iYi
Formed by Runa Ikeda, Frida Eun Ae Yngvesson and Shinichiro Ikeda in Berlin in 2016, iYi is an interdisciplinary art collective creating site specific and immersive performances and installations.
We are interested in how sound, movement and different forms of visuals can blend together and form holistic experiences in physical installations or live performances. Our practice is based on instant composition, improvisation and embodiment.
As a collective we explore themes such as dreams, rituals, fantasy, eeriness and juxtapositions. Our work is often shown in unconventional spaces such as outdoor plazas, libraries and bars. This is and has always been one of the main inspirations for us, how to bring the performance to different audiences in unexpected places and circumstances.
Frida Yngvesson
Frida Eun Ae Yngvesson is a contemporary dancer and physical performer who graduated from the Ballet Academy of Gothenburg, Sweden in 2007.
She has worked with choreographers and artists such as Alexandra Pirici, Meagan O’Shea, Grace Euna Kim, Anna Asplind, Daniel Gonzalez, Marcel Tarelkin, Rory Pilgrim and Christian Falsnaes.
Frida also created her own works „Human Sample“ (2016), „if you ever get close“ (2017) and „used to be a poetic landscape“ (2018), in collaboration with Marie Rechsteiner as Yngvesson/Rechsteiner. She is a member of The Audio Ballerinas, an interdisciplinary company within the fields of
dance, sound and site-specific performances, led by artist Benoit Maubrey.
Runa Ikeda
Runa Ikeda studied illustration at the Tokyo Design Academy, where she graduated in 2010.
During her studies she also started to express herself
through paintings. She has exhibited her artworks around the world in galleries such as Gallery Mommsen35(Berlin), Frontvews(Berlin) and Dorado gallery(Tokyo) among others.
Runa is inspired by the deep psyche and the in-between, which we all have inside ourselves. She also draws inspiration from dreams and the antithetical, which is shown through her paintings.
Shinichiro Ikeda
Shinichiro Ikeda
Shinichiro Ikeda is a Berlin-based composer and sound artist exploring the fragile dialogues between nature, memory, and human presence. Using synthesizers, field recordings, and spatial audio, he creates immersive works that blur the line between the tangible and the ephemeral, opening spaces for subtle perception. His practice spans solo performances, the Japan–Germany duo mii89 with Yuuki Asamura, and Berlin’s iyi collective, where sound intersects with movement and visual art. Bridging analog warmth with contemporary technologies, Ikeda’s projects reveal how sound shapes both conscious and subconscious experience.
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