Midori Matsui, a Tokyo-based art critic, has extensively published on contemporary Japanese art in many books and exhibition catalogues including Super Rat: Chim↑Pom(Tokyo, Parco. Co. Ltd, 2012); Ice Cream (London: Phaidon, 2007), Little Boy: the Art of Japan’s Exploding Subculture (Japan Society and Yale University Press, 2005). Her books include: Art in the New World (Tokyo: Asahi Press, 2002); The Door into Summer: The Age of Micropop(, for Art Center Mito, Japan, and Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art in 2009.

Writer, born in 1987. Editor at an online magazine. Attends supposedly hip gigs and other music events to avoid getting stuck in the past, but is never overly enthusiastic about such outings.

Photographer and critic, born in 1960. Professor at Tama Art University, Department of Information Design, and member of the Institute for Art Anthropology. A specialist in visual anthropology, his activities connect various types of media, including photography, text, and video installation. Has worked with, published on and curated themes such as memory, movement, and the masses, and directed international exhibitions in both Japan and elsewhere. Served as the commissioner of the Japanese pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2007 and as Artistic Director of the Aichi Triennale2016.

Researcher in the field of dance. Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies (Culture and Representation). Ph.D. (Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies). She is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Body Expression and Cinematic Arts, College of Contemporary Psychology, Rikkyo University (fixed term) and a research fellow at The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University. Her research focuses on Butoh and contemporary dance, with a particular focus on Kazuo Ohno. She is the co-author of The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance (2019). In addition to her research activities, she has contributed to theatre reviews such as Theatre Arts, Dance Work, artissue as well as other publications. She has also worked as a dramaturg and performer in theatre company SYAKE-SPEARE and other productions.

Sayako Mizuta works as a freelance-based curator, project manager and a coordinator for contemporary art exhibitions, festivals. Curated exhibitions: Alterspace -Constantly Changing Temporary Artspace (Asahi Art Square, 2014), Skin & Map: the study of body and sense by four artists (Aichi art center, 2010). She has run Little Barrel project room in Omori, Tokyo. http://littlebarrel.net/

Born in 1980, Yuko Mohri is an artist who eschews a composition-based approach, creating mainly installations and sculptures focused on phenomena that change in response to the surrounding environment and other conditions. In addition to recent solo exhibitions including “Parade (a Drip, a Drop, the End of the Tale)” (Japan House São Paulo, 2021), “SP. by yuko mohri” (Ginza Sony Park, Tokyo, 2020), and “Voluta” (Camden Art Centre, London, 2018), her work has appeared at the 34th São Paulo Biennial, Glasgow International 2021, the 2018 Asia Pacific Triennial (in Brisbane), the 2017 Lyon Biennale, and several other exhibitions around the world. Mohri undertook a residency in the United States as an Asian Cultural Council grantee in 2015, and is set to travel to France in 2022 as laureate of the Institut français Cité internationale des arts 2020. https://www.mohrizm.net/