Junya Oikawa

Oikawa’s multidisciplinary practice focuses on digital sound expression to pursue organic interactions. Onomatopoeia represents the actions and movements of creatures. For this work, the “ta ka ta ka” noises were recorded from the artist’s own voice which he digitally transformed and situated within an organic environment. Through meticulous field-research and original sound programming, Oikawa creates the presence of natural “life,” playing with our perception – the real versus artificial. His immersive installation is an environment where landscape, the chirping of insects, and human voices are intermixed, in tune, and interact with the space itself.

Junya Oikawa was born in 1983 in Sendai, Japan. He lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany. He studied at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music and Tokyo University of the Arts. He has exhibited at Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich), Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo), ZKM | Center for Art and Media (Germany), and Jardin de la Villa du Lac (France).