TETSUYA UMEDA / BENEDICT DREW / HIRAKI SAWA / DALE BERNING

Event information

Tetsuya Umeda - Solo

Altering fans, televisions, and other everyday appliances, converting their functions into something utterly different, UMEDA creates objects freed from their original meanings. His works, created to suit the spaces in which they will be installed, use utterly familiar, commonplace phenomena, channeled through his clever handiness and unique spatial sensibility, to create mysterious, seemingly impossible sensations. They thereby free one from rigid perceptions constrained by preconceived ideas.

Born in 1980, works in performances and installations, mainly at live events, focusing on sound and space. He has participated in music festivals such as "Festival Beyond Innocence" (2002-7, Osaka) and "Install" (2006, Scotland) and in a variety of exhibitions and events, including "Sound Art Lab" (2005, Osaka), "The Listening Project" (2006, London), "Waitool Sounds" (2007, San Francisco), "Sound Effects Seoul" (2007, Seoul), and "Blurrr" (2007, Tel Aviv),
CRITERIUM, Art Tower (2008 MITO Ibaraki, Japan), Science of Superstition, OtaFineArts (2009 Tokyo)

Umeda’s website
http://www.siranami.com/e.html

Tetsuya Umeda & Benedict Drew - duo

Umeda and Drew will perform an unique improvised set.

Benedict Drew http://www.benedictdrew.com/biog.html

Tetsuya Umeda & Friends
Umeda will be joined by London based artists Hiraki Sawa and Dale Berning and two surprise guests from Tokyo.

Umeda (invented tools)
Berning (objects)
Sawa (projection)

Hiraki Sawa
http://www.jamescohan.com/artists/hiraki-sawa/
http://www.otafinearts.com/artists-sawa_hiraki.html

Dale Bening
http://www.boweavilrecordings.com/berning.html
http://www.takeninagawa.com/artists/dale_berning/dale_berning_7.html