Fellows

Conversations and Listening, Poetics and Politics of the Wounded Presence - Aine Nakamura

(c) Poh Yu Khing. Courtesy of The Listening Biennial Singapore

1 - 31 May 2026

Aine Nakamura ( Japan, United States )

During her residency, when the Statue of Peace, Ari, also resides at ZK/U, Aine Nakamura will engage in her quiet listening and conversations with Ari, the Ari in Transit community, Museum der Trostfrauen, poetry book A Cruelty Special to Our Species by Emily Jungmin Yoon, and in her reflection of visiting The War and Women's Human Rights Museum in Seoul last year as a part of her listening practice. In addition, she will focus on exploring her art language through her daily practice of voice and body. She will study her own process and score-making, taking time to reflect and examine her past works and what the possibilities of her intersectional art-making are, while creating new works and methods. She was initially pulled by ZK/U, the environment where formally trains gathered and departed with the historical context of war and violence, and where community and buildings are made newly and uniquely—she will engage in her two projects while attuning to the transborder potentialities of the spaces and conversations.

During her residency, in addition to the above projects, she will present her recent performance work Breath In This World on May 28, 2026.

(c) Hoong Wei Long. Courtesy of The Listening Biennial Singapore

upon hands on tape (c) Natalie Jenkins. Courtesy of The Lab, SF.

(c) Andrea Avezzu?. Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia

Circle Hasu We plant seeds in the spring of mountains (c) Ayaka Fujii. Courtesy of The Gallatin Galleries, NYC.

This project is funded by the Center for Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley.