Ayakamay represents HOTEL KAMIKAZE
May 12th Fri – June 4th Sun, 2017

◆Opening Reception:
5/12 Fri 6pm – 9pm

◆Performance:
5/19 Fri 6pm – 9pm
(DSC Annex)

DAVID&SCHWEITZER Contemporary is proud to present HOTEL KAMIKAZE, an exhibition by Ayakamay, opening May 12th, 2017 and on view through June 4th, 2017, in the DSC Project Space, with a featured perfomance in the DSC Annex on May 19th.

After World War II the word “Kamikaze” became synonymous with Japanese suicide pilots and filled Americans with anger and hate.

The traditional meaning of “Kami Kaze” is a completely different and a positive one. “Kami Kaze” is sacred figure of the Divine Wind an ethereal being, a deity whose breath and wind creates energy that moves weathervanes, fans and flags, birds and insects, a positive deity creating a temporal freedom for all touched by this spirit.

Ayakamay’s installation in Hotel Kamikaze creates eternal temporary non-space: a comfortable place to address this still-present discomfort in the common past between East and West, between Japan and the United States. This sacred wind, still trapped, threatens to be caught in the lightness of the air like a cloud or a mirror that shows us how difficult it is to find commonalities when we hold onto our preconceptions and cannot reconcile our histories.

Ayakamay will present a stand-alone long-duration performance in the DSC Annex on the evening of Friday, May 19th. The artist invites us to penetrate this singular hotel, a place dyed to a certain redness between the sanguine and the carnal, an unsettling surface that we see crossing the planes of image and the space, a red that seduces and deceives us with its violent passivity that emulates our voyeurism making us blind to what is secreted in the being of things.

DAVID&SCHWEITZER CONTEMPORARY
56 Bogart St, Brooklyn, NY 11206

Please visit art new york official website, or Licht Feld Gallery official website for more information.

IN FLAGRANTI feat. AYAKAMAY – Kachi Kachi EP

1. Das Komplex – Tonight, Good Night
2. Das Komplex Bonus Beat
3. In Flagranti – Pokkit Pokitt!! (Dub)
4. Mytron – You Only Live Once

Publishing: Top of The Month Music (ASCAP)
Produced by IN FLAGRANTI
CRE.049
codek.com

Get your vinyl at your local online or vinyl stores!

***Reviews***

Disco’s kings of pawn shop gear, pound bin vinyl and flea market erotica return to their long running Codek imprint via this curious collaboration with New York based conceptual artist Ayakamay. The label tell me that this 12″ features remixes from Das Komplex & Mytron, though the lines between the originals and remixes seems to be pretty blurry. From what I can gather from a good old listen, In Flagranti have recorded some half-spoken/half-rapped Japanese vocals from Ayakamay, then the three production outfits have gone ba nay nay in their respective studios to create an EP of seriously wonky discoid sounds. Das Komplex opens the set with “Tonight, Good Night”, a lurid trip through futuristic street adverts and designer drugs featuring all kind of swirling, squidgy bass weirdness and grumping drums. Switching between fully funky disco segments and stuttering house breakdowns, this is one of the stranger tracks I’ve heard of late and is all the better for it. After a brief bit of “Bonus Beat” (when the beat’s this crazed, you know you’ll be rocking it), In Flagranti throw their hat into the dilated ring, toasting those spoken vocals over a deep, dubwise riddem awash with echo and sci-fi laser fire. It falls to London-based Mytron to bring the curtain down with the scuzzy disco of “You Only Live Once”. As you’d expect from a man who spends his fair share of studio time with In Flagranti’s Sasa, this wonky groove has all the VHS scuzz, cut and paste roughness and full scale sleaze of a vintage Codek release. This is music for the dingier disco.
– piccadillyrecords.com

It would be fair to say that In Flagranti’s latest EP, a collaborative affair alongside New York based performance artist Ayamakay, is one of the best things they’ve put out in ages. This is due in no small part to their smart choice of remixers. Polish dub-head Das Komplex does a terrific job on the A-side, stretching out a spacey, dubbed-out groove, before twisting “Tonight, Good Night” into a bustling, dub disco masterpiece. For those who dig the Idjuts style disco dub drums, he’s also delivered a tasty Bonus Beat version. On the flip, In Flagranti themselves deliver a smoker-friendly Dub of “Pokkit Pokkit”, while Dutchman-in-London gives “You Only Live Once” the full glitch-clad punk-funk treatment.
–  juno.co.uk

Ayakamay is proud to announce the new release of the print Quiet Lunch magazine book N°3!

NOW AVAILABLE AT BARNES & NOBLE IN CITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
HEAD OVER TO A B&N NEAR YOU AND GET YOUR COPY TODAY!!!

Quiet Lunch | Book N°3 | Genderless

Cover Feature: Ayakamay
Photographer: Ventiko
Featuring: Georgina Billington / Mia Morgan / Megan Tatem / Timothy Bloom / Robert Petrick / Tangina Stone / Nate Lewis / Daliah Ammar / Phil V. / Cakes Da Killa / Visionary Art Project / Voss / Agni Zotis / Erica Simone / Achok Majak / E. Brady Robinson / Hal Hefner / Rajni Perera / Jordan Almen / Alex Stoddard / Melodie Provenzano / Hayley McCulloch / Autumn Lundberg / Orlando Arocena / Cesilie Anandi / Leah Yerpe

#Ayakamay

Photo by Ventiko

Performed by Ayakamay
“Happy Birthday, Seriously, America. 2016”
at Ideal Glass, NYC, U.S.A.
May 7th, 2016

Thank you for coming and also be part of the performance piece, “Happy Birthday, seriously, America. 2016” at the Quiet Lunch magazine launch party at Ideal Glass.
I had a great time celebrating the Quiet Lunch magazine cover with all of you.
I’m very proud of my team who work very very hard to keep Ayakamay running, and thank you to the Quiet Lunch magazine crew for this great opportunity, I appreciate this very depply, and also so grateful for these chances to get to meet all of you with full of love.
Thank you so much and ARIGATO BIG TIME!!

Kisses,

Ayakamay