Yoichi Uemura + Elena Tutatchikowa “Land and Beyond | Tracing the Voice of the Earth” Held from July 21st

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An exhibition created through dialogue, including a three-party stay in the field, with two artists, each of whom has been involved in the production of Shiretoko, and Yukiko Shikata, who also develops research in Shiretoko and the northern region, as guest curators.

At Pola Museum Annex (Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo), Yoichi Uemura + Elena Tutatchikowa "Land and Beyond | Tracing the Voice of the Earth" will be held from July 21st (Wednesday) to August 29th (Sunday), 2021. I will.

Uemura has worked on sound installations around the world, focusing on field recordings mainly done at sea. A wide range of activities centered on sound, such as drawing, video, and collaboration in performance, originate from the relentless attitude of trying to capture the fluid processes of the world from one's own hearing and physicality.

Through the act of walking, Tutouch Kowa has collected stories of nature and people from all over the world and developed them as installations including photographs, videos, texts, and drawings. In parallel, she holds workshops to walk with people, and also writes music and writing, and she emphasizes the process of revealing aspects of language and story beyond expression.

"Land and Beyond | Tracing the Voice of the Earth" announces the latest steps by two artists who are each involved in the land of Shiretoko and continue to produce, and at the same time, the world view that intersects with each other is the land of Shiretoko (Land). Starting from, we throw it at the viewer as something that can more universally evoke the relationship between land and people (Beyond).
This exhibition was created through dialogue including a three-party stay in the field, with Yukiko Shikata, who also develops research in Shiretoko and the northern region, as a guest curator.

Exhibition overview
Exhibition name: Yoichi Uemura + Elena Tutatchikowa "Land and Beyond | Tracing the Voice of the Earth"
Date: July 21st (Wednesday) -August 29th (Sunday), 2021 [40 days] * Open all year round: 11: 00-19: 00 (Admission until 18:30) / Admission: Free meeting place: Pola Museum Annex (3rd floor, Pola Ginza Building, 1-7-7 Ginza, Chuo-ku, 104-0061)
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* Contents are subject to change due to various circumstances. Please check the latest information on the gallery website before visiting.

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In this exhibition, 17 works including new works will be exhibited. (Uemura's work: 4 points, Totouch Kowa's work: 13 points)

"Land and Beyond | Tracing the Voice of the Earth" -Toward a New Relationship with the World

Since meeting Shiretoko in 2014, Elena Tutatchikowa has fostered a relationship between walking and thinking through her many trips and stays in the area. By spending time with people in the Minehama and Zhushuenen districts and walking repeatedly on the surrounding beaches, roads, and forests, we have reached a state where people and themselves can permeate each other. Everything, including soil, water, plants, animals, and humans, tells the story of the land in their own language, says Tutouchkova. By walking, she goes through a cycle of listening to and thinking about them, creating figures and words that are not found anywhere else.

Yoichi Uemura has felt that the world is constantly changing and flowing as he faces the sounds, lights, and scents of the sea through field recording. I have been attracted to drift ice for a long time and will visit Shiretoko for field recording in the winter of 2019. Uemura, who stands on the drift ice on a cold night and presents a microphone to the jet-black darkness, calls the act "meditational hunting." The process of spending time while sharpening your perception will be an irreplaceable experience of interacting with the surrounding nature and the drift ice that comes from afar.

"Land and Beyond | Tracing the Voice of the Earth" is the first attempt to cross the latest steps of Uemura and Tutouchkowa, who have faced Shiretoko with their own thoughts, in one space.

The harsh nature of the northern land, the rocky Shiretoko land. People, flora and fauna are lively and steadily rooted there. For Tutouchkowa, Shiretoko is a land where people and nature communicate, a field of thought, and a place where stories are generated. For Uemura, drift ice appears as an ephemeral existence "temporary earth" (Uemura) that appears in winter and disappears in spring for a while.
And its disappearance is gradually accelerating. Uemura also connects to the landfill area of Tokyo Bay, where he was born and raised the image of a "temporary land" that appears and disappears. Thinking of the "earth" from the horizon where the boundary between nature and man-made is blurred, such as global warming and landfills, we infiltrate ourselves into the gradation of audible sounds and unperceivable phenomena.

The name Shiretoko is derived from the Ainu word "Siri Etoku (the tip of the earth)" *. In the past, this area was connected to various places via the sea, and various people including Okhotsk and Ainu have nurtured the culture. Drift ice also forms in the Sea of Okhotsk from the Amur River on the continent and drifts far to Shiretoko. People and drift ice seem to be similar. All of them get here, stay for a while, and disappear someday. Various information flows continue to change in micro-macro time and space, sometimes forming. The earth will be one of them.

"Beyond" is the possibility of imaginatively going beyond the fixed concept of the earth. Not only "here and now", but also the time that leads to the past and future, and the place and existence that can be extended spatially. Uemura and Tutouchkowa each try to snuggle up to the land of Shiretoko and follow their voices. It is directed to the earth and the sea, walking and thinking, nature and man-made, and the bubbling between the perceptible and the imperceptible.

This exhibition is full of natural and artificial sounds (including waves and vibrations), the activities and voices of the people of this area, and signs and traces of existence beyond perception. It is up to each visitor to open up new possibilities for relationships with the world (Beyond) by walking around the venue and sensing and exploring them while standing at times.

(Sachiko Shikata / Curator of this exhibition)
* Also known as Siri Etoko. Sir means land and land, and etoko means tip.

Yoichi Kamimura
http://www.yoichikamimura.com

Born in Chiba prefecture in 1982. He explores ways to perceive landscapes from hearing and sight, and produces sound installations, paintings, video works, sound performances, acoustic works, etc. mainly from field recordings and presents them at home and abroad. He sees field recording as "meditational hunting" and, through his actions, considers the vague relationship between humans and nature. Sound installations consist of immersive soundscapes, often experienced through the biological sensations of humans. Completed the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Acoustic works (CD) include "re / ports" (Ftarri, 2019).

■ Major solo exhibitions
2021 "Cold tropical, hot drift ice" (Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo)
2019 “Hyperthermia——Heat Therapy” (“Emergency's! 039”, NTT Intercommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo)
"Temporary Earth" (Marueido Japan, Tokyo)
2015 "grand mother, prologue" (Space Wunderkammer, Tokyo)
2011 "Criterium 82" (Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Gallery, Ibaraki)
2010 "conductor's garden" (Omotesando Gallery, Tokyo)

■ Major group exhibitions, projects, artist-in-residence [AIR], etc.
2021 "Bilateral Exchange Program"
(Helsinki International Artist Program, Helsinki, Finland) [AIR] [Planned]
"Youth" (Yutaka Kikutake Gallery, Tokyo)
"Memory of drift ice" (Shiretoko Club, Shari, Hokkaido)
"Collision point of dimension" (The 5th Floor, Tokyo)
2020 "Sapporo International Arts Festival 2020" (Sapporo, Hokkaido) [Online]
"Hit by a sled" (The Hokkaido University Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido)
"CONNECT ⇄" (National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto / Kyoto City Kyocera Museum / ROHM Theater Kyoto, Kyoto)
"Music for Environment" (Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki)
"Michikusa Exhibition: Walking with the Unknown" (Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Gallery, Ibaraki)
"Alepathy in the Wasteland" (Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, Tokyo)
"Artist in Sirietoku Vol.14" (Shiritoko Club, Shari, Hokkaido) [AIR]
2019 "0 ℃" (NTT Intercommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo)
"The Drowned World Anchor" (Spiral, Tokyo)
"Artist in Sirietoku Vol.13" (Shiritoko Club, Shari, Hokkaido) [AIR]
2018 "Sound Research in NY" (New York, USA) [AIR]
"Trans_2017-2018 Overseas Dispatch Achievement Report Exhibition" (Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi)
2017 "2017 Season 4 Residency Artists Exhibition" (Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan) [AIR]
"Sound of Therme Vals" (Therme Vals, Vals, Switzerland) [AIR]
"Sound of Wasserhaus" (Blausee, Switzerland) [AIR]
2016 "Lago Art Residency Program" (Hamburg, Germany) [AIR]
"Universal Landscape" (Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori) [AIR]

Elena Tutatchikova
http://elenatutatchikova.com/

Born in Moscow, Russia in 1984. Interested in human landscape recognition, storytelling, and the relationship between walking and imagination. Taking walking as an expression method of making roads in the world, he continues to produce while walking and interacting with people in various places. Explore the story hidden in the land and express it with photographs, videos, sentences, drawings, etc. In addition, we regularly hold walking and map-making events. Until 2003, he studied music at the Central College of Music attached to the Moscow National Conservatory for 11 years, and then majored in Japanese literature at the Faculty of Oriental Culture and Classical Antiquity of the Russian State University for the Humanities. Completed the doctoral program at the Advanced Art Expression Area, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Doctor of Fine Arts.

■ Major solo exhibitions
2021 "Days With the Wind" Takamatsu Artist in Residence, Megijima, Takamatsu City
2020 "Walk In Progress" Kousagisha Gallery, Kyoto
2018 "The road goes through the peninsula" Multiple venues in the Shiretoko Peninsula, Shari-cho, Hokkaido "With Ice, Comes New Sun" NOMA td, Tokyo
2017 "On Teto's Trail" Gallery TRAX, Yamanashi "Hitsuji Time, North Wind, Sunny" STUDIO STAFF ONLY, Tokyo "With My Dinosaurs" kumagusuku, Kyoto "In Summer: Apples, Fossils and the Book" BOOK MARUTE, Takamatsu
2016 "In Summer: Apples, Fossils and the Book" POST, Tokyo "In Summer, With My Dinosaurs" nani, Tokyo
2015 "After an Apple Falls From the Tree, There is a Sound" POETIC SCAPE, Tokyo Tokyo Photo Month "To the Northern Shores" MUSEE F, Tokyo

■ Major group exhibitions and art festivals
2016 Ibaraki Prefecture North Art Festival, Daigo Town, Ibaraki Prefecture
2015 Beginning Shijima “In the Beginning, Silence was Always Silence” Takaro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo

■ Single work, Elena Tutatchikowa "When an apple falls from a tree, a sound is produced" torch press (Tokyo, 2016)

■ Poetry and essays
* "Waiting for low tide" (Tahi Saihate Exhibition Official Book "Poetry of the First Class" sou nice publishing, Akita, 2020)
* "Three Poems of Lost Child" ("USO Lie" rn, Tokyo, 2019)
* "Walking Imagination" ("Walking Imagination", "Walking Thinking Step 9", Editorial Department Thinking While Walking, Tokyo, 2019)
* "Walking in a foggy landscape-fieldwork, road making and imagination" (IMA special feature "Memory of the Land" No. 22, Tokyo, 2017)

■ Translation
* Makoto Ooka, "Appreciation of Contemporary Poetry 101" (co-translated with Alexander Belyaev) New Literary Observer (Moscow, 2013)
* Hideyuki Kikuchi "Yukensho" Hyperion (St. Petersburg, 2013)
* Soseki Natsume "Yume Toya" (co-translated with Evgeniya Sahalowa), Foreign Literature September issue (Moscow, 2013)

■ Main workshops
* "Shiretoko Walking Project" to be held once or twice a year in Shiretoko Peninsula, Hokkaido from 2017 (October 2020 "Following the old road of Shari", September 2018 "Beast road" Shiretoko Forest (Walking tours and talk events, etc.)
* "Kyoto Waterscapes" Elena Tutatchikowa Planning Workshop Series (Kyoto, Murin-an, etc., August 2020)
* "Listen to the sound of the river, become the sound of the river" 2-day intensive workshop and performance (Kyoto Seika University, 2019)
* A week-long intensive workshop on the theme of art practice and fieldwork
Former Chi University Faculty of Art and Design, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, 2019
* Museum Start Aiue's "Ueno! Mysterious Discovery: Artist Club"
(International Library of Children's Literature, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, 2017), etc.