Hiroko Tsuchimoto is a Japanese-born, Stockholm-based artist caring about and working with humans and more-than-human entities. Over the past ten years, she has been producing performances with audience participation both on stage and in public spaces, yet her interest is currently shifting from front-stage to rehearsals and behind-the-scenes, from egology to ecology, from production-oriented to research-based, and from watering houseplants to touching soil.
Her works are a series of accumulations of personal attention to and interpretations of routines and repetitions in everyday life. Frequently situating herself in in-between positions, she observes, participates, and sometimes intervenes in primarily public spheres to question social norms and power structures that sway individuals and groups. Her artistic practices facilitate a time and space to reconsider the states of (dis/re)orientation and (un)familiarity while problematizing the construction of otherness, the inherent dichotomy of Western culture, and imperial motivations in both local and transnational contexts. She usually incorporates dialogues and writings in her practices and expands upon them by working with collaborators, humans, and more-than-human entities, and imagining polyphonic viewpoints.