Thank you everyone for coming to my event at Minamoto Kitchoan San Francisco last Friday! It was very short amount of time, but I had fun meeting and talking with you all. I also enjoyed the warm tea and new delicious sweets from the store – made me feel like I was in Japan.
Minamoto Kitchoan made this awesome video of the event – I’d love to share this with you! Hope we can do another event like this again in the future.
“Fans painted with Aoi Yamaguchi’s stunning Japanese ink-based calligraphy are available in limited supply. Come meet the celebrated artist who will personally create Japanese characters directly onto your unique fan. These elegantly crafted fans will make a beautiful addition to anyone’s art collection, home decoration or give it to someone special as a one-of-a-kind gift. While you are there try our new delicious sweets, which like the fans, are limited in quantity.”
Common Magazine 2011 Summer Issue No.20
RISE JAPAN Report p.42-47
Common Magazine, based in Sendai, Japan, featured the report of our Rise Japan events in SF! Hope our effort helped earthquake & tsunami victims in Japan. Thanx Common!
Pick up your copies at local stores in your city / country!
Distribution locations HERE
Our team Rise Japan is working on planning Rise Japan vol.4! We see and hear less and less about Northern Japan earthquake & tsunami on news media. As you know, Japan needs long-term support to rebuild infrastructure – destroyed buildings and houses from scratch. It’s not someone else’s story… what if it strikes your city?
I have another performance show this weekend: I’ll be performing live large-scale calligraphy at J-Pop Summit Festival this Saturday, August 27th. “J-POP SUMMIT FESTIVAL is a pop culture-themed street fair that covers the grounds of Post Street from Webster to Laguna and the Peace Plaza of Japantown, San Francisco. This year’s festival is hosted by NEW PEOPLE in cooperation with the Japantown Merchants Association.” I have three different sets of performance scheduled throughout the day:
– Kathryn McCarron’s Collection at Painted Dolls in February
Next Friday, I’ll be showing my works and performing live calligraphy painting at fashion + art show called “Painted Dolls”. Guevarra Arcega and Kathryn McCarron will have trunk shows for their brand new season, discounted items from previous seasons and live models showing off their designs. Brian Grief will do his thang with his amazing Accidental Art, and I will have Japanese caligraphy paintings exhibited on the wall, and live painting performance as well!
This will be my first show since I came back from Euro trip. Looking forward to see & reunite SF Bay friends!
PAINTED DOLLS
Friday August 26, 2011 | 7pm-11pm | Free | Wine will be served!
3rd Floor Gallery at
744 Alabama Street San Francisco, CA 94110 | Map
今週土曜日、6月11日に迫る、SwedenのUppsalaという街に位置するKonsert Kongressで開催される、Volt: The Festival for Electronic Musicにて、スェーデン人VJ&オーディオビジュアルアーティストJoel Dittrichとのコラボレーションによる、書道と映像を融合させたパフォーマンスとして参加します。 ミニマル • テクノの先駆者といわれるベルリン出身のDJ、Ben Klockのライブビジュアルを担当します!彼はイベントの大トリを飾るアーティストなので、このコラボの機会を頂けてなんとも光栄です。
このプロジェクトでは、筆の動き、ダイナミックな線をDittrichが操作するコンピュータで読み込み、スクリーン上に投影される映像が変化をするなど、ライブ書道のモーションとオーディオ/ビジュアルを連動させるという新たな試みです。”Urbanature”をテーマに、人工的な都市の中オアシスとして存在する自然の共存を、オーガニックな書道とデジタルアートの共存に置き換えて表現します。 1am-2amの一時間の上演を計画しています。
San Francisco Bay Areaをベースに活動するAboutHerFilmsが、今年2月の”TOGETHER” でのライブパフォーマンスとともにインタビューをフィーチャーしてくれました。TOGETHERでのパフォーマンスは、ベイエリアのハウスダンサーとのコラボレーションという試みで、ダンサーの白のT-shirtsに、派手に赤で文字を書くというもの。実際のクラブスペースの中では、ハウスミュージックがガンガンかかってます。モデルとなってくれたSoul Nubian, Ten, Amy Nabong, Mocaの表情がまたいいのなんの。。Mocaに至っては、Hawaiiからこのショーの為に飛んで来てくれました。楽しくパフォーマンスさせてもらいました。
AboutHerFilms made a really nice video piece on my performance with Bay Area house dancers at TOGETHER in Oakland, back in February. I love the facial expressions of Soul Nubian, Ten, Amy and Moca when I’m painting on them! Moca flew all the way from Hawaii for this show. In the video, I explain my inspiration and passion for calligraphy in the interview. The video is feaured in HipHopIsCoolAgain.com!
Special thanks & big hug to Melinda James of AboutHerFilms.
Heist Wallには、新たなMural Project。
“Who You Are Defines What You Do.”
The wall is located on Leavenworth + Geary St. in TL district of San Francisco.
Video by Satoshi Terawaki
Limited “Life” T-shirts are available. We have size S / M / L.
If you’d like to purchase one, please email info@aoiyamaguchi.com.
Model: Shing02
Thank you all for coming to the opening – I was sick from two days before the opening, but warm energies from everyone cured my sickness really quick. It was amazing – thank you so much for your support, as always.
R/GA is one of the world’s most awarded full-service digital agencies. R/GA San Francisco office is hosting a creative lecture series called, “Creative Connect” starting Friday, March 25 at 4:30 p.m.
Creative Connect is open to the public and intended to provide a space for San Francisco’s creative professionals to speak, perform, or display groundbreaking work and ideas. The series will showcase architects, multi-media artists, curators, chefs, dancers, and even street artists to showcase their talents with the community at large. R/GA’s hope is to reach out and inspire San Francisco’s burgeoning creative community to come together across multiple disciplines to share their work and insights. I was invited as the one to kick off Creative Connect with a reflective presentation and a live large-scale calligraphy performance.
In this unique setting, the audience experiences calligraphy in its entirety and become immersed in the creative process that is usually hidden from public view.
Calligraphy Performance:
甦生 SOSEI (Regeneration)
“甦生 (regeneration)” – This piece is dedicated to Japan…
It has been really emotional days since the Japan earthquake and tsunami happen: I have been pouring all of my attention and energy into the series of fundraiser art exhibition RISE JAPAN. The night before the presentation & performance at R/GA, I began refining my plan for the live calligraphy performance and struggled with wiping chaotic fog off of my mind. Couldn’t decide what to write, and which music to play. I asked myself, what is the message I want to tell through this performance? What do I want to say, what do I want audiences to take home with? – then I heard, “it’s the nostalgia and love for my home country.”
This artist talk was planned from several months ago, and I had a different plan for the theme and music for this performance. Something has changed inside of me – I wasn’t feeling right about my initial plan. My heart wants to relax with these two songs when I’m working at home in the late night. Surrounded by the warm and emotional sound, I was touched and cried, then I thought that these were the sound my soul desired. Then I immediately knew what to do.
On the three large sheets of paper, I wrote lyrics of “Soshu Yakyoku” (written in Showa 15 = 1940), and wrote “SOSEI” (regeneration) with a big brush.
This performance and calligraphy piece is dedicated to people who are suffering from this tragic natural disaster and nations living and supporting the country to heal and rebuild. Praying for regeneration of the country, believing in our strength to do so. Thank you everyone so much for coming to see my presentation and performance. It was such a pleasure to share this amazing space and opportunity with you all.
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Performance 甦生 SOSEI
Music score:
1. Last Emperor / Ryuichi Sakamoto
2. 蘇州夜曲 / Ann Sally
Mixed by Kento Tanaka
Photos by Akko Terasawa / Akira Okawa
Flyer & Poster credit:
Flyer designed by Francisco Tavares (R/GA)
Photo credit:
Calligraphy x Beauty Project w/ Taichi Imai
Model: Crystal
Photography: Taichi Imai (http://taichiimai.com/)
Calligraphy facial painting: Aoi Yamaguchi
Make up: Tomoya Motegi
Hair: Kanako Ito
Special thanks to:
Min Hu, Shagane Barsegian Launey, Brett Rampata, Francisco Tavares, Mauro Cavalletti, all R/GA staff, Akira Okawa, Akko Terasawa, and everyone who attended Creative Connect.