Dai Asano

Morning Shower

Participatory Performance
April 23rd, 2025
8:30 am - 9:30 am
42 St Bryant Park - 5 Av

Participants chanted in a subway corridor during the rush of commuters. The chanting was limited to vowel sounds, with each participant vocalizing in their own way. There was no score. Participants could enter and leave the piece whenever they wished, returning to their everyday lives.

Photography by On White Wall

Passage Piece
2024
The Watermill Center, NY 11976
The Annual Summer Benefit
July 27, 2024
Performance
20 choirs

Passage piece is the time and space-specific work presented at the Watermill Center on July 27th, 2024. An installation performed by 20 vocalists chanting creates an immersive experience that the audience passes through one by one. The project draws inspiration from Japanese tea ceremony and deepens the artist’s exploration of the “Present” and the transitional spaces between life and performance.

Photo by
Maria Baranova
and
Lindsay Morris

Ma, in between
2024
Video Installation,
Two LCD Displays,
48 minutes
Loop

This was my thesis work presented in the 10 x 10 feet room with a directional speaker. This was my attempt to create an audio visual experience of "waiting" through a video documentation of my performance. In performance, I walked toward and away from camera taking 48 minutes.

Prince St

2024
Video Performance
13min

n=0
2024
Video Performance
13min

Galileo Galilei
2024
Video Performance

I walked from one point to another for 6 hours.

5 Seconds

2023
Photography, 20 x 26 inch

This was my attempt to use photography to experience time as performance. I held my breath for the duration of the shutter speed, 5 sec, 10 sec, 30 sec, and 60 seconds. I wasn't able to be still and the traffic was gone. There was nothing still, this led me to my exploration of present and "nothingness."

10 Seconds
2023
Photography, 20 x 26 inch

This was my attempt to use photography to experience time as performance. I held my breath for the duration of the shutter speed, 5 sec, 10 sec, 30 sec, and 60 seconds. I wasn't able to be still and the traffic was gone. There was nothing still, this led me to my exploration of present and "nothingness."

30 Seconds
2023
Photography, 20 x 26 inch

This was my attempt to use photography to experience time as performance. I held my breath for the duration of the shutter speed, 5 sec, 10 sec, 30 sec, and 60 seconds. I wasn't able to be still and the traffic was gone. There was nothing still, this led me to my exploration of present and "nothingness."

60 Seconds
2023
Photography, 20 x 26 inch

This was my attempt to use photography to experience time as performance. I held my breath for the duration of the shutter speed, 5 sec, 10 sec, 20 sec, 30 sec, and 60 seconds. I wasn't able to be still and the traffic was gone. There was nothing still, this led me to my exploration of present and "nothingness."

10 minutes
2023
Performance, 10 min

This work explores time itself as a readymade object. What is art? Where does art exist? Is it in an object or the mind of the audience? These questions led me to wonder if time itself can become a work of art. Time is something we all have, yet it is intangible. Time comes and goes or time is chasing us. I even wonder if time exists. The audience experiences 10 minutes as 10 minutes.

Cassette tapes
2023
Installation
cassette tapes, fish wires
1.5x1.5x2.2m

The Sound of Relationship

2021
Photography