Program

2025.11.9

Onsite Talk 

To create in Japan—thinking through locality

Guests

Anais-karenin

 (Artist)

Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho

 (Artist)

Law Yuk Mui

 (Artist)

Sareena Sattapon

 (Artist)

Host

Kana Miyazawa

 (Curator)

Talk Curator

Kana Miyazawa

 (Curator)

To create in Japan—thinking through locality

Date & Time:

November 9 14:00–15:30

Venue:

Science Museum 1F Welcome Area (behind the entrance)

Admission:

Free on a first-come, first-served basis. (A separate EASTEAST_TOKYO 2025 ticket is required for entry.)

Language:

Japanese
※Japanese and English subtitles provided via automatic transcription and translation.

Guest

Anais-karenin (Artist)

Anais-kerenin’s practice is intimately engaged with the liminal states of plants-stones-entities—evoking them as ancestry through which she questions the historical heritage of contemporary relations with matter. In her process, she incorporates peripheral knowledge systems, deep research, and transduction methodologies. Translating herbal substances into vibrational sounds, gardens, scents, and installations, her process highlights intuitive communication as a methodology through which she critically reflects on history, language, territory and science.
Anais-karenin concluded her PhD in Arts and has exhibited at Towada Art Center Museum (Japan), Villa Merkel (Germany), Museum of Contemporary Art Niterói (Brazil), and The Museum of Modern Art Gunma (Japan). She was selected for the Singapore Art Museum (SAM) Residency Program, Tokyo Arts & Space (TOKAS) Local Creator Program, and has presented in institutions such as Oxford University and the United Unions Conference.

Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho (Artist)

Michael Rikio Ming Hee Ho (b. 1996, Kamuela, Hawaiʻi) is a Hawaii-born, Tokyo-based artist whose shaped, text-based paintings use illusion and language to map emotional and cultural dissonance. Through a diaristic intimacy, Ho frames short handwritten phrases against trompe-l’œil surfaces that suggest sculptural form. Informed by semiotics and sociolinguistics, Ho approaches language as spatial structure, where the tone of the text remains deliberately unstable, inseparable from its physical setting of the canvas.
His recent paintings incorporate references to Hawaiian flora and Paniolo cowboys, drawing on personal memory and cultural complexity without collapsing into biography.
Ho is third-generation Cantonese American and fifth-generation Japanese American. Raised on Hawaiʻi Island, his work reflects a lived experience of linguistic drift, peripheral belonging, and hybrid cultural space. He has exhibited in Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, New York, and Los Angeles, including presentations at Art Busan, Tokyo Gendai, and Taipei Dangdai.

Law Yuk Mui (Artist)

Law Yuk-mui is a multidisciplinary artist and art educator. Since 2022, she has been living and working between Chiba, Japan, and Hong Kong.
Using “expanded cinema” as her artistic expression, and adopting the methodology of field study and collecting, she often intervenes in the mundane space and daily life of the city and catches the physical traces of history, psychological pathways of humans, the marks of time and the political power in relation to geographic space. Sound is the anchor point in Law’s creation. Her interests comprise the political and cultural rhetoric of sound, with sound as bodily memory, and orchestrate the interplay among sound, text and visual.
Law Yuk-mui was shortlisted for the Foundwork Artist Prize in 2021, and received the Award for Young Artist (Media Art Category) from the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards as well as the Excellence Award (Media Art Category) at the 23rd IFVA Awards in 2018.

Sareena Sattapon (Artist)

Born 1992, in Thailand. Sareena Sattapon is a visual artist who is currently completing a PhD in Global Art Practice, at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Sattapon works with various mediums such as performance, installation and photography. She gets her artistic inspiration from her experiences and ordinary life. Sattapon’s interest in the impermanence of artworks, related to death and loneliness.
She has had exhibitions internationally: in Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, China, Indonesia, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Norway and Japan.

Host

Kana Miyazawa (Curator)

Kana Miyazawa graduated from the University of Melbourne with a degree in Art History and Anthropology. After working at art institutions in Australia and commercial galleries in Japan, she completed her Master’s degree in Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices at the Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. In 2025, Miyazawa is an assistant curator at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. She has also been involved with art-related publications and projects as a freelance translator and interpreter.
Her curatorial projects include Waves of Color (2018, Blak Dot Gallery, Melbourne), Pepper’s Ghost (2023, The 5th Floor, Tokyo), apart(m.o)ment (2024, Amsterdam), and FOUND! Taro Maruyama × Keisuke Yamamoto (2024, Tokyo).