Mio Harada and Shoko Imai

Mio Harada is a Tokyo-based performer/curator/writer and a candidate of the MA Global Arts (Curation) at Tokyo University of the Arts. She has participated in numerous performance pieces over the last twelve years. In 2020, she co-curated the online exhibition Alter-narratives, where she investigated different possibilities of exhibiting art during the time of COVID-19. She is also director of the feminist artist collective ‘the fuu’.

Performances

Performances include: As You Exit To, Goethe Institut, Tokyo (2020); Hello, Mosquito live broadcast (2020); Hey, White Rabbit. Don’t Forget your watch, Higashi-nakano Vanilla Studio, Tokyo (2019).

Shoko Imai is a Japanese art director, set designer, graphic designer, and a candidate of the MA Global Arts (Research) at Tokyo University of the Arts. She has studied performing arts at Central Saint Martins and Goldsmiths, University of London, returning to Japan following the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic. She recently collaborated with Mio Harada in the performance production As You Exit To (Goethe Institut, Tokyo, 2020), undertaking poster design, lighting design and video production.

Website: asyouexitto.tumblr.com