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Offering : AFTER NATURE (2026)
This 15-minute performance reflects on the idea of land art—not as an object, but as a presence.
As part of AFTER NATURE exhibition, commisioned by Proposition Studio, London.
鎮守 Chinju (2024)
Performance commissioned by SLQS Gallery for the opening of their inaugural exhibition ‘A Landscape of Chance’.
Chinju means "guardianship" and refers to a protective deity in Shinto, Japan's indigenous faith, that holds that spiritual power exists in everyday life.
Masumi performed this ritual through my movement to celebrate the spirits around us as new communities evolve and shift around this new space.
“KOMA” Asia Triennial Manchester (2018)
Masumi was commissioned by Asia Triennial Manchester to make a piece for opening night at HOME Manchester. She has created original work KOMA which reflect the theme for the festival, ‘who do you think you are?’. She explored the subject through a participatory performance, where the audience is triggered to reflect on notions of physicality and identity. KOMA presents subversive elements that allow Masumi to alter the audience’s role in this experience.
Movement Diary Performance (2017)
In 2017 Masumi and Guy Wigmore took a completely different approach to the Movement Diary Project, which began in Nakanojo in 2015—looking back over my improvised movements and moments, taking elements and turning them into a choreographed performance.
うつろいまどう / Utsuroi Madou – In Praise of Shadows (2016)
“うつろいまどう” (Utsuroi Madou – In Praise of Shadows) is a performance commissioned by Nakanojo Biennale for their exhibition 山に笑ふ。(Yama ni Warau) at an old sake brewery, now an art space, in Nakanojo. It’s a 40 minute site-specific theatre performance directed and choreographed by Masumi Saito.
Sumau 棲まう ( 2015 )
Masumi was commissioned to make a performance piece for the 5th Nakanojo Biennale in Gunma, Japan. The venue she was given to perform in was a historical Japanese silk-raising farm house located in a deep mountain valley. She created “Sumau” (meaning inhabit in Japanese) a piece which presents the lives and memories lived and passed on in this house for decades.
