon Rainforest, 2023. Photo by Ingrid Weyland
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Sound Performance with Ōtal in Reykjavik, Iceland in 2022.
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Field recording at Vatnajökull Glacier in southern Iceland in 2022. Photo by Ella Medicus.
Kamimura explores the inner and spiritual connections that exist between humans and nature through field recordings, using a process he has described as an act of “Meditative Hunting.” In recent years, he has conducted research on various natural phenomena, including the drift ice in Shiretoko, glaciers in Iceland, the Amazon rainforest, and Iguazú Falls, the world’s largest waterfall. Based on this research, he has presented immersive sound installations, paintings, performances, and audio works both domestically and internationally.
My project involves a research-based artistic practice centered on field recording, conducted within environments shaped by the retreat of ancient glaciers that once blanketed the entire Scandinavian Peninsula until approximately 10,000 years ago. The primary research sites include the natural surroundings of Lake Saimaa—the largest lake in Finland—and the Saimaa ringed seal, an endangered species that became isolated from other subspecies during post-glacial land uplift and continues to inhabit the lake as a living remnant of that epochal transformation. These landscapes will be approached as “glacial relics,” resonant with deep time and geological memory.