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Exhibition

An Incidental Story: Mieko Shiomi and Fluxus

Sculpture Galleries

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

Free Entry

About the exhibition

The first ever solo retrospective of the influential experimental composer and artist Mieko Shiomi (b. 1938).

Spanning her early musical experiments to the present, the exhibition explores how Shiomi expanded music into objects, actions and words, tracing her role as a co-founder of Tokyo’s pioneering improvisational music group Group Ongaku (Group Music) and her participation in the international Fluxus network.

Rarely presented artworks and archival material will be shown alongside works adapted or created especially for the exhibition, including a new version of her collaborative Spatial Poem no. 1: Word Event. The exhibition will include interactive elements, films and performances of Shiomi’s written instruction scores, inviting visitors to take part in her continuing spirit of experimentation.

An Incidental Story: Mieko Shiomi and Fluxus is guest-curated by Dr Sally Kawamura, Daphne Jackson Fellow at University of York and developed in partnership with Fondazione Bonotto, Molvena, Italy. A programme of events will accompany the exhibition.

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