“Yakumo Honjin”
David Young, Rosemary Joy, Peter Humble, Yasutaka Hemmi, Takayo Matsumura, Eugene Ughetti, Matthias Schack, Adam Stewart and APHIDS
28 June → 1 Jan 1970
Yakumo Honjin is a music installation for video, miniature percussion, violin and harp inspired by a 280 year old Samurai Hotel located on Lake Shinji, presented in association with APHIDS (Australia) and Sphere (Japan).
Developed in a remote Samurai Hotel in far West Japan in 2007, the work was premiered at Matsue Castle in 2009 and this year will make its first Australian tour to West Space (Melbourne), Elizabeth Bay House as part of the New Music Network Concert Series (Sydney), and up to tropical Far North Queensland as part of On Edge Festival (Cairns).
Yakumo Honjin explores the concept of ‘oku’ – or hidden – a theory which informs traditional architecture, garden design and music.
Two projection-based works created by Peter Humble accompany the installation of the Yakumo Honjin music instruments and presents intricate details of the samurai guesthouse for which the work has been developed.
Yakumo Honjin is supported by the Australia Council, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body and the New Music Network.
David Young
Rosemary Joy
Peter Humble
Yasutaka Hemmi
Takayo Matsumura is an artist.
Eugene Ughetti
Matthias Schack
Adam Stewart is an artist in Naarm/Melbourne.
APHIDS is an artist-led experimental organisation in Naarm/Melbourne. APHIDS make experimental work in public space, festivals, digital platforms, visual and performing arts, major institutions and beyond. APHIDS mission is to create dynamic and unexpected art across accessible and high-profile platforms; collaborate with people inside and outside of the arts to bring attention to urgent social, political and cultural concerns; and interrogate power structures and create radical new ways of working together.