“Home Recordings”
Makiko Yamamoto
27 Jan → 18 Feb 2012

Home Recordings is an installation that arose out of conversations whilst painting my nails with someone else’s nail polish. My fingernails began to control my fingers; I became submissive towards my fingernails.

Through the presentation of various types of documents, Makiko Yamamoto reveals intimate fascinations revolving around her body within the home. Often taking an absurd and humorous approach Yamamoto brings her private performances into a public space to assert a physical presence from material often discarded.

Makiko Yamamoto is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Art at the VCA in Melbourne. Her practice deals with the voice as a material to examine its potential as a medium in contemporary art, investigating the position of the voice as it stands in between body and language, between subject and other. Through the absence of the body she brings a psychological reading to the voice, which infiltrates the space. She applies these ideas as triggers for sound-based recordings, digital video and text-based works to create spatial relationships between the viewer and the site. In 2010 Makiko was awarded the West Space VCA Award.