Ryoko Akama

Ryoko Akama is a Japanese-Korean artist working with installation, performance, and composition, and residing in Huddersfield, UK.

Her works sculpt domestic appliances and scrap wastes with invisible energy, especially interested in heat, magnetism, and gravity, into kinetic contraptions. Her site-specific works infuse both aural and visual occurrences as one entity, creating ephemeral situations that magnify silence, time, and space. Interested in the nature of relativity, culture, and system, her artistic practice examines environment, architecture, conflict, and the fluidity of being.

She also composes and performs alternative scores and text works in collaboration with other artists and musicians worldwide. She is a member of the electronic music collective The Lappetites since 2000 and of the 9-piece band a.hop.