DESCRIPTION:
Issue Project Room
LAPLANDIA
Thursday, September 6th
o.blaat + toshio kajiwara

Based in Brooklyn, New York, sound artist, composer, and core member of SHARE (http://share.dj - an emergent art community and forum), o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi) is known for her sound works formed through experiments in restructuring and analyzing one's relationship with sounds via kinesthetic response as well as aural cognition in sociological and environmental contexts. She has performed and made installations at venues and festivals worldwide. Upcoming projects include a concert curated by Christian Marclay at ICA Philadelphia, and a residency with Binauralmedia.org in Nodar, Portugal in October ‘07. She has collaborated with artists such as Ikue Mori, Christian Marclay, DJ Olive, Miguel Frasconi, Eyvind Kang, Sachiko M, Aki Onda, Toshio Kajiwara and Anthony Coleman, among many others.

http://obla.at http://myspace.com/oblaat (firefox only)
http://cronicaelectronica.org http://share.dj

Toshio Kajiwara was born in Tokyo and raised in Hong Kong, London and New York. Since the early 90's he has been performing as a sound artist. In 1999 he began organizing an experimental sound event series and music label phonomena based in NYC. With his partner Gregor Asch (DJ Olive), phonomena has presented over 500 international artists in search of global interaction and communication through sound performance. Extensive collaborations with Tim Barnes, Okkyung Lee, Christian Marclay, DJ Olive, Marina Rosenfeld, Barry Weisblat amongst others.

petershapiro.com
being serious: Toshio Kajiwara
instigator: Keiko Uenishi