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Yakushimaru Etsuko

 

Yakushimaru Etsuko is an artist, musician, producer, lyricist, composer, arranger, and singer. Broadly active, from pop music to experimental music and art. Consistently independent in her wide-ranging activities, which also include drawing, painting, installation art, media art, poetry and other literature, and recitation. Producing numerous projects and artists, including her band, SOUTAISEIRIRON. While appearing in the music charts with many hit songs, she has also created a project that involved the use of satellite, biological data and biotechnology, a song-generating robot powered by artificial intelligence and her own voice, an independently-developed VR system, and original electronic musical instruments.

Her work “I’m Humanity” won the Ars Electronica STARTS Grand Prize and has been exhibited around the world.

 

 

Project:

相対性理論 SOUTAISEIRIRON

Yakushimaru Etsuko & d.v.d

etc.

 

 

Another name:

Tica Alpha

Yakushimaru Etsuko Metro Orchestra

Yakushimaru Experiment

Hirakushimaru

etc.

 

 

Exhibitions:

2023-   ” Yakushimaru Etsuko – Haneda Airport Terminal 2 Sound Art”

Haneda Airport Terminal 2, Tokyo

 

2023   “I’m Humanity”

Deutsches Hygiene-Museum: ‘OF GENES AND HUMAN BEINGS’, Dresden

 

2022-2023   “I’m Humanity”

Chronus Art Center ‘Entangled: ‘bio/media’, Shanghai

 

2022-2023   “I’m Humanity”

‘Navigating the Digital Realm’, Brussel

 

2022   “I’m Humanity”

Palácio Sinel de Cordes ‘NEAR+FUTURES+QUASI+WORLDS’, Lisbon

 

2022   “I’m Humanity”

Biblioteca Salaborsa ‘NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS’, Bologna

 

2020   “I’m Humanity”

STATE Studio ‘NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS’, Berlin

 

2020   “I’m Humanity”

GYRE GALLERY ‘Histopolis — Extinction and Regeneration’, Tokyo

 

2019-2020   “I’m Humanity”

Mori Art Museum ‘Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life – How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow’, Tokyo

 

2019   “I’m Humanity”

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa ‘Where We Now Stand—In Order to Map the Future’, Kanazawa

 

2018   “I’m Humanity”

National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo ‘I’m Humanity’, Tokyo

 

2017-2018   “I’m Humanity”

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa ‘Undying Life’, Kanazawa

 

2017   “I’m Humanity”

Ars Electronica Festival, Linz

 

2017   “I’m Humanity”

Bozar Electronic Arts Festival, Brussel

 

2016-2017   “Tensei Jingle – Polyhedron”

Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi

 

2016-2017   “Like A Protein”

Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi

 

2016-2017   “I’m Humanity”

Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi

 

2016   “I’m Humanity”

KENPOKU ART 2016

 

2013   “LOVE+1+1”

Mori Art Museum ‘All You Need Is LOVE’, Tokyo

 

2013   “Λ Girl”

Toyota Municipal Museum of Art’ Antigravity’, Aichi

 

2012   “myodesopsia”

Solo Exhibition ‘myodesopsia’, Talion Gallery, Tokyo

 

etc.

 

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