Current artist-in-residence Marina Lisa Komiya will be in conversation with Dot Zhihan Jia, Curator (Studios & Residencies) to discuss Komiya’s activist work in Japan, practising and embodying queer theories, and their ongoing research into Japanese Knotweed and gendered beer brewing.
The event will begin with a screening of Reproducing Garden (2023), a film made by Komiya and their collaborator Chihiro Suzuki. Using the concept of a regulated house, the film compares residential land on which development is impermissible due to current Japanese building codes, to law restricting same-sex marriage.
This event is part of the public programme for Komiya’s ongoing research project Reproductive Garden, which interrogates the archetypes of English and Japanese gardens and how they can act as societal models through which different people can coexist.
Film running time: 59 minutes
Japanese with English subtitles
Booking essential. Suggested donation £5.
