Komachi Project pop up performances
November 18 @ 1:00 pm – November 21 @ 3:00 pm
We Are Komachi is an interdisciplinary collaboration, bringing together five female artists working across literature, dance, music, and visual art. In the exhibition space at ATM6, these artists from diverse disciplines come together to create shared experiences in active dialogue with the audience.
We Are Komachi will perform in and around their exhibition space in the Holden Gallery.
Komachi Performance Schedule
| Date | Time | Details |
| 18 Nov (Tues) | 13:00 | Pop up Komachi Guerrilla Performance |
| 19 Nov (Wed) | 16:00 | Performance by Yuko Kaseki, Kanoko Nishi, Sae Esashi and Tomoko Mori |
| 20 Nov (Thu) | 16:00 | Performance by Ito Hiromi, Jeffrey Angles, Yuko Kaseki, Kanoko Nishi, Sae Esashi and Tomoko Mori |
| 20 Nov (Thu) | 17:00 | Talk by We Are Komachi (all the members) and Miya Yoshida in the SODA Cinema. |
Making Red Beet Prints with Tomoko Mori
| Date | Time |
| 18 Nov (Tues) | 14:00 – 15:30 |
| 19 Nov (Wed) | 14:00 – 15:30 |
| 20 Nov (Thu) | 14:00 – 15:30 |
| 21 Nov (Fri) | 13:30-15:00 |
Berlin-based Japanese artist Tomoko Mori will continue developing her work, a part of We Are Komachi in an open, participatory process. Visitors are warmly invited to join her as collaborators in (de)coloring sheets of Japanese paper, contributing collectively to the ongoing evolution of her installation.
For We Are Komachi, presented at ATM6, Mori has created a large-scale spatial installation composed of Japanese paper dyed with red beet juice and bleached with wet cotton ropes, suspended within the Grosvenor Gallery. Each pink-tinted sheet bears a unique pattern — the result of careful, individual coloring by the artist and participants in her Berlin workshops.
In these workshops, Mori collaborated with women from her neighborhood in Berlin’s Wedding district — an area rich in cultural diversity and home to many with migrant backgrounds. In particular, she worked with members of “Stadtteilmütter” (Mothers of the District), a community project where women with migration backgrounds act as mediators and provide integration support for parents and families.
During the collective (de)coloring process, participants shared personal memories of their homelands, family stories, and reflections on global instability through various geopolitical conflicts. Through these intimate exchanges, the act of artistic creation became both a space for dialogue and a gesture of solidarity.
Image credit: Die Rote Hütte (Exhibition in Work in Progress for We Are Komachi Project), Performance by Yuko Kaseki, Visual installation by Tomoko Mori and Sae Esashi, Sternschuppen, Pavilion of the Volksbühne, Berlin, 2025. Photo by Rina Nakano