Record environmental sounds at home with a cassette tape, and replay the recording in a gallery. Then, simultaneously record the replayed and environmental sounds in the gallery, and replay them again. Repeat this over and over. Record, which is exhibited by Ken-ichiro Ina in “AFFAIR & PRACTICE · BY 12” organized by the Bikyoto Revolution Committee in 1973, includes the above simple operations. “Each time sounds were superposed on outdoor sounds, the later gradually became drowned. At last, it came to be chaotic noises with swells.

It appears that the process of repeating the recording and replaying sounds at the same place was shared by young artists in the same generation as Ina in Tokyo. Etsuro Kawamura’s Image-on No.3: Concert, Concert recorded and replayed the music of the Rolling Stones with environmental sounds. In Tetsuya Watanabe’s Climax No.1, six performers repeatedly pronounced these letters. “Na, Mi, U, Tsu, Na, Mi [Wavering Wave],” shifting one letter from the previous performer. If you expand your field of view, you could find the method of repeating recordings and replaying them across the world in this period. Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting in a Room (1969) comes readily to my mind.

From Tomotaro Kaneko, “A desire for the fluid: Ken-ichiro Ina, record“

January 14th-20th, 2018　Art & Space Cococara

Exhibition
Ken-ichiro Ina, record, 1973/2018
Ken-ichiro Ina, immature plane 12-110, 2012

Text｜Ken-ichiro Ina / Tomotaro Kaneko
Talk｜Ken-ichiro Ina / Minoru Hatanaka / Tomotaro Kaneko
Sound Recording｜Makoto Oshiro
Photograph｜Ryo Fujishima
Leaflet Design｜Tadao Kawamura

Leaflet
Ken-ichiro Ina, “Reproduction after 45 years: something that is produced again”, 2018
Tomotaro Kaneko, “A desire for the fluid: Ken-ichiro Ina, record“, 2018

Cassette Edition
Kenichiro Ina, Staying / Walking, 1972

1947　Born in Nerima, Tokyo

1972　Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, Department of Fine Arts, Painting Course

Selected Solo Exhibition (from 1972)

From 1972, Sato Gallery, Kobayashi Gallery, Tokiwa Gallery, Gallery Hinoki, Gallery Gen, and many others

1990　Various angles 25, Kawasaki IBM Citizen’s Cultural Gallery, Kanazawa

1994　”Inquiring the Origin:1970s Art”, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo

2008　Gallery Hinoki, Tokyo (’10, ’11, ’12, ’14, ’16)

Selected Group Exhibition (from the 1970s)

1969-70　“Psychophysiology Laboratory” by sending mails once in a month (6 times)

1970　“Summer Exhibition”, Art & Project, Amsterdam

1971　“Words and Images”, Pinar Galleries, Tokyo

1973　“AFFAIR & PRACTICE · BY 12”, Pinar Galleries, Tokyo

“Kyoto Biennale”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto

1975　“AFFAIR & PRACTICE · WHY IT”, Contemporary Culture Center, Tokyo

1988　“Color Emission”, Gallery Hinoki, Tokyo

“Paintings Crossing the Sea of Desire”, Kawasaki Municipal Gallery, Kanagawa, etc.

1991　“Line in Contemporary Art: The Destination of Eyes and Hands”, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Saitama

1993　“Reconstructed and Quotation”, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo

1998　“New Vision Saitama: Some Things Disappear but Others Take Their Place”, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Saitama

“distance no.19: Naoyuki Kitta x Ken-ichiro Ina”, Gallery Hinoki, Tokyo

2000　“distance no.20; Shuichi Kitamura x Ken-ichiro Ina”, Gallery Hinoki, Tokyo

2007　“Exhibition De collective Van Eelen-Weeber”, Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands

“ANTI-ART NON-ART”, Getty Research Institute Exhibition Gallery, Los Angeles

2008　“Painting + Photography: Things that is seen in a painting, things that come into view in a painting”, Nerima Art Museum + Gallery Hinoki, Tokyo

2009　“1969-1970 Psychophysiology Laboratory (Archives)”, Gallery Hinoki, Tokyo

“In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in conceptual Art 1960-1976”, MoMA, New York

2010　“Categoria: The Whereabouts of Visual Image”, Gallery Hinoki, Tokyo

2013　“dialogue vol.l: Kunio Takahashi x Ken-ichiro Ina”, Gallery Hinoki plus, Tokyo

2014　“dialogue vol.ll: Shuichi Kitamura x Ken-ichiro Ina”, Gallery Hinoki plus, Tokyo

“Art and Printed Matter From the 1960s to the 1970s”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

2015　“dialogue vol.lll: Yoko Sato x Ken-ichiro Ina”, Gallery Hinoki plus, Tokyo

2016　“dialogue vol.lV: Minoru Ishimura x Ken-ichiro Ina”, Gallery Hinoki e·F, Tokyo

2017　“dialogue vol.V: Naoyuki Kitta x Ken-ichiro Ina”, Gallery Hinoki e·F, Tokyo