Performing Acupuncture (Installation)
Aya Momose
Tokyo
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Performing Acupuncture (Installation)
Aya Momose
Tokyo
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What do we desire or imagine when acupuncture needles enter our bodies? In the Incubation Pod, Aya Momose presents a tactile therapy performance in which bodies become the stage. While bodily proximity and touch became taboo in some parts of the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, in this performance the Japanese artist risks direct contact through acupuncture needles, exploring the boundaries between the conscious and the unconscious, pain and pleasure, treatment and sensuality.
‘Performing Acupuncture’ is accessible to all visitors as a specially designed space and video installation during the opening hours of the Incubation Pod. The video installation is closed during performance times. The intimate acupuncture performance can be experienced by one person at a time: individual performance slots can be booked here.
©Theater Commons Tokyo ’21
Photo: Shun Sato
About the Artist(s)
Aya Momose began her artistic practice with oil painting. She currently develops performances and captures them on video, rethinking the moving image itself. Her recent work focuses on bodies, interrogating themes of sexuality and gender. Her project ‘Exchange Diary’, developed in collaboration with Im Heung-soon, was selected for the Korea Cinemascape section of the 20th Jeonju International Film Festival. Momose’s works have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art and the Yokohama Museum of Art.