Interview – Yukio Fujimoto

The interview with Yukio Fujimoto was conducted by Larissa Rauch and David Fischbach as part of the exhibition ‘phono/graph – sound letters graphics’ at the Dortmunder U in 2012. A limited edition of the printed version of the interview was published in German and Japanese in 2014.

Yukio Fujimoto was born in Nagoya in 1950. He graduated from the Faculty of Musicology at Osaka University of Arts. In the mid-1980s, Fujimoto began creating devices and sound objects by focusing on the sounds of everyday life. His ongoing projects, which include installations, performances and workshops, utilise the experience of sound in space to open up new avenues of perception for participants. Fujimoto exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2001 and 2007 and is a professor in the Department of Information Design at Kyoto University of the Arts.