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Kasane no Irome - Piling up Colors Kunsinstallasie-Ontwerp by Nakamura Kazunobu

Kasane no Irome - Piling up Colors Kunsinstallasie-Ontwerp by Nakamura Kazunobu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award in Goud in Uitvoerende Kunste, Verhoog, Styl en Dekorontwerp Competition Category.


GoudUitvoerende Kunste· 2020

Kasane no Irome - Piling up Colors Kunsinstallasie-Ontwerp

by Nakamura Kazunobu

Client: Egiku Japanese-Dance Products

A' Design Award in Goud Winner in Uitvoerende Kunste Category

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The Design

About Kasane no Irome - Piling up Colors Kunsinstallasie-Ontwerp

'N Installasie-ontwerp van Japanese Dance. Japannese het kleure van ouds opgeroep om heilige dinge uit te druk. Die opstel van die papier met vierkantige silhoeëtte is ook gebruik as heilige diepte. Nakamura Kazunobu het 'n ruimte ontwerp wat die atmosfeer verander deur na verskillende kleure te verander met so 'n vierkantige "ophoping" as motief. Panele wat in die lug vlieg, sentreer na die dansers, bedek die lug bo die verhoogruimte en beeld die voorkoms van lig deur die ruimte wat nie sonder die panele gesien kan word nie.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award in Goud

Kasane no Irome - Piling up Colors Kunsinstallasie-Ontwerp is 'n wenner van die A' Design Award in Goud, 'n geweldig prestigieuse erkenning wat toegeken word aan eersteklas-, wonderlike en uitstaande ontwerpe. Wenners in Goud is uiters innoverende, visionêre en glansryk verblindende skeppings wat die vernuf, wysheid en bekwaamheid van hul ontwerpers weerspieël. Daar word verwag dat Kasane no Irome - Piling up Colors Kunsinstallasie-Ontwerp 'n hoogs geprese, tendensskeppende en monumentale uitvinding is wat ongekende waarde lewer. Hierdie ontwerp wat die A' Design Award in Goud gewen het, is 'n skouspelagtige, gerespekteerde projek wat die grense van kuns, wetenskap, ontwerp en tegnologie in hoë mate bevoordeel en uitbrei. Kasane no Irome - Piling up Colors Kunsinstallasie-Ontwerp wek intense gevoelens van begeerte, roep passie op, moedig kreatiwiteit aan en boei ons.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
One Japanese Dance of Japanese traditional arts.
For a long time this dance, which has been preserved and emphasizes silence rather than dynamism, has long been out of touch with the modern atmosphere.
We grope for new Japanese dance, and this is a design of the stage art which aimed at the ideal form of Contemporary Japanese dance.
Unlike traditional Japanese dance two-dimensional stage art, three-dimensional design that takes advantage of the entire stage space.
We aimed to produce a worldview of new Japanese Dance of modern interpretation by those.
Panels flying in the air centering on the dancers cover the sky above the stage space and depict the appearance of light passing through the space that can not be seen without the panels.
Panels that correspond to light.
A space that draws light strikingly, in concert with Dancer, develops Japanese Dance.
We created a contemporary Japanese Dance of a mysterious world.
Dimensions & Packaging
158㎡
Production Technology
Three-dimensional stage design using the whole stage space.
With 3D modeling technology, the panels floating in the air were placed around the dancers as if they were blown up by the wind.
Although the panels overlap intricately, the plurality of strings that hang each panel are calculated so as not to cross each other.
We also calculated the movements of the dancers and adjusted the position of the panels to avoid the dancers.
The panel was made of a frame made of a thin 9 mm square steel square pipe and a mesh of ultra thin transparent threads made of resin in a double layer.
We made the panels so that the mesh was not homogeneous, and made the transmission slightly different, creating a subtle difference in the way light is reflected within a single panel.
This allows the panel to receive a moderate amount of light, and the panel will appear and disappear.
We were able to realize three-dimensional stage art design closely linked to the dancers, resonating with the light.
Design Challenge
We experimented a number of times to create a panel that would receive just the right amount of light and disappear just the right amount.
We also tried many times to create a more beautiful arrangement of the panels so that they would not interfere with the dancers' movements.
The result of such an experiment was realized in this installation.
It was very difficult for me to propose this design to the people of Japanese dance, who have different values, and to get them to accept it.
This installation design was an opportunity for Japanese dance to make a leap from the traditional performing arts of an island nation that has no connection with the world to one of the world's dance genres.
Research
Originally, Japanese dance aspired to an abstract and simple expression, stripped of its superfluous elements.
That idea must be evolved and sublimated into a modern expression that fits the times.
Integration with digital technology.
It's not a collaboration with soft digital, such as media art.
By utilizing digital technology in the design of the hardware part of the stage space, we drew out the new appeal of Japanese dance.
The dancers' movements and associated forms were made possible for the first time by invisible digital technology.
Digital technology is expanding the potential for expression that was originally inherent in the traditional arts of Japanese dance.
This stage was taken away as an article in the mass media such as newspapers.
The stage was estimated worldwide, and the World Dance Festival "Festival d'Avignon 2019” also perform in the festival.
It's expected also to do a dance performance in "Festival d' Avignon 2020 " this year.
Inspiration
Japanese have been piling up colors from olden times to express nature and feelings.
In traditional Japanese women's costumes, they have shown layers of cloth of various colors, and by showing the overlap, they have expressed sacred depth.
Also, in Japan, layering paper or cloth with square silhouettes has been used as a thing representing sacred depth.
A row of square paper decorated at the entrance of a Japanese shrine is one such example.
In this work of dancing a woman's life, I designed a space that changes the atmosphere by changing to various colors with such rectangular "overlap" as a motif.
It looks like a fog. It can be seen at one time, not seen at one time, transformed into various forms.
It, together with the tone of the mysterious Koto, represents a magnificent life full of change in a woman.
Project Duration
12/Jun/2019 open Sakuragaokacho,Shibuya-ku,Tokyo Japan
Operation Flow
Japanese have been piling up colors from olden times to express sacred thing.
Also, piling up paper with square silhouettes has been used as a thing representing sacred depth.
I designed a space that changes the atmosphere by changing to various colors with such square "piling up" as a motif.
Panels flying in the air centering on the dancers cover the sky above the stage space and depict the appearance of light passing through the space that can not be seen without the panels.
A space that draws light strikingly, develops Japanese Dance.
Team Members
Environment Design : Kazunobu Nakamura,
Produce & Dancer : Egiku Hanayagi,
Koto player : Etsuko kawaguchi,
Lighting-design : Theaterbrain/Masao Igarashi,
Production : Tashibu to Fukushima,
Stage director : Noriyuki Shirato
Image Credits
Photograph : Atsushi Ishida

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