Substantials # 01

Substantials # 01 is about the sound workshop of the CCA, a non-profit organization based in Kitakyushu, opened in May 1997. CCA is an uniquely-conceived institute for study and research in contemporary art.
It purposes to establish in Kitakyushu a world center for contemporary arts that generate new ideas and perspectives, and network closely with artists, the curators/critics and the many other institutions.
CCA Kitakyushu is to be established as a world center for study and research in contemporary art to be operated from a global perspective. Its function is to be a forum for communication, where artists and curators/critics and specialists from various fields can discuss over the table. The dialogue occurs with their expert knowledge in order to explore the new modes of creativities and possibilities.
As part of its program, CCA Kitakyushu carries out a variety of collaborative projects with the internationally recognized artists as professorship. Commensurate with a role as a research institution, major areas of focus is to build the library of collection on contemporary art of catalogues and audio-visual works: also, to utilize extensively the information resources available on a bidirectionally constructed network with leading institutions in the field of arts around the world.