KIHOU – A bowl of liquid light

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Created by tangent:, a design studio based in London and Tokyo, KIHOU (April 2013) is a bubbling brew of liquid light. Served in a small ceramic cube is a sticky translucent liquid, covered with a thin layer of black silicone oil. Fixed to the bottom of the pot: LED lights and a small pump. As air is pushed into the liquid, luminous "golden" bubbles break through the pitch-black surface. A striking contrast the studio describes as "mysterious". If applied to a larger bowl (see images below) KIHOU becomes a tarry soup with molten spots, viscous, pulsating, primordial. "The elements breath life into the object," says tangent:'s website, turning KIHOU into something the designers hope "people can feel affinity for and sympathise with."

Studio tangent: was founded by Hideki Yoshimoto (Royal College of Art) and Yoshinaka Ono (Dentsu Inc) in 2013 and recently received the first international Lexus Design Award for the kinetic light installation INHAO.

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Published by Alexander Scholz

Alexander Scholz is a Berlin-based writer, artistic director, cultural worker, and publicist. As the founder and creative director of HOLO, an editorial and curatorial platform interested in emergent creative practice, he helps produce and disseminate knowledge on disciplinary interstices, artistic research, and cultural transformations in the digital age. Over the past few years, he curated exhibitions, conferences, and educational programmes for organizations and festivals including A.C.C. (Gwangju, KR), Mapping (Geneva, CH), MUTEK (Montréal, CA), and NODE Forum for Digital Arts (Frankfurt, DE).

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