seeing sound, hearing time
December 21, 2024–March 30, 2025
4-1-1 Miyoshi
Koto-ku
Tokyo 135-0022
Japan
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Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo presents the exhibition Ryuichi Sakamoto: seeing sound, hearing time.
A composer and an artist, Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952–2023) continuously paved the way for his era through his diverse and cutting-edge artistic activities. Since the 2000s, he devoted himself to creating three-dimensional sound installations in exhibition spaces, which he developed and realized in collaboration with various artists.
Focusing entirely on large-scale installation works, this first comprehensive exhibition in Japan looks back on Sakamoto’s pioneering, experimental creative artworks, including some of his most well-known previous pieces, and new works that he envisioned for this particular occasion before his passing, which will be dynamically constructed in and around the museum building.
Collaboration artists: Shiro Takatani, Daito Manabe, Carsten Nicolai, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Zakkubalan, Toshio Iwai
Special collaboration: Fujiko Nakaya
List of works
Exhibition Gallery, 1st floor
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, TIME TIME, 2024
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, water state 1, 2013
Ryuichi Sakamoto with Shiro Takatani, IS YOUR TIME, 2017/2024
Carsten Nicolai, PHOSPHENES, ENDO EXO, 2024 Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto
Exhibition Gallery, B2 floor
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Apichatpong Weerasethakul, async–first light, 2017
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Durmiente, 2021
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, async–immersion tokyo, 2024
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Zakkubalan, async–volume, 2017
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, LIFE–fluid, invisible, inaudible…, 2007
Ryuichi Sakamoto × Toshio Iwai, Music Plays Images X Images Play Music, 1996–1997/2024
*Special exhibit from archive—new installation work reenacting a performance from 1996–97
Courtyard (1st floor, outdoor)
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Daito Manabe, Sensing Streams 2024–invisible, inaudible (MOT version) , 2024
Sunken Terrace (B2 floor, outdoor)
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Fujiko Nakaya + Shiro Takatani, LIFE–WELL TOKYO, Fog Sculpture #47662, 2024
*special collaboration
Organized by: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo operated by Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, The Asahi Shimbun, TV Asahi
Guest Curator: Sachiko Namba
