Fuyuki Yamakawa

Fuyuki Yamakawa: ‘Khoomei’ singer / Performer / Sound creator
Born in London, UK in 1973.
Lives and works in Tokyo.

He improvised musical happenings - picks up and amplifies the sound of his heartbeat with an electronic stethoscope. His performance, expressing himself through sound and light, is completely original and powerful, and thus creates a deep resonance to the space as well as to the audience.

■MAJOR SOLO EXHIBITION

2006: -'ALIVE ART MATSURI vol.2 Fuyuki Yamakawa "the Voice-Over"', BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan; -'The voice-over - Fuyuki Yamaka', Gallery Objective Correlative, Tokyo

2015: - "Sayoko Yamaguchi ? The Wearist Clothed in the Future”　 The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo/Japan; - “MOT Collection Special Exhibition for the 20th Anniversary of Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Stage3 Collection Becoming” The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo/Japan

2014: - "Sapporo International Art Festival 2014", ?Chi-Ka-Ho, Sapporo Underground Walkway, Sapporo/Japan

2013: - "Sharing Vibes" Atsukobarouh, Tokyo/Japan; -"Omnilogue：Your Voice is Mine", NUS Museum, National University of Singapore, Singapore

2012: -"Artists and the Disaster - Documentation in Progress - " Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki/Japan; -"Tomorrow is today I see for the first time " Snow Contemporary, Tokyo/Japan

2011: -"Atomicsite" directed by illcomonz, Contemporary Art Factory, Tokyo/Japan; -"Tokyo Art plant", Tokyo university of Arts Ueno Campus faculty of Fine arts, Tokyo/Japan; -"Nishino Travelers", Naniwabashi Station Art Area B1 (Osaka), Nakanoshima Banks CENTER-A (Osaka), Antenna Media (Kyoto)

2010: -'MOT Collection Plastic Memories; to illuminate“now”', Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Collection Gallery, Tokyo

2009: -"Yokohama International Video Festival 2009 CREAM: Creativity for Arts and Media", BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama, Japan; -"I BELIEVE : Japanese Contemporary Art", The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Toyama, Japan; -"ENSEMBLES09", 3331 ArtsChiyoda, Tokyo

2008: -"Seven Nights, Seven Lights", Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; -"Pusan Biennale 2008", Pusan Museum of Art, Pusan, Korea

2019: - “SOCiAL FUNK! 2019”, SOUND MUSEUM VISIONl, Tokyo/Japan; - BLACK SMOKER X Goethe-Institut Tokyo present “BLACK OPERA ?Nibuiro no Kabe”, Goethe-Institut Tokyo Hall, Tokyo/Japan

2017: -“YCC Temporary FUYUKI YAMAKAWA LIVE FOR 70 HOURS” YCC Yokohama Creative city Center 1F Gallery

2012: -"Membrana", Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto/Japan; -"Dance Truck Project", Minatomirai Special Stage,Yokohama/Japan

2011: -"Big In Japan 2011", Paddington Town Hall (Sydney / Australia) , 1000 Pound Bend (Melbourne / Australia)

2010: -"HARAJUKU PERFORMANCE+2010", Laforet Museum, Tokyo/Japan (solo performance); -"Pneumonia", Aichi Arts Center (8F Gallery G), Aichi/Japan; -"GREC2010", Centre du Culture Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona/Spain (solo performance); -"BlackHair Ballad", VACANT, Tokyo/Japan (an independent stage public performance); -"Keiji Haino x Fuyuki Yamakawa", superdeluxe, Tokyo/Japan (duo improvisation, open recording); -"Play Cine en Direct Festival", La Casa Encendida, Spain (solo performance); -"Three residents of a lizard lounge", The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo/Japan; (trio improvisation with Yoshihide Otomo and Norimizu Ameya)

2009: -"4.48 サイコシス", AURUSPOT, Tokyo/Japan (Written by Sarah Kane/Production by Norimizu Ameya, Festival Tokyo participating work); -"Sympathetic Body", Nam June Paik art center, Korea (solo performance); -"MIHARA YASUHIRO Paris men's collection Fashion show", Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris/France(solo performance)

2008: -"HARAJUKU PERFORMANCE+SPECIAL - Norimizu Ameya x Fuyuki Yamakawa performance" Laforet Museum, Tokyo/Japan; -"Nanjing triennial", Nanjing 博物院, Nanjing/China (solo performance); -"ZENSORS", RADIALSYSTEM V, Berlin/Germany; (collaboration of Takayuki Fujimoto, Hiroshi Manabe , Kanta Horio and others)

2007: -"Some cats from Japan", The Kitchen, NY, U.S.; -"Some cats from Japan", The Kitchen, NY, U.S. (Duo with Ikue Mori); -"Vancouver New Music", The Scotiabank Dance Centre,Vancouver, Canada; -"The Time-Based Art Festival", Portland, U.S.; -"D.D.D", Esplanade, Singapore (collaboration with Takao Kawaguchi); -"La Biennale di Venezia", Arsenale, Venezia, Italy (collaboration with Atsuhiro Ito, DoraVideo, MASH); -"MODAFE 2007", ARKO Arts Theatre, Seoul, Korea (collaboration with Takao Kawaguchi)

2006: -"8th High Zero Festival Of Experimental Improvised Music", Baltimore, U.S.; -"Fuji Rock Festival`06", Naeba, Niigata, Japan (as a singer of AlayaVijana); -"sound/bodies", Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; -"La Biennale di Venezia", Arsenale, Venezia, Italy (collaboration with Takao Kawaguchi)

2005: -"Queer Zagreb Festival", HDLU, Zagreb, Republic of Croatia (collaboration with Takao Kawaguchi); -"homeogryllus japonicus orchestra vol.2", Hara museum of contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan; -"Queensland Music Festival", Brisbane, Australia

2004: -"sonarsound Tokyo 2004", Ebisu Garden Place, Tokyo, Japan; -"1st International Kai Festival", Republic of Altai, Russia(awarded '3rd class kaichi'); -"Gennadi Tumat Festival", Republic of Tuva, Russia(awarded 'most creative music award'); -"Fuji Rock Festival`04", Naeba, Niigata, Japan

2003: -"4th International Khoomei Festival", Republic of Tuva, Russia(awarded 'avan-garde award')

2011: -theatre play "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion", Kanagawa Art Theater(Kanagawa),; Matsumoto Arts Performing Centre (Nagano),; Canalcity theater(Fukuoka),; Aichi Prefectural Art Theater (Nagoya),; Umeda Arts THeatre Main Hall (Osaka)/Japan; Rose Theater, New York/U.S.; (Lincoln Center festival 2011 participation)

2009: -"We don't care about music anyway…"documentary, supervisor: Ce'dric Dupire & Gaspard Kuentz, France

2004: -3rd class kaichi, '1st International Kai Festival' Republic of Altai; -most creative music award, 'Gennadi Tumat Festival' Republic of Tuva, Russia

2003: -avan-garde awar, '4th International Khoomei Festival' Republic of Tuva, Russia