"Over the past two decades, the Japanese artist Aki Sasamoto has developed a unique performance/installation practice in which she produces installations of absurd sculptural devices-from haemorrhoid cushions to oversized fishing lures-that, in turn, serve as an object-based score and environment for improvised performances that combine humorous spoken narratives with physical actions and mark-making. The artist's first mid-career survey, Aki Sasamoto's Life Laboratory at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), traces the evolution of this practice through a sharp combination of installations, documentation and live performances."
"Dance and sculpture are very close for me. The relationship between one body and another is similar to that between a body and another entity that also occupies the space. Sometimes a body can act like an object, such as when someone stays still or moves slowly, while an object can move on its own, like when the weather changes or something breaks. The difference is that humans are more complicated psychologically, because I can empathise with how they feel."
Aki Sasamoto produces absurd sculptural installations—ranging from haemorrhoid cushions to oversized fishing lures—that function as object-based scores and environments for improvised performances. Performances blend humorous spoken narratives, physical actions, and mark-making, often driven by improvisation and audience response. A mid-career survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo presents installations, documentation, and live performances to map the practice's development. A background in dance and sculpture informs a spatial logic where bodies and objects interchange roles. Storytelling emerges from observed everyday speech and spontaneous improvisational moments, leading to deliberate integration of language into performance structures.
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