Born 1980, Kanagawa, Japan
Lives and works in Kanagawa

Michiko Tsuda’s choreographies of space are created through the careful arrangement of planes and screens, playing on the expectations and perceptions of viewers. Her influences include a background in engineering, the movement of actors in the films of Yasujiro Ozu, and the avant-garde dance of Yvonne Rainer. Tsuda’s works often incorporate live performances, produced in collaboration with professional choreographers and other artists.

Looking back is a subtle yet spellbinding ‘trialogue’ — an interplay of frames, mirrors and screens complicated by a fading between real-time, delayed and occasionally pre-recorded footage. Tsuda has also applied the system in spaces ranging from an historic Edo-period residence, a ‘white cube’ gallery space and a boutique in a high-end shopping centre. In APT10, the work is presented in two positions within GOMA to explore the modes of engagement produced by the architecture of different spaces within a single building. Though modular, Tsuda’s transpositions attempt to answer a question that has faced artists since early 2020: how to imbue a work with site-specificity while working remotely.

_{Supported by the Australia-Japan Foundation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Ishibashi Foundation and the Japan Foundation.}