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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Working across performance and visual art, JuJu Kusanagi creates sensory experiences in which she embodies textures, ecology, and process. She was born in Australia, grew up in Japan, received her Bachelor of Fine Art in Dance, Magna Cum Laude, from Cornish College of the Arts in the United States, studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris in France under Emmanuelle Huynh’s Dance Performance atelier, and recently graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts in Japan with Master of Fine Arts in Global Art Practice. Based in the UK and France, she currently conducts her practice-based research and process-focused creation supported by the Pola Art Foundation. Her works have won many international awards and have been presented at BAFTA qualified Aesthetica Short Film Festival (York, UK), Ann Arbor Film Festival (Michigan, USA), Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York, USA), REDCAT: Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (California, USA), JW Marriott Hotel Los Angeles Marriott L.A. Live (California, USA), Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, USA), Cineteca Nacional (Mexico City, Mexico), Centre National de la Danse (Pantin, France), Beaux-Arts de Paris (Paris, France), Broadway Cinema (Nottingham, UK), among others. Her collaborative works have been presented at Venice VR Expanded Venice International Film Festival organized by the Venice Biennale and Portland Art Museum along with others. JuJu has received Arts Council Tokyo Second term of fiscal year 2022 Creation Grant, 2022 Yasutake Scholarship Fund at Tokyo University of the Arts, and 2021 Arts Council Tokyo Startup Grant. She was selected for Tokyo Festival's Research & Lab development program Asian Performing Arts Camp 2021, Cornish Playhouse’s Artist Incubator residency 2015 and 2016, Institute of Emergent Technology and Intermedia’s iET+I residency 2015 and 2016, Velocity Dance Center’s Next Fest NW 2015, and Microsoft Corporation's product development project Through the HoloLens. She was invited as a guest artist at Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle, USA), Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, USA), Nottingham Trent University (Nottingham, UK), Festival Of Recorded Movement (Vancouver, Canada), and How Do I Look (Taipei, Taiwan) as well as other events and exhibitions, and served as a juror of 92nd Street Y Mobile Dance Film Festival 2019 (New York, USA) and curated MUNI Film Festival 2022 and 2023 (Saitama & Tokyo, Japan) with Lisa Kusanagi. She will be presenting and facilitating workshop about the practice and research regarding a set of movement and vocalization workshops she facilitated at Centre National de la Danse (Paris, France), Nottingham Trent University (Nottingham, UK), and Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo, Japan) at ELIA Biennial Conference (Milan, Italy) in November 2024. |
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