Installation • Plant Music, 2022
22–24 September • 14:00 – 18:00 • Techne Sphere Leipzig • Free admission
Screening • FLUX
24 September • 14:30 • Luru Kino • Free admission
Miki Yui is an artist and composer from Tokyo, based in Duesseldorf, Germany. With her background in fine art, Miki Yui explores the grey zones of our perception and imagination, in the fields of music, drawing, installation and performance. Her works are shown in Europe and in Asia.
Since 1999 she is known for her unique minimalistic and organic approach. From a delicate tiny hiss to a distant hum, electronic sounds and field recordings are woven into music with a narrative tension, that are subtle references to existents.
Her 7th solo album APERIO! is released from Hallow Ground in September 2020. She has collaborated with Klaus Dinger (NEU!) , Rolf Julius, Carl Stone and Asmus Tietchens. She plays her uniquely mysterious and minimalistic abstract music with sounds from synthesizer, sampler and noises, that reveals the beauty of emptiness, the phenomena of co-existence and resonances in life.
»Starting from a perception of the faintest sounds and noises, Miki Yui develops pieces of music, drawings and sound installations that are subtle references to existents.« — Erich Franz
»Miki Yui´s (...) music is not a river, in fact it overflows in all directions imaginable, and it seems like the sounds and their interaction describe a kind of natural evolution.« - Tolouse Lowtrax
Installation • Plant Music, 2022
21–24 September • 14:00 – 18:00 • Techne Sphere Leipzig • Free admission
Pflanze (1947), a delicate pencil drawing by Joseph Beuys, is located on an elliptical sheet of paper that resembles a botanical seed. A figure that looks like the pistil of a flower, resembles a human figure holding a megaphone above its head. As if the plant is speaking or sending signals toward the sun. Her feet hold the ground, and two leaf skeletons are attached to either side of her leg, as if they were wings ready to fly. A delicately outlined circle in the background: is this the aura of the plant or the sun? The drawing represents all the characteristics of a plant in a seemingly simple way.
In 2021 I was invited to compose a piece for Beuys Radio, one of the projects of Beuys 2021 exhibition, which is taking place on the occasion of the centenary of Beuys. It was obvious for me to compose a piece inspired by plant. I called it Plant Music - imagine the music of a plant and also the planting of music.
In 2022, the piece was presented in the form of a four-channel sound installation at Manifesta 14 in Pristina, Kosovo. Unlike the installation at Manifesta 14, which was installed in a hotel room overlooking the city, the installation in Parliament of Plants II is in a public space. The plant music subtly blends with the sounds of the surrounding sounds of the environment, inviting visitors to listen contemplatively and discover the musical quality of the environment.
Screening • FLUX
24 September • 14:30 • Luru Kino • Free admission
As part of the screening & conversation format »Beyond Labelwork« between Jacob Eriksen, Miki Yui, Nathalia Favaro & Selu Herraiz
The flux-project is an artistic collaboration by Nathalia Favaro and Miki Yui, which was created in 2019.
We organise an event combining the screening of the film FLUX with lecture, talk or workshop by local experts on issues related to ecology and sustainability. The event aims to offer inspiration and practical knowledge as well as examples of different approaches towards climate change.
Regarding climate change, deforestation, local communities, Amazon Rainforest, food production and consumption, the film is an open proposal to audience, inviting for further discussion. The sensitive and creative approach towards these issues makes the climate change tangible. It supports audience to feel, think and take action in their own way.
The goal is to raise awareness and bring people together to learn how to deal with our life on earth, to share ideas and encourage individuals to find their way to create a more sustainable society. The action of individuals lead in the sum to a greater result towards transformation of the global society. Such approach makes difference in the longer term, achieving long lasting commitment which is essential for the ecological issue.
This website is an ongoing archive of the events and collaborators, it serves as a sharing platform of useful knowledge and inspiration.
The film has been shown in different cities around the world to create a temporary learning space for reflecting and acting on ecological life.
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