MIYA MASAOKA

Presented as the 8th collaboration between SAVVY Contemporary and MaerzMusik Festival, REFUGE IN THE VEGETAL WORLD is a solo exhibition and activation series featuring composer, sound artist, musician Miya Masaoka. The project takes cues from the seminal work Through Vegetal Being. Two Philosophical Perspectives, co-authored by Luce Irigaray, and highlights Miya Masaoka’s lifelong body of work, dissecting the significance of vegetal lives, and exploring the myriad possibilities of collaboration between humans and more-than-human entities. Be it an installation, live performance or composition, the context in which each work exists and is presented is central to the artist’s exploration. Thinking beyond the anthropocentric viewpoint that rigidly distinguishes between humans and the so called “non”-humans, the works presented in this exhibition are continual endeavors to re-contextualize the perceived passivity and objectification of plants, animals and instruments as well.