Tomoko Hojo

info@tomokohojo.net — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:00:00 +0000

2026 2025 NovemberCollaborative performance with Myriam Van Imschoot, Marcus Bergner, YOKE (with Tomoko), Gallery Gallery Inc., Melbourne, Australia, November 2Group Exhibition, Yoshino Art Connect, Spiral, Tokyo, November 13-25UK Premiere of Whispered Screaming, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield, UK, November 24 OctoberPerformance for Eric Thielemans, Permian, October 2Performance with Shohei Hosoi for the screening of two ... Read more

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Pneuma – site specific performance / 2025

info@tomokohojo.net — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:00:24 +0000

pneuma is a performance that evokes invisible presences and forgotten memories lingering in a liminal urban, industrial field, through the ephemeral mediums of breath and wind. Subtle sounds—voices, insect calls, bells, chanting and instruments made from the site’s soil and wind — unfold as a ritual to summon what once was, or may soon vanish. Stirred ... Read more

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Recordari / 2024

info@tomokohojo.net — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:00:45 +0000

How can we share our individual physical sensations through listening and feeling with others?During the three weeks of Artist in Residency at Aichi University of the Arts, Listening Scores were made for several places in the university that normally does not receive much attention, such as noisy chairs at the concert hall, an abundant huge ... Read more

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Taasaesaft – Re-fresh, rhythmic drip, one sip. / 2023

info@tomokohojo.net — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 15:00:16 +0000

The project “Taasaesaft – Re-fresh, rhythmic drip, one sip.” by Rahel Kraft and Tomoko Hojo focuses on a process-oriented exploration of the history of Gais as a whey cure resort. The duo specifically investigates stories related to healing processes and analyzes how the theme of “spa” or “healing” is present in contemporary times. This has ... Read more

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Exhibition Catalogue – Unfinished Descriptions / 2023

info@tomokohojo.net — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 15:00:13 +0000

A documentation of sound artist Tomoko Hojo’s solo exhibition ‘Unfinished Descriptions’, held in London, 2018. Based on research about Yoko Ono’s previous solo exhibition ‘Unfinished Paintings and Objects’ (Indica Gallery, London, 1966), this show explored the works not documented there and Ono’s silence. Limited edition 300. Released in February 2023 through yoin press. Order now ... Read more

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Antechamber Of E. E.の準備室 / 2022

info@tomokohojo.net — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 15:00:14 +0000

What if we added a sonic collection to the city library of Komaki? This initial question led to a listening space in the entrance area of the library where over 400 sounds could be heard continuously. Set as a compositional piece, the listener was exposed to a constantly changing score in 10-minute frame. The sources, ... Read more

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Texere / 2022

info@tomokohojo.net — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:00:41 +0000

An ancient metaphor: thought is a thread, and the raconteur is a spinner of yarns – but the true storyteller, the poet, is a weaver. The scribes made this old and audible abstraction into a new and visible fact. After long practice, their work took on such an even, flexible texture that they called the ... Read more

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Whispered Screaming / 2022

info@tomokohojo.net — Fri, 27 May 2022 15:00:04 +0000

This performance ‘Whispered Screaming’ was first presented at the concert ‘Japanese Woman Experimental Sound Artists’, which I curated at the Emily Harvey Foundation, NYC. The work is based on a soundtrack from Yoko Ono’s past discography, in which the screams (the parts that have no lyrics and are pure screaming) are extracted and re-recorded in ... Read more

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11 pieces from 16 A4 sized pages / 2022

info@tomokohojo.net — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:00:59 +0000

This work is about the circulation of documentations, their replay, and reinterpretation, based on archival materials including works of Yoko Ono and Fluxus at the New York Public Library, and interventions towards them. The work consists of three elements. First, A video recording of an improvised performance using archival materials as “instruments”. This was created ... Read more

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touch – Video score and performance (2021)

info@tomokohojo.net — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 15:00:02 +0000

This work is based on the theme of physical contact during the pandemic. How can we counter the current situation in which physical contact is restricted, both between people and between people and objects, and the sensations of touch and smell are being substituted by visual information? Thinking of new ways to “touch” without direct ... Read more

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