Shirotama HITSUJIYA / Akiko SAKATA / Kent MORI

Shirotama HITSUJIYA

Shirotama Hitsujiya is the artistic director at Yubiwa Hotel. She is also a playwright, director, and performer. After a performance that connected New York and Tokyo through broadband given in the middle of the confusion of the September 11 attacks, she has continued to perform overseas. She has also presented site-specific works cooperating with local people in cities and nature at art festivals in Japan, such as the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale and Sapporo International Art Festival. She founded the Asian Women Performing Arts Collective (Ajokai in Japanese) to play a role that would influence Asia, women, and performance art. She was named one of “The 100 Most Influential Japanese Women in the World” by Newsweek Japan.

Akiko SAKATA

Akiko Sakata is a molding artist. She has been the art director at Yubiwa Hotel since 1992 while studying at Musashino School of Art, Department of Sculpture. In 2010, she started a made-to-order brand called “DIET CHICKEN” centered on animal motifs. In the “Asakusa Collection 2013”, she produced a hand-drawn carp pattern costume, formed a marching carp band composed and conducted by Kojima Keitaney Love, and marched in Asakusa. She produced collaboration goods at “TONOFON FESTIVAL 2010-2017” sponsored by Shugo Tokumaru.

Kent MORI

Kent Mori is a Ph.D., assistant researcher at Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science.
In 2015, Kent Mori received his doctorate from the School of Science at the University of Tokyo with his paper on the hind limb bones of the sea otter. Currently he is carrying out research on three-dimensional modeling of museum natural history specimens using photogrammetry. Some of the works of this exhibition are part of the research subsidized by JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research JP17K12967.