Masako + Naoyoshi, SEA FOR FLOOR, 1972 Open reel tape recorder ©Masako + Naoyoshi Photograph｜Kanji Suzuki
Masako + Naoyoshi, SEA FOR WALL, 1972 Blue print ©Masako + Naoyoshi Photograph｜Kanji Suzuki
Masako + Naoyoshi, SEA FOR ROOF, 1972 Open reel tape recorder ©Masako + Naoyoshi Photograph｜Kanji Suzuki
Masako + Naoyoshi, SEA FOR FLOOR I, II, III (A Reenactment and Development by Naoyoshi Hikosaka) Composer｜Naoyoshi Hikosaka Performers｜Naoyoshi Hikosaka / Issei Vanda / Yoshihide Namasu / Tami Yanagawa 1972/2019 Open reel tape recorder ©Naoyoshi Hikosaka Photograph｜Ryo Fujishima
Masako Shibata and Naoyoshi Hikoska unspooled an open reel tape and laid it on the wooden floor of the Kuni Chiya Buyo Kenkyujo (Kuni Chiya Dance Laboratory) in the Todai Mae Yojien (Kindergarten in front of Tokyo University). They took it out of the room and stretched it across the wall. Then, they crossed the roof, circled the building, and returned it to the room, forming a loop. The tape, which had a recording of the sound of the sea, was shared and played on two open reel decks simultaneously by both Shibata and Hikosaka. The decks were sometimes placed on the floor of the room and sometimes on the roof. Arata Tani, who saw them playing from the roof, said that the two decks created “a relationship that can be described as a call and response with sound.” This performance by Masako + Naoyoshi, called “Tape Duet,” was titled SEA FOR FLOOR, SEA FOR WALL, and SEA FOR ROOF.
The work was performed at the “Komaba Anthology” event held by Hikosaka and Jun Hatta in September 1973. The other performers were Chiya Kuni, her students, and Sho Kazakura. One of the triggers of the event was that Hikosaka had met Kuni and Kazakura at the event “Great Concert – White Anthology” held by Yasunao Tone at the Lunami Gallery in June of the same year.
The work was performed at the “Komaba Anthology” event held by Hikosaka and Jun Hatta in September 1973. The other performers were Chiya Kuni, her students, and Sho Kazakura. One of the triggers of the event was that Hikosaka had met Kuni and Kazakura at the event “Great Concert – White Anthology” held by Yasunao Tone at the Lunami Gallery in June of the same year.
From Tomotaro Kaneko “Music and architecture as methods: Masako + Naoyoshi’s “Tape Duet””
Japanese Art Sound Archive: Masako + Naoyoshi, SEA FOR FLOOR, 1972 A Reenactment and Development by Naoyoshi Hikosaka
November 16th, 2019 3331 Arts Chiyoda B105
Performance
Masako + Naoyoshi, SEA FOR FLOOR I, II, III (A Reenactment and Development by Naoyoshi Hikosaka) Composer｜Naoyoshi Hikosaka Performers｜Naoyoshi Hikosaka / Issei Vanda / Yoshihide Namasu / Tami Yanagawa
Exhibition
Naoyoshi HIkosaka, Upright Sea, 1992
Naoyoshi HIkosaka, Upright Sea / Duet, 2007
Naoyoshi Hikosaka, Upright Sea (Video), 2015
Naoyoshi HIkosaka, Upright Sea, 2019
Naoyoshi HIkosaka, Upright Sea / Stripe, 2019
Naoyoshi Hikosaka, Vertical Sea (Video), 2019
Masako + Naoyoshi, SEA FOR FLOOR I, II, III (A Reenactment and Development by Naoyoshi Hikosaka) Composer｜Naoyoshi Hikosaka Performers｜Naoyoshi Hikosaka / Issei Vanda / Yoshihide Namasu / Tami Yanagawa
Exhibition
Naoyoshi HIkosaka, Upright Sea, 1992
Naoyoshi HIkosaka, Upright Sea / Duet, 2007
Naoyoshi Hikosaka, Upright Sea (Video), 2015
Naoyoshi HIkosaka, Upright Sea, 2019
Naoyoshi HIkosaka, Upright Sea / Stripe, 2019
Naoyoshi Hikosaka, Vertical Sea (Video), 2019
Text｜Naoyoshi Hikosaka / Tomotaro Kaneko
Talk｜Naoyoshi Hikosaka / Tomotaro Kaneko
Sound Recording｜Yoshihiro Kawasaki
Photograph｜Ryo Fujishima
Video｜Yuki Higuchi
Leaflet Design｜Tadao Kawamura
Talk｜Naoyoshi Hikosaka / Tomotaro Kaneko
Sound Recording｜Yoshihiro Kawasaki
Photograph｜Ryo Fujishima
Video｜Yuki Higuchi
Leaflet Design｜Tadao Kawamura
Leaflet
Naoyoshi Hikosaka, “”Great Concert – White Anthology”, 1972, Lunami Gallery”, 2008
Tomotaro Kaneko “Music and architecture as methods: Masako + Naoyoshi’s “Tape Duet””, 2019
Naoyoshi Hikosaka, “”Great Concert – White Anthology”, 1972, Lunami Gallery”, 2008
Tomotaro Kaneko “Music and architecture as methods: Masako + Naoyoshi’s “Tape Duet””, 2019
Naoyoshi Hikosaka Biography
1946 Born in Tokyo
1969 Founded ‘Bikyoto’ (Council of Artists for a United Front) together with his fellow students including Ryuji Miyamoto, Miyako Ishiuchi, Yasunao Tone, Kosai Hori
1970 Left Tama Art University, Department of Painting
1982-83 University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts, under the auspices of the Japanese Government Department of Culture foreign art study program
2009-13 Appointed a specially-appointed professor at Rikkyo University Graduate School
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1970 “Floor Event No.1”, Hikosaka’s own residence, Tokyo
1972 “Floor Event No.3 / Delivery Event”, Gallery 16, Kyoto
“Upright Sea”, Kyoto Shoin Hall, Kyoto
1975 “Practice by 51 Sounds”, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1977 “Practice by Shiritsu”, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
“Practice by Wood Painting”, Shintamura Gallery, Tokyo
1981 “Practice by Wood Painting”, TOKYO GALLERY + Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1988 “Naoyoshi Hikosaka 1975-1988”, Gallery Te, Tokyo
1990 “Naoyoshi Hikosaka 1990 ASIA”, TOKYO GALLERY + Gallery Te, Tokyo
1992 “Cut-out Sculpture and New Upright Sea”, TOKYO GALLERY + SOKO TOKYO GALLERY, Tokyo
1993 “New Floor Event”, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1996 TOKYO GALLERY, Tokyo
2000 “New Wood Painting + α”, TOKYO GALLERY, Tokyo
2001 “Origin of Naoyoshi Hikosaka”, Gallery Te, Tokyo
2002 Lee Ufan · Naoyoshi Hikosaka in Two Person Exhibition, TOKYO GALLERY, Tokyo
2007 “INTERSECTION – Three Events of NaoyoshiI Hikosaka Kyoto 1972 -”, Gallery 16, Kyoto
“VERTICAL CIRCLE: Retrospective exhibition of Naoyoshi Hikosaka”, The Softmachine Museum of Art, Kagawa
2010 “HISTORY LESSONS / The Imaginary Museum of the Imperial Palace”, MAKII MASARU FINE ARTS, Tokyo
2014 “an exhibition for no audience”, Avant-garde experimental NETART, Kanagawa
2016 “FLOOR EVENT 1970”, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
1969 “Plastic Artists League Exhibition”, inside barricaded Tama University campus, Tokyo
1975 “The 7th Paris Youth Biennale”, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, Paris
1982 “The 40th Venice Viennale”, Venice
1987 “19a Bienal Internacional de Artes de São Paulo”, São Paulo
1988 “Olympiad of Art”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Seoul
1989 “Europalia 1989 Japan in Belguim”, Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, Gent
1999 “Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s”, The Queens Museum of Art, New York
2000-09 “The 1st-4th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial”, Niigata
2001 “CENTURY CITY”, Tate Modern, London
2005 “Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Art”, Ljubljana moderna galerija, Ljubljana
2007 “The 1st Lisbon Architecture Triennale”, Lisbon
2008 “Kompira Art 2008 Toramaru Shachu”, Auditorium Kotohira-cho, Kagawa
2013 “The 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th Reverse triangular relationship Exhibition”, The Bamboo culture space, Tokyo
“Concert: Naoyoshi Hikosaka + Noise Music Concert of A.A.C.L”, Kissa Sakaiki, Tokyo
“Re:play 1972/2015 Restaging ”, The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Tokyo
2016 “The 11th, 13th, 15th, 16th, 18th, 20th, 22nd, 24th, 28th, 30th Reverse triangular relationship Exhibition”, The Bamboo culture space, Tokyo
2017 “The Disconnection-Art Movement: An Exhibition of Simulation-Art”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo
2018 “Travelers: Stepping into the Unknown”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
“TAKAHASHI COLLECTION Face and Abstraction”, Kiyoharu Art Colony, Yamanashi
2019 “Group Show 2”, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo
“Who opens up the world?”, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
Masako + Naoyoshi Biography
Selected Exhibitions
1972 “Komaba Anthology”, Kuni Chiya Buto Raboratory, Tokyo
“Image Expression ’72”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
1973 “AFFECT GREEN meet FLOOR EVENT”, Tamura Gallery, Tokyo
“AFFAIR & PRACTICE · BY 12”, Pinar Galleries, Tokyo
“Quintette + 4 REVOLUTION Photography Exhibition”, Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo
“Artists Today ’73”, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa
Japanese Art Sound Archive 