Received her M.F.A. from Graduate School of Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts. With an interest in the rather ‘ambiguous’ creative process of paintings, Nohara creates works by using self-made tools such as rulers and paper patterns. She has taken part in multiple workshops in various parts of Japan, and has also worked on collaborative works. By interacting with others and incorporating this into her works, she explores new possibilities of paintings. Her recent exhibitions include “Organized confusion” (gallery TOWD , Tokyo, Japan, 2020), “Asuka Art Village 2019 Round Trip” (Nara Prefecture Complex of Man’yo Culture observation lobby , Nara, Japan, 2019).

Born in Tokyo in 1989. Graduated from Department of Moving Images and Performing Arts, Faculty of Art and Communication Evening Division, Tama Art University. He works on photography, video and installation while focusing on the periphery of cities and architecture such as underdrain, attics, under the floor, ancient mounds, and vacant lots. Through his actions as if he were playing around, he connects blank spaces created in the midst of social changes with individual body and emotions as if tying them together like a collage. His recent exhibitions include his solo show “Super Play” (Token Art Center, Tokyo, 2019) and art project “Hikikomisen/Hoshasen” (Absorption/Radiation), (Dai 19 Hokuto Bldg., Saitama, 2019).

Choreographer and dancer.
Kamimura has been choreographing and performing her own pieces since 2004 and has performed in and outside Japan. Observing the body from various aspects such as a substance, language and relationships with others, she makes works by reconstructing them. While performing solos, she started “Zen-go” with TAKASHIMA Shinichi in 2011 and “babytooth” with TSUDA Michiko in 2016. She also works as an administration member of “Dance Strategy Meeting” since 2018. Her recent works include Strange Green Powder (Festival/Tokyo 19, Tokyo), Screen Baby #2 as babytooth in 2020 (Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo).

HIRAKURA Kei (b. 1977, Japan) is an art theorist and art critic. His works explore the materially embodied process of thought in art making. Hirakura obtained his Ph.D in Interdisciplinary Information Studies from the University of Tokyo in 2009. He teaches art theory at Yokohama National University as an associate professor. He has authored several books on modern and contemporary art, film, and performance, including How Figures Think: Studies of Art Making, University of Tokyo Press, 2019; and Godard’s Method(s), Inscript, 2010.