Credits
Creative Director : Kaoru Kudo
Director / Art Director / Technical Director : Takeshi Funatsu
Programmer : Yuki Horikawa, Seiya Takasawa
Producer : Takuya Inagaki
Project Manager : Ikumi Tabata
Conception / Comprehensive Direction : Junya Oikawa (SONIFIDEA LLC)
Organizer : Office Partner, Inc., Godaisan Chikurin-ji HOSHIOTOYA Executive Committee
Equipment / Technical : OS CO.,LTD.
Event Planning : Tomohisa Takahashi (Office Partner, Inc.)
Special Cooperation : Godaisan Chikurin-ji Temple
Shooting : CAP
Director / Art Director / Technical Director : Takeshi Funatsu
Programmer : Yuki Horikawa, Seiya Takasawa
Producer : Takuya Inagaki
Project Manager : Ikumi Tabata
Conception / Comprehensive Direction : Junya Oikawa (SONIFIDEA LLC)
Organizer : Office Partner, Inc., Godaisan Chikurin-ji HOSHIOTOYA Executive Committee
Equipment / Technical : OS CO.,LTD.
Event Planning : Tomohisa Takahashi (Office Partner, Inc.)
Special Cooperation : Godaisan Chikurin-ji Temple
Shooting : CAP
Light Vein
HOSHIOTOYA – 1,300th anniversary of the establishment of Godaisan Chikurinji Temple｜2023
WOW participated in the image direction for HOSHIOTOYA, an installation of sound and light at Godaisan Chikurinji Temple in Kochi Prefecture that was celebrating the 1,300th year of its establishment. The overall event throughout the temple precincts was directed by world-renowned sound artist Junya Oikawa. WOW created a space from the entrance gate and along the main approach route to the temple that featured light and images utilizing the natural and scenic beauty of the temple.
Image Direction: Light Vein
The ecosystem of Chikurinji Temple, comprising the copious veins of water that envelop Mt. Godai and rugged and undulating green bamboo groves and densely succulent moss, together create an ethereal atmosphere in the temple precincts. The concept of “light vein” was based on Oikawa’s idea that the fantastical mental landscape that emerges in the midst of such a location would manifest itself in the form of light as night falls.
Life’s fundamental forms are visualized as particles of light and bubbles that are born from a scattering of microscopic “temples” witnessed throughout nature, such as tree roots and crevices in rocks. It is these that drift, then resonate with each other, coming together in veins of light before disappearing. At times, these veins seem to be responding to the steps of people, as if welcoming visitors to the temple precincts and leading them up to the main hall. The scene created by tracing the behavior and image of light that originally inhabited this place and blending it with the verdant nature of the temple precincts is expressed as pulsating life in constant flux, while also interweaving the light of the life that resides there.
WOW created a space where the workings of everyday life and the teachings of Buddhism, which have been woven together uninterrupted for 1,300 years at Chikurinji Temple, emerge as you stand contemplatively for a moment with a sharply focused mind.
Image Direction: Light Vein
The ecosystem of Chikurinji Temple, comprising the copious veins of water that envelop Mt. Godai and rugged and undulating green bamboo groves and densely succulent moss, together create an ethereal atmosphere in the temple precincts. The concept of “light vein” was based on Oikawa’s idea that the fantastical mental landscape that emerges in the midst of such a location would manifest itself in the form of light as night falls.
Life’s fundamental forms are visualized as particles of light and bubbles that are born from a scattering of microscopic “temples” witnessed throughout nature, such as tree roots and crevices in rocks. It is these that drift, then resonate with each other, coming together in veins of light before disappearing. At times, these veins seem to be responding to the steps of people, as if welcoming visitors to the temple precincts and leading them up to the main hall. The scene created by tracing the behavior and image of light that originally inhabited this place and blending it with the verdant nature of the temple precincts is expressed as pulsating life in constant flux, while also interweaving the light of the life that resides there.
WOW created a space where the workings of everyday life and the teachings of Buddhism, which have been woven together uninterrupted for 1,300 years at Chikurinji Temple, emerge as you stand contemplatively for a moment with a sharply focused mind.
Credits
Creative Director : Kaoru Kudo
Director / Art Director / Technical Director : Takeshi Funatsu
Programmer : Yuki Horikawa, Seiya Takasawa
Producer : Takuya Inagaki
Project Manager : Ikumi Tabata
Conception / Comprehensive Direction : Junya Oikawa (SONIFIDEA LLC)
Organizer : Office Partner, Inc., Godaisan Chikurin-ji HOSHIOTOYA Executive Committee
Equipment / Technical : OS CO.,LTD.
Event Planning : Tomohisa Takahashi (Office Partner, Inc.)
Special Cooperation : Godaisan Chikurin-ji Temple
Shooting : CAP
Director / Art Director / Technical Director : Takeshi Funatsu
Programmer : Yuki Horikawa, Seiya Takasawa
Producer : Takuya Inagaki
Project Manager : Ikumi Tabata
Conception / Comprehensive Direction : Junya Oikawa (SONIFIDEA LLC)
Organizer : Office Partner, Inc., Godaisan Chikurin-ji HOSHIOTOYA Executive Committee
Equipment / Technical : OS CO.,LTD.
Event Planning : Tomohisa Takahashi (Office Partner, Inc.)
Special Cooperation : Godaisan Chikurin-ji Temple
Shooting : CAP
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