Miho Tsujii / 辻井美穂
Performance Artist, Educator, Critical Collaborator

Miho Tsujii conceives, directs and performs solo and collaborative performance and installation works, intersecting movement, voice, sound, multilingual storytelling, poetic images, and audience interactions to explore regeneration in times of crisis. Miho has developed a performance language with which she dissolves linear, divisive and binary frameworks.

Miho’s works are based on extensive research into East Asian philosophies, cosmology, mythology, ancient language systems, geometry, numerology, musicology, mythology, spiritual traditions, site-context-and-dialogue-based fieldworks, and socio-political-historical backgrounds.

While Miho has emerged out of NY experimental performance art scene, trained in Western art, music and academic studies, Miho’s practice is deeply informed by her training in Japanese traditional arts—Noh dance and vocals, and her family’s lineage of Ikebana art of flower—alongside their underlying conceptual systems.

By combining these techniques and knowledge, Miho interrogates, embodies and activates regenerative, speculative and inter-connective possibilities, as alternatives to the dominant logics of the Western Enlightenment, Renaissance, post-industrial and post-modern paradigms —structures that continue to shape and limit contemporary art and civilization.

Miho also teaches, lectures and workshops at universities, museums and communities, and produces projects across continents. Miho has presented internationally in art and public spaces and in communities surviving catastrophic events, with notable appearances at Mies van Der Rohe Haus (Berlin), DOCK11 (Berlin), Brooklyn Museum (NY), La MaMa Experimental Theater (NY), New York University (Shanghai), Gallery Nomart (Osaka), CUNTethics & SQUATconstellation (online feminist intervention, Berlin-Global) and O-Link House (cultural center for tsunami surviving community, Japan).

Grounded in firsthand experience of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, as well as direct engagements with women survivors of wars and conflicts including “comfort women” survivors of Japan’s military sexual slavery from WWII, her work engages performance as a site of witnessing, repair, and transformation.

She holds an MA in Arts Politics from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and has studied music and drama therapy as well as grief work. She is a member of The Enclave Habitat, Feminist Active Documentary Video Festa, and Director of International Culture & Art Spot, Osaka. Miho was born in Osaka and raised in Dusseldorf and Amsterdam attuned to color lines. She is bi-lingual in English and Japanese and speaks colloquial German and elementary Spanish. Miho is also a shamanic healer.