Art in the New normal

The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly impacted all arts sectors, including performing artists. In this special online interview series, meet Japanese diasporic artists who share how they are responding, adapting and pivoting in these unprecedented times.

Akiko Yamashita

Shoshi Watanabe

traci kato-kiriyama

Gajin Fujita

Marissa Osato

Mark de Clive-Lowe

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Akiko Yamashita

Akiko Yamashita is a Japanese artist best known for projection mapping and light installations currently based in Los Angeles. Her artworks explore visual illusions with prism-inspired full spectrum of colors.

Shoshi Watanabe

Shoshi Watanabe works with interior design, hotel projects, dishware for restaurants, and exhibits sculptures and installations as an artist.

traci kato-kiriyama

traci kato-kiriyama is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer/author, actor, arts educator & community organizer.

Gajin Fujita

Gajin Fujita is an artist who blends Japanese techniques and symbols with Western urban, pop culture to create visually contrasting masterpieces that transcend space and time.

Marissa Osato

Marissa is a choreographer, director, and dance educator who creates emotionally-driven, embodied narratives through a sociocultural lens, and whose choreographic language exhibits a sense of rhythm and dynamism, of groundedness and abandon, of stillness and intimacy.

Mark de Clive-Lowe

Mark is an American-based Japanese-New Zealand musician, composer, and producer raised in Auckland and now based in Los Angeles, California. Mark performed his signature Heritage album series at the Aratani Theatre in 2019.