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NONOTAK
NONOTAK is the collaboration of artist/illustrator, Noémi Schipfer, and architect/musician, Takami Nakamoto. Commissioned to create a mural in the lobby of the XXX Public Housing building in Paris, Nakamoto and Schipfer seized the opportunity to create a work that would create a unique and immersive environment, capitalizing on Nakamoto’s background in architecture and Schipfer’s experience as an illustrator. Using phosphorescent paint (which by day appears white and glows green at night), they created a painted landscape that was part mural,...NONOTAK is the collaboration of artist/illustrator, Noémi Schipfer, and architect/musician, Takami Nakamoto. Commissioned to create a mural in the lobby of the XXX Public Housing building in Paris, Nakamoto and Schipfer seized the opportunity to create a work that would create a unique and immersive environment, capitalizing on Nakamoto’s background in architecture and Schipfer’s experience as an illustrator. Using phosphorescent paint (which by day appears white and glows green at night), they created a painted landscape that was part mural, part light installation— a piece that was environmentally contextual, and turned a nondescript entrance to a Public Housing building into an ever-changing visual narrative for its residents. Thus, Nonotak was born.

What began as an exploration of the relationship between space and light with little attachment to the end product, has developed into a full-blown installation-based collaboration creating controlled sound and light environments in which viewers can fully interact with the work. A true collaboration, NONOTAK draws on and incorporates the strengths of its two collaborators to create work that could not have been created singally. In this case, the sum of the total outweighs the sums of its discreet parts. As an illustrator, Noémi Schipfer, brings with her an interested in the kinetic visual— how visual movement can be generated with lines and primitive geometry. As an architect and musician, Takami Nakamoto, approaches sounds as space and space as sound.

The result is the creation of light and sound installations, which obscure their methods of construction, creating an ethereal and dreamlike environment meant to envelope the viewer. Spectators are encouraged to touch, walk into, and submerge themselves in the altered environments created by NONOTAK’s installations. Each NONOTAK installation is site-specific, allowing for fluidity and spontaneity in the creative process. A NONOTAK installation is never considered “finished” but rather receives a version number with each different iteration.

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