xenolith, 2023
Part of Art Path Senju
laser-cut sherurukku N tsuinsunō 90 g/m2
dimensions variable

A xenolith is a piece of rock contained in another type of rock, often embedded in magma while it was cooling as lava during a volcanic eruption. Xenoliths keep their unique geological qualities or metamorphose into the type of rock that contains them. The installation invited people to weave themselves as a rock that is enfolded in a geological pattern.

Facilitating Team: Harah Han, Asako Jindo, Mimi Terayama, Sae Tomiyama, Asako Jindo

Photos by Ryohei Tomita.


I am a visual artist and researcher inspired by ecosmological narratives in scientific and local mythologies. My work is grounded in astronomy, geology, and critical theory, and I make sculptural installations, art books, and workshops. 

Recently I have been reading about cultural celestial practices in Japan, writing on sensory walking, and working at the art therapy department of an elderly home in Tokyo.

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Digital Presentation at the 11th IAKE International Scientific Conference: Creative Communities—Participation and initiative in institutional collectives: Society, Education, Political Consultation, Heraklion, Crete

PhD Public Presentation, Agential Materialities within Post-Contemporary Art Workshops: Facilitating Selfhood, Otherness, Critical Theory, and Storytelling, Tokyo University of the Arts [14 February 2025]

Photo Report of cosmohapticsー宇宙の手触り at ART iT Asia [21 March 2025]

cosmohapticsー宇宙の手触り at The 5th Floor [14 February-23 March 2025]

Launch of noboru one: genealogies, NAMNAM Space, Tokyo [14–21 December 2024]

Exhibiting at the 15th Bienal de la Habana–Shared Horizons, Cuba [15 November 2024-28 February 2025]

Dans le sillage d’Aphrodite at the Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece [29 October-11 November 2024]

Artist Residency with voyons voir+ in Marseille, France [20 September-21 October 2024]

Participation at the ‘Sonic Dialogues: Intersections of Art and Sound in Public Spaces’ Spring School at mdw–University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna [12-14 June 2025]

Paper Presentation: Youth Futurisms Through Paperscapes in the Fantastic Fields Art Workshop at The 17th Annual Conference of the Japan Association for Cultural Policy Research, Aoyama Gakuin University [17 March 2024]

Research Presentation at Monash x TUA, Tokyo University of the Arts [19 January 2024]

のぼる [noboru] released at Printed Matter [10 December 2023]

Participation at the Tokyo Art Book Fair, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo [23-26 November 2023]

Documentation Online Release: PARK-PLATZ パークプラツ, Goethe-Institut Korea [30 November 2023]

Participation in Art Futures Research, The University Art Museum [11-26 November 2023]

『のぼる』[noboru]  Zine Launch at Dig A Hole Zines [14 October 2023]

what are you for a creature at NAMNAM Space, Tokyo [14-15 October 2023]

Paper Presentation at The 4th Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture: Un-learning with Matter: Observing Orientations, Frictions and Entanglements in “Silver Streaming Systems 銀河系” [10-13 October 2023]

Intervention Artist at PARK-PLATZ, URBAN WALKS Goethe-Institut East Asia [23 September 2023, 11:00-18:00]

Paper Presentation: Interfering Diffractively with Matter: Anamneses of the “Metagrid” Art Workshop at The 4th Barcelona Conference on Arts, Media & Culture [19-23 September 2023]

Emerging Scholar Award at the Eighteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University [19-21 July 2023]

Exhibiting at ROBERTO CUOGHI, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany [3 December 2022-29 May 2023]

metttafestival, Goethe-Institut Tokyo in partnership with Tokyo College, Japan [1-2 October 2022]

 Exhibition with Performance Lab: Crystal Clear at Nakacho-no-Ie, Tokyo, Japan [27-28 August 2022]

Art & New Ecology at The University Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan [28 May-26 June 2022]

Project Online Launch: Planetary Systems, Eyes of Light, Greece [21 May 2022]

Stage Artwork for “The Man, my Dad” by Yoshiya Yoshimitsu, Graduation Works Exhibitions 2022, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum [29 January-1 February 2022]

Open Call for Planetary Systems: Workshop for Women with Cancer Experience, Eyes of Light, Greece [10 December 2021]

Obaachan no kami, Exhibition at Studio GROSS, Tokyo, Japan [28 August-1 September2021]

Gravestone at the Cincinnati Art Book Fair, Ohio, USA [21-22 August 2021]

ø mars, Online Exhibition by Bauhaus University Weimar and Tokyo University of the Arts [15 July 2021]

東京藝術大学佐藤時啓研究室展「Re」, Group Exhibition at ChangTing Gallery, Tokyo, Japan [19-30 March 2021]

New normal, Abnormal, 変わらないもの, Group Exhibition at VIVA, Tokyo, Japan [11-23 December 2020]

Squaring the circle at the ATOPOS cvc e-shop [22 May 2020]

Workshop DRESS 2020 at ATOPOS cvc, Athens, Greece [23 January 2020]

Occupy Atopos #Residency Studio #Chloé Paré [October 2019-March 2020]