Susie Kozawa: Tokio Florist Project
In May 2024, Jack Straw and Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences (AVIA) presented an accessible youth and family art workshop with resident artist Susie Kozawa in conjunction with the New Media Gallery installation Tokio Florist Project, a collaboration with Brigid Kelly that turned Susie’s childhood home into an immersive audiovisual experience.
After an audio description of the installation by Jesse Minkert, participants used portable recorders to search for interesting sounds throughout Jack Straw’s spaces. Susie then helped the group construct their own sound instruments from ordinary objects, similar to those heard in the Tokio Florist Project.
Alongside Jack Straw audio engineers Daniel Guenther and Ayesha Ubayatilaka, participants recorded sounds produced by the new sound instruments and compiled them into a soundscape.
Listen: Tokio Florist Workshop Soundscape
This program was made possible with support from the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture, Washington State Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington State Department of Services for the Blind, and individual contributors.
Artists
Susie Kozawa
Susie Kozawa, a sound artist, composer and performer, works mostly with sound collages and site-specific installations, in which the gathering of sounds is a primary activity. She explores different…
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Jesse Minkert
Jesse Minkert’s work has appeared in about fifty literary journals including the Cream City Review, Confrontation, Mount Hope, the Floating Bridge Review, the Minetta Review, Poetry Northwest, Common Knowledge…
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