Yuko Mohri

Wednesday 19 October (2016)
Writer Agnieszka Gratza talked with residency artist Yuko Mohri about her work which looks at ideas of flux, instability and intangible energies.

Agnieszka Gratza is a writer based in London. Her writings about art, performance and film have appeared in frieze, ArtReview, Artforum, Flash Art, Metropolis M, PAJ, Sight & Sound, The Guardian and The Observer. She has published articles on the subject of Renaissance intellectual and cultural history and her written work often stems from live art and performance.

Friday 6 July, (2016)
White Rainbow, London W1W 8HJ

Camden Art Centre and White Rainbow presented a talk between the independent curator Jason Waite and Yuko Mohri. Mohri and Waite discussed their work and reflect on the social imaginaries of contemporary Japan, with particular reference to artists’ practices following the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in 2011.

Jason Waite is an independent curator and cultural worker focused on forms of practice producing agency. Recent projects have centred on working in sites of crisis amidst the detritus of capitalism, looking for tools and radical imaginaries for different ways of living and working together. He has co-curated Don’t Follow the Wind an ongoing project inside the uninhabited Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan; The Real Thing?; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Maintenance Required, The Kitchen, New York, and White Paper: The Law by Adelita Husni-Bey at Casco, Utrecht. He holds an M.A. in Art and Politics from Goldsmiths College, London and was a Helen Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow, at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York 2012-13.

White Rainbow is a non-profit organisation based in central London which champions the work of emerging and mid-career contemporary Japanese artists, spotlighting artistic practices underrepresented in the UK. The gallery supports work in a range of media, with particular focus on performance, film and installation-based practices.