Date: Thursday,October 10, 2024
Sound Walk: 2:15–2:45 p.m.
Lecture/Presentation: 3:00–4:00 p.m.
Location: Starting from the steps in front of Haydn Hall—followed by a lecture in Rm. 100 (The Haven)
Who: L.A. multimedia artist Alan Nakagawa, CWRU Music's AJ Kluth, and You (Us)
What: Walking and listening
Cost: FREE – with registration
About The Event
Listening is a feeling is a knowing—these ideas animate the work of Alan Nakagawa. A multimedia artist and researcher with archival tendencies, Nakagawa has a knack for conceiving and executing ingenious embodied sound and visual art experiences that offer opportunities to meet ourselves anew in hidden histories, making new sense of our world.
In conversation with Dr. AJ Kluth of the CWRU Department of Music, Nakagawa will map connections of his oral history and archival projects to his artistic output. This walk and subsequent talk will demonstrate how thoughtful and speculative engagements with our remembered and present worlds might help us better understand ourselves and recommend vision and action for more just futures.
Sponsors
- Department of Music
- Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities
- Tsunagari Japan: CWRU's Japanese Culture and Conversation Club
Alan Nakagawa will present his work on Wednesday, October 9, at 6:00 p.m. at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Details can be found on CMA's website.
Alan Nakagawa's Peace Resonance: Hiroshima/ Wendover
Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Time: 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Location: Cleveland Museum of Art (Ames Family Atrium)
Cost: FREE – no ticket required
Artist Bio
Alan Nakagawa is an interdisciplinary artist with archiving tendencies, primarily working with sound, often incorporating various media and working with communities and their histories. He has created a series of Invisible Architecture experiences that are mash ups of the recorded acoustics of historical sites, giving new context to historic places through a contemporary lens of sound. Nakagawa is currently the Artist-in-residence for two institutions. 1) Kaya Press at the University of Southern California, a small literary publication focusing on Asian and Pacific Islander American and Diasporic literature celebrating its 30th Anniversary and 2) the Gerth Archives, California State University Dominguez Hills assigned to the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations collections, which consists of materials pertaining to the campaign that led to the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. His first book, “A.I.R.Head: Anatomy of an Artist in Residence” was published in January 2023 by Writ-Large Press. It maps his artistic trajectory that led to his nine Artist-in-residencies in six years.