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Kunihiro Tsuji

Water Speaker

dates
6/11 wed. - 6/24 tue.
※Osaka Art & Design is Wed.May.28,2025 - Tue.Jun.24,2025
hours
10:00-20:00
location
Osaka Takashimaya Department Store 2F International Boutique Special Space
How can we re-express the human being itself, even its psychological interior?
How can the voice that expresses emotions from the inside be heard again?
How can the voice that expresses emotions from the inside re-echo?
Inspired by the fact that 70% of the human body is made of water, we have created a simulation that more closely resembles the human body, using water as the speaker material.
In 2000, Water Speaker was born from the question of what is hyper-reality that transcends human reality by converging the diversity of life with the generation of sound. To commemorate the quarter century since its birth, the world's first attempt, the sounds of life will once again resound at the Osaka Takashimaya Department Store.
 

Artist / Brand

Kunihiro Tsuji

Acoustic space designer / Representative of Kunihiro Tsuji Design / Visiting professor at Osaka Metropolitan University Urban Resilience Research Centre Organization for Research Promotion/ Visiting professor at Osaka University of Arts Department of Design.
Designed the prototype of Water Speaker in 2000, presented Water Speaker to the world in Venice in 2001, and Water Speaker at the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne in France in 2002.
In 2002, Water Speaker was selected to represent Japan at the ‘Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne’ in France; in 2007, Water Speaker was installed at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan; in 2008, Water Speaker was used in the acoustic design of the Japanese Government Pavilion at the water-themed Expo Zaragoza, Spain; in 2010, Water Speaker was used as the ‘symbol of the future water city Osaka’ at the Shanghai Expo. Water Speaker was exhibited as a ‘symbol of the future water city Osaka’ at the Shanghai Expo 2010.

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Osaka Takashimaya Department Store 


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5-1-5 Namba, Chuo-ku, Osaka

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