Paper Clouds
‘Paper Clouds: Materiality in Empty Space’ is a Japanese poem to The Nelson Stair, and to the surface textures, translucency, lightness and inner strength of Washi paper. Designed by SEKISUI HOUSE - KUMA LAB (The University of Tokyo) and curated by Clare Farrow, founder of Clare Farrow Studio, the project is an experiment in design materiality, music and fashion with violinist and composer Midori Komachi, and a meeting of Tokyo and London.
Curator
Clare Farrow, Clare Farrow Studio
Designer
SEKISUI HOUSE - KUMA LAB
Project Leader for the KUMA LAB
Toshiki Hirano
Violinist and Composer, dressed by the KUMA LAB with jewellery by Mikimoto
Midori Komachi
Music Partner
London Music Fund (Senior Scholars)
Recording Musicians
Laonikos Psimikakis Chalkokondylis (Shakuhachi), Valerie Welbanks (Cello)
Structural Designer, The University of Tokyo
Yoshihiro Fukushima
Project Team Member, The University of Tokyo
Satoru Kazamatsuri
Costume Design and Production Assistants
Hiroka Matsumoto, The University of Tokyo
Anon Okazaki, Amane Kido and Kanaho Kidahashi, Japan Women’s University
Lighting Designers
Ed Elbourne and Sam Porter-Frakes on behalf of Arup
Installation Sound Engineer
Adam Barkley
Project Manager
Clare Farrow Studio
Installation Assistants
Vaishali Odedra and Senia Savia Gomes, Royal College of Art
Bouchaib Hilali, Goldsmiths graduate
Sponsors
Mikimoto
Mineral Sound (Sound Sponsor and new Stone Speakers)
Supporters
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England
Arup (Lighting), Awagami Factory (Technical Support), JSPS Kakenhi Grant, POLA Art Foundation, The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, The Hinrichsen Foundation