B.O.D.Y. 2-2, 2010©Erika Matsunami&Niklas Schmincke/GEMA,Germany
Stereophonic sound with a binaural recording
Erika Matsunami is an artist creating transdisciplinary works and projects. She was born 1963 in Hiroshima, Japan and lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She completed her degree in Fine Art / Sculpture in 1984 and the sculpture research study (advanced courses) under Professor Hisashi Akutagawa in 1986, the Department of Fine Arts of the junior college at the Hijiyama University, Hiroshima, Japan and in 1997 she graduated Fine Art Studies, liberal arts / the postgraduate course the Institute - Aesthetic Education / Arts and Cultural Studies / Institute for Art in Context under the supervision of Katharina Jedermann and Wolfgang Knapp, the College of Fine Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany. From 2009 through 2010, as a guest student under Professor Dr Martin Supper who composer, scientist and study program director of the postgraduate master course in the Sound Studies – Acoustic Communications at the ZIW of the Berlin University of the Arts and head of the UNI.K-Studio for Sound Art and Sound Research, the College of Music at the Berlin University of the Arts. Afterwards, from 2011 through 2012 she studied the musicology under Professor Dr Martin Supper, UNI.K – UdK l Studio for Sound Art and Sound Research, the College of Music at the Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany. Since 2008 she has been an artist member of GEDOK (Federation of Women Artists and Patrons of the Arts) / IGBK (Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste/International Association of Art) in Germany.
She transforms autobiographical experiences and motives from her social environment into an artistic context and creates projects with different media. Her works comprise a spectrum of both themes and media that spans from sculpture and photography by way of video and performance art all the way to mixed-media installations. Among these works, one of the most prominent is the serial project still/silent that is documented here for the period from 2007 through 2010 and subsequently the series B.O.D.Y. which has been emerged and developing since 2000.
By structurally inscribing her work with a re-contextualization of space-times and media, she has it refer and point to the potentiality of the identity creating function of remembering. The spatial transfer that is programmatically expressed in the choice of diverging venues of performance, thus intuitively becomes the transformation in the sense of the experiment in medium and memory.
Solo Exhibition re/cycle I’m also there, 26 June – 26 August 2011, Galerie M, Berlin, Germany, B.O.D.Y. solo Exhibition - a representation's (site-specific) Project in living room (L’Associazione culturale Diip), 7 September – 22 October 2011, Venice, Italy, B.O.D.Y. collective Exhibition, 22 Ocotober - 28 November 2010, Kunstraum Bethanien, 15 May – 21 August 2011, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany and 15 June - 11 August 2012, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, Germany, B.O.D.Y." - hidden codes (1993/2013), collective Exhibition BILDER DENKEN, 31. May – 25. July 2013, the GEDOK-Galerie, Berlin, Germany, existence of risk - 1964, 100x100=900 (100 videoartists to tell a century) international exhibition tour (15 April – 31 December 2013) in 2013, 9hundred.org/magmart, Naples, Italy
