Dai Asano

Morning Shower

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

One Wednesday morning, we 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 on their own terms.
Press Release

Photography by Beatriz Meseguer

Motion Graphic: Lingyi Kong

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 I explored the present in the city by simply slowing down myself.

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."

About

Dai Asano
b. 1996,Japan
New York, NY
info@daiasano.com

Dai Asano (b. 1996, Japan) is an artist based in New York. He creates an ephemeral public art through movement and sound in New York city.

After studying business and working in corporate Japan, he left this path to pursue Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he developed a practice focused on art as an experience. Although trained in the photography department, his approach to time moves in the opposite direction—rather than capturing it, he lets it pass.

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Education

2024 M.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, RI, USA

2020 B.A. Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Residency/Awards

2025 2025 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, NY

2024 International Summer Program, The Watermill Center, NY

2022 RISD Fellowship

2021 Portrait of Japan, Shortlist, Tokyo, Japan

IMA next STORY, Shortlist, Tokyo, Japan

Group Show

2025 In/Between, Ford Foundation Live Gallery, NY

2024 Wink, Nudge, Microscope Gallery, NY

Embodied Collection, The Dye House, Providence, RI

Home/World, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI

The Unspeakable State, Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI

2022 Im Nebel, Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI

2021 Portrait of Japan, Shibuya Bus Stops, Shibuya, Tokyo

Currently:

2025 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program
Upcoming:

Photography: Tam Stockton

Essay

2025

April

March

Press Release

Statement

Morning Shower
Art as an Experience

2024

June

　

RISD MFA Thesis

I am becoming.