Ryoichi Kurokawa is a young audiovisual artist born in 1978 in Osaka (Japan). He declines vibrant and refined universes through video, music, installations and performances where minimalism breaks up and re-assembles in more complex and vertiginous structures. Some people think he's a visionary and genial artist while others consider him to be formal and technicist. The continuous concentration on synesthesia, the ability to trigger the imagination and the scrupulous attention to landscapes and definition makes Kurosawa's works the standard for audiovisual cross-media art. Kurokawa has shown his art and performed at international festivals and museums in Europe, US and Asia including TATE MODERN [UK], ARS ELECTRONICA [AT], MUTEK [CA] and SONAR [ES].

Rheo: 5 horizons

The architectonic components of "rheo", which is Greek for stream, are reconstructed on 5 plasma displays and 5 speakers. The 5 vertical lines are placed in the middle of frame, the horizontal lines stabilise the image, developing a dynamic model organically driven by the time. All things flow, everything runs and does not stay put. Things seem to be the same however are never same. We will find life (the being) in this dynamics. I think that is what the beauty is all about and we are in this temporary beauty. I incorporate the organic form of nature and trace the motion and the color. Then, it reconstructs the landscape of nature that has a fluent alteration of time in the immovability with concrete images, field recordings and generative audio/animation. The continuity of death and rebirth in symbolized in this alteration.

Celeritas

This is 4-screen concert version of original 3ch HD projection + 5.1ch surround sound installation piece. This work is mainly composed of underwater sound and generative audio with digital processed concrete imageries. "Celeritas" means "swiftness", "speed", and is the origin of the symbol "c" indicating the speed of light. This work focuses on the womb and the baby in the womb and her/his speed/time concept. Our dreams are composed of fragments of our memories. However a fetus in the womb doesn't have memories. As a concept the dreams of the baby could see the future as a memory since it has no idea of time and space. The unborn child stays in the womb for 9 months. In this period, the fetus has the longest dream in her/his life. She/he might have dreams of future event. What we are seeing, what we are hearing, what we are feeling now, these might be the dreams we had in the womb.

Parallel Head

This work is a concert version of installation "Parallel Head ", presented by diptych screens and 5.1ch surround sound, focusing on synaesthesia, an audiovisual stimulus and spatial localization, and on the extension of perception by spatial/three-dimensional feeling of sound and image.