Polyphony of thermal palpation
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Miyu Imajuku
- subsidy category
- Startup Grant
- Grant Type
- single year individual
FY2024 1st Startup Grant
Business Overview
Planned by Miyu Imajuku, who works across the fields of poetry and performance art. It was developed as an installation using text and voice in multiple languages, starting with an interactive performance "Thermotactile Therapy" that reconstructs relationships through physical contact and heat.
In the performance, participants and artists face each other one-on-one, dipping their hands in heated paraffin and repeatedly forming a membrane to share tactile and physical sensations. Based on these memories, seven literary scholars with different native languages (Poet, translator, essayist) wrote the text. By combining these linguistic records with the reading voice, the exhibition space with multi-layered "voices" was constructed.
Utilizing the unique space of a former clinic as the venue, themes such as "treatment," "regeneration," and "sensory rehabilitation" were included in the background. It is an experimental exhibition on physicality and language, polyphonic recording, and relationships with others.
- Period of Activity / Project
- Saturday, April 26, 2025 to Sunday, April 27
- Venues
- Preparatory Clinic (Hachioji City, Tokyo)
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Profile
Miyu Imajuku
Born in 2000. She works in the fields of poetry, performance, and media arts.
In order to search for a "soft and secure point of integration" with oneself, others, and the world, he has constructed devices and situations that shake the contours of the human body (fuse or divide), and has performed a trial performance involving himself and others. These devices and situations sometimes take the form of poetry (words) and sometimes emerge as concrete objects.
His main works include “Thermal Touch Therapy, ” in which the viewer is immersed in heated paraffin liquid (wax) repeatedly while holding hands to preserve the shape, and“ Pressure-Pleasure, ” in which the viewer is placed in a compressed bag and the air is removed, allowing the viewer to experience the fusion/split state of the moment when the body is pressed.
He received the 1st Nishiwaki Junzaburo Award for Rookie of the Year. His main publications include a collection of poems, "Practice for Returning" (Jugyudo).