About

Most of Katsumoto’s artistic practice and research involves video, sound installation, performance, and sculpture, focusing on hidden histories, cultures, minority communities, and marginalized voices in her native Japan and across East Asia. With a background in visual anthropology, she employs contemporary media and new technologies to merge anthropological research with artistic practice, blurring the boundaries between them. Incorporating methods of sensory ethnography and artistic research, she explores ways of embodying the voices of marginalized people while investigating the expressive possibilities of evoking emotions and sensations. Recently, she has also become active in performance projects in collaboration with individuals from non-artistic backgrounds, seeking to open dialogues between marginalized groups and society at large.