DOMMUNE “THE 100 JAPANESE COMTEMPORARY ARTISTS” season 7 #054

DOMMUNE started broadcasting in March 2010. It has had up to 10,000 simultaneous listeners per broadcast, more than 50 million total listeners during talks and live DJ-ing, and continues to share its shows globally as Japan’s first net streaming station. Representative Naohiro Ukawa does everything from photo and video shooting, streaming, and recording as an art form within the context of his own practice of “current art”. In its 10 years of streaming, it has streamed more than 5,000 programs, approx. 10,000 hours, and 200 terabytes. In today’s world where the format of “broadcasting”, “publishing”, and “publicity” are being broken down, DOMMUNE continues to bring forth new revolutionary methods and opens the possibilities of visual communication. The station has participated in numerous international contmporary art exhibitions, in places like London, Dortmund, Stockholm, Paris, Mumbai, Linz, Fukushima, Yamaguchi, Osaka, Kagawa, Kanazawa, Akita, Sapporo, building a satellite studio across the world. This represents both uneven distribution (here, now) and the omnipresent (wherever, whenever) that DOMMUNE continues to explore. For the Tokyo Biennale, the station will develop an interview project titled “THE 100 JAPANESE COMTEMPORARY ARTISTS” in its 7th season.

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