Japanese sound / sculpture / performance artist,
born in Tokyo, Japan, 1964
lives and works in Tokyo

Tokyo based Muneteru produces work informed by the urban experience, domesticity fused with club and dance music, the interpretation of musical histories, technological capabilities and the sophisticated transformation of domestic and popular ready-made objects into hybrid musical instruments. Muneteru’s practice is concerned with adaptations of language - musical, written and spoken, and the common connection established through a ‘lost in translation’ experience of dance culture. Controlling the performance from a platform of turntables, switch panels and instruments made from found recycled articles including a blender, hair-dryer, electric drill, food processor and bicycle, Muneteru’s sounds trigger responses from the vehicle, which flashes in time with the variable beats.

Ujino’s work has been featured in leading galleries and festivals around the world including: Super Deluxe, Tokyo, Japan; Artspace, Sydney, Australia; Galleria d’Art Moderna, Bologna, Italy; Barbican Gallery, London, UK; and at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand. Ujino has toured extensively with his Tokyo GlamRock band Gorgereous and had performed at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria; the Sound Madness festival at the Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff, Canada; and the Melbourne Fringe Festival in Melbourne, Australia. His project The Rotators was recently included in the Biennale of Sydney 2006. In 2002 a book about Ujino’s work was published by iMMprint Tokyo GlamRock, the work of Matsukage and Ujino edited by Chris Horrocks.