Ryuichi Sakamoto: sound happens in a room
Seeing Sound, Hearing Time opens at TFAM on October 31. Start with a ripple, then put booking day in your diary.
By Look Three Small editors · Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani: water state 1
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Shiro Takatani · 2013
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, water state 1 (2013). Tokyo exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2024. Photograph: 丸尾隆一. ©2024 KAB Inc.; published by TFAM. Editorial use.
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Follow a ripple into Sakamoto’s sound installations and artist collaborations.
In TFAM’s published photograph of Sakamoto and Shiro Takatani’s water state 1, a falling drop leaves circles on dark water.
Seeing Sound, Hearing Time brings together seven large installations and material from the 1999 opera LIFE. Water, mist, weather data and electromagnetic signals offer a way into Sakamoto’s collaborations with artists including Takatani and Daito Manabe.
The first bookings open October 15 at 10am Taiwan time. Your one-hour ticket slot controls entry; once inside, there is no viewing-time limit. Leave room in the day to listen.
Get there
Public transport
Allow 15 minutes for the roughly 800-metre walk from Yuanshan MRT through Expo Park. Reserved exhibition visitors check in at the south entrance.
Sources
- Reserve entry on OPENTIX ↗ — Choose a date, entry slot and ticket
- TFAM exhibition and works ↗ — Works, collaborators, dates and photograph
- TFAM booking and visit instructions ↗ — Admission, booking, check-in and hours