MiSHŌ Residency 08
(November 5-December 9, 2026)
クリスティ・チュア
ライター・アーティスト／シンガポール
A writer and creative from Singapore whose practice extends across food and publishing. She is the founder and editorial director of The Slow Press, an independent food magazine established in 2021. Through interviews, reflection, and cooking, her work explores our everyday food culture – how relationships with land and produce shape our personal identities.
More recently, Christy has co-written and self-published Talk Cock Sing Song (2024) and Assistant To The Assistant Chef (2025) under The Slow Press, alongside contributions to the magazine’s annual volumes. As a self-taught home cook, she has also hosted food-centric events in Singapore, Saigon, and Sydney, as a meaningful extension of her practice.
Proposal
At MiSHŌ, Christy hopes to better understanding the local produce and food culture of Fujino. Coming from a densely populated, perennially tropical city with little produce to call its own, she seeks to settle into the seasons and reflect upon how that translates into the meals prepared for the dinner table.
Her research and kitchen tests will culminate in a lunch event, where she intends to prepare a meal with local ingredients for guests. Alongside, she will be working on a publication that will continue post-residency, together with her research into Singaporean food.
レイナ・ブリジット・タケウチ
ダンスアーティスト・ライター・エデュケーター・キュレーター
日本・オーストラリア
Japanese-Australian dance artist, educator, writer and curator whose work centers on cross-cultural exchange and diasporic experiences. Raised across Japan, India, Thailand, and Australia, her "third culture kid" identity informs her movement practice—a blend of contemporary dance, puppetry, Japanese somatic training and street dance forms. Rooted in concepts like 間 (ma, the in-between), she utilizes collaborative pedagogy, time-sharing, and movement to transmute learning and uplift diverse communities. Takeuchi holds a Doctor of Philosophy focused on the collection and maintenance of Asian-Australian performance practices.
Proposal
At MISHŌ Reina will focus on linguistic slippages and archival repair, working with her Bachan’s archival calligraphy and the ephemera shared across generations of her family. She will reconstruct her grandmother’s discarded calligraphy sheets through performance, puppetry and origami, filming and photographing her explorations against the backdrop of Fujino’s landscape.
Alongside this research, Reina is planning to lead community-based, family-friendly workshops focused on paper construction and shared storytelling through simple paper forms and movement. Bringing together local families and community members, the workshops will explore the intimate relationships between paper, movement, language and play.
The aim is for participants to make objects through simple, upcycled means, with a renewed sense of the simple joys of paper play.
ヨリタ・ヴェイトクテ
アーティスト/リトアニア
Jolita Vaitkutė is a Lithuanian interdisciplinary artist based in Vilnius, working in installation, sculpture, and experimental visual art. Her practice explores relationships between the human body, nature, consumption, and transformation.
Using unconventional, often ephemeral materials like food, plants, soil, and discarded objects, she creates tactile artworks that challenge our perception of the familiar. Her practice embraces impermanence, allowing materials to decay, transform, or return to their original state.
Proposal
During her residency at MISHO, Jolita will develop BELLY PERSON: Japan Edition, an artistic research project exploring the reciprocal relationship between the human body and cultivated nature.
Through encounters with local farmers and communities, she will investigate how humans select, cultivate, preserve, and transform plants and how nature, in turn, shapes our bodies and identities local organic materials, experimental techniques, and photographic documentation, her research will examine processes of selection, adaptation, decay, and transformation.
Building on her recent exhibition in Seoul, the project approaches the belly as a system of intuition, selection, and memory that continuously negotiates what to accept, reject, preserve, and let go.
The residency will also offer an opportunity to observe how unfamiliar environments affect perception, intuition, and the creative process.
The residency was realized with the support of the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
出身の映画監督・ビジュアルアーティスト/リトアニア
Gediminas Šiaulys is an award-winning Lithuanian film director and visual artist. The first Lithuanian to win NYC's ADC Young Guns Award (2009), he is the only creator to earn all three top Lithuanian creative honors of Golden Stage Cross, Silver Crane and Golden Arrow across categories of theater, film, and advertising.
His work blends surrealism with subtle humor to explore themes of human identity and existential fragility. His films are characterized by a distinctive visual language that combines illustration, three-dimensional objects, and experimental animation techniques, where form becomes an integral part of storytelling.
Proposal
During the MiSHŌ residency, Gediminas plans to develop The Breathing of Things, a site-responsive video and sound installation exploring the relationship between nature, cultural memory, and the invisible presence of place. He aims to investigate how moving images interact with natural textures, movement, light, and decay. The project draws conceptual inspiration from Japanese Shinto beliefs surrounding kami and Baltic pre-Christian traditions of sacred nature, exploring their shared perception of the natural world as a living presence. Through environmental observation, conversations with the local community, and collaboration with a Japanese sound artist or composer, he hopes to create an immersive audiovisual experience shaped by Fujino’s landscape, sounds, and cultural context. The residency will culminate in an experimental installation prototype presented during Open Studios.
The residency was realized with the support of the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
MiSHŌ Visiting Artist (2026 June-
アーティスト・ダンサーJP
Born in Tokyo, based in Hachioji,
Madoka Tasaka works across bodily expression, video, photography, and writing.
Alongside her artistic practice, she also runs a mineral shop.
Since 2019, she has studied dance, Eurythmy, and Butoh under Kenta Kuge. She is also a member of the Koto Shinbukai Aikido dojo.
Through the intersection of movement and language emerging from dance practices, as well as the embodied awareness and breath cultivated through martial arts, she explores multilayered dimensions of the body that exist beyond the visible and invisible.
“Listening to Boundaries”
During this residency, Madoka Tasaka will explore the changes that arise within the body through encounters with the land of Fujino: its people, landscapes, and histories.
Moving beyond the visible aspects through which we usually perceive everyday life, Tasaka is interested in sensing the unspoken atmospheres, memories, and relationships that exist beneath the surface. What can the body perceive when one listens not only to what appears in form, but also to what is happening beyond it?
Drawing on dance practices and the sense of "musubi" (connection) found in Aikido, Tasaka will examine transformations that emerge across various boundaries: between people, body and land, inside and outside.
Throughout the residency, Tasaka will document the process through video and writing, and create works in dance, video, and text based on the sensations and questions that arise.