Mew Imashuku

Born in 2000, based in Tokyo.
He works to redefine intimacy and violence in the field of poetry and contemporary art. Construct devices and situations that shake the boundaries between self and others using media that work on skin sensation in a broad sense (heat, compression, vibration, stuttering, etc.). Through practices involving oneself and others, it presents an intimate relationship between two people or a new way of coexistence in public spaces.

The main presentation history includes public experiments (Kitasenju BuoY, 2026) of the device “Pressure-Pleasure,” where multiple people enter compression bags and experience compression in response to each other's breathing, and the group exhibition “30th Anniversary Exhibition Everyday Choreo” (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2025). The main awards were the 1st Nishiwaki Junzaburo Award Rookie of the Year Award and the 59th Bookbinding Competition Tokyo Governor's Award.

publishing

2025 “Kumonotaira Plateau” (due to investment by Kumonohira Sanso LLC)

2023 “Practice for Returning” Shichigatsudo

Exhibitions/Performances/Workshops

2025

Exhibition “Polyphony of Thermal Touch Therapy” Junbichu clinic

Exhibition “Yamanashi Media Arts Awards 2024-2025 Selected Works Exhibition” ARTSPACE Dream

Interactive performance “Pressure-Pleasure” Tokyu Plaza 6th floor (at group exhibition Synchronicity)

Workshop “Writing Practices for Queers” Bazaar Cafe (with Writing Practice Planning)

2024 Exhibition “Traces of Thermal Touch Therapy” FabCafe Kyoto

Interactive performance “Thermal Touch Therapy @KEX” FabCafe Kyoto

Workshop “Exposure” Yurakucho YAU (planned by Tabula Press)

Interactive Performance “Thermal Touch Therapy” Jimbocho PARA

Interactive performance “I Won't Wake You Up” Kagurazaka Session House (as 1 program for the performance “Onirisme Collectif”)

Performance “Can I see the bottom of my 5th foot with my eyes lying on the other side of my second foot?” 6okken (at Diroccan)

2023 Workshop “Love and Sex Workshop” ATAMI ART VILLAGE (at 6okken at Atami Art Grant 2023)

The exhibition “Live! Inca Poetri @有楽町” Yurakucho Denki Building

The magazine “Easy to See Through” Literature Flea Market Tokyo (since then, it has been published regularly until now)

Research Presentations/Lectures/Papers

2025 paper “My Left Hand Dying -- Loss of Invariants Identifying Others in 'Thermal Touch Therapy' Brings Loss of Sense of Ownership/Subjectivity” Civilization Institute

Invited Lecture “Jumping into the Vortex of Poetry Writing and Acting in That Vortex” Japan Cognitive Science Society “Interval” Japan Cognitive Science Society “Interval” Research Subcommittee

2024 Research Presentation “My Dying Left Hand” Artificial Intelligence Society Subcommittee Body Intelligence Study Group (2nd Author: Yoshida Kaima) (Received the Furukawa Memorial Award for this presentation)

2023 Research Presentation “Relive the Physical Experience of Gozo Yoshimasu -Discovering Diverse Meanings from the Sounds and Shapes of Words through Copying Sutras in Windows-” Japan Cognitive Science Society “Interval” Research Subcommittee

2022 Research Presentation “Reading Yoshimasu Gozo by Hand” Keio University

Residencies/Grants

2024 Kyoto Literature Residency #3

Tokyo Art Festival Farm Lab 2024 Assistant Writer

Kumonodaira Sanso Artist in Residence 2024

Diroccan

Arts Council Tokyo Startup Grant Phase 1

2023 6okken at atami art grant 2023

Kawashima Mirai Culture and Arts Foundation Art Activity Grant Program

2022 Mori Taikichiro Memorial Research Promotion Fund

2021 SFC Eccentric Research Incentive Program

awarded

2025 Body Intelligence Study Group Furukawa Memorial Award

Yamanashi Media Arts Awards 2024-2025 Selected

2023 1st Nishiwaki Junzaburo Award Rookie of the Year

Body Intelligence Study Group Furukawa Memorial Award

Contribution history

2025 “Making a Frosted Glass Box Here in Japan” “Contemporary Poetry Note 2025/3 Issue” Special Feature “Through Frontline Literature Residency for Foreign Poetry”

“Windows, Posca's Lines, and Voices: Handreading Yoshimasu Gozo” “Sanda Literature 2025 Winter Issue” Special Feature “Yoshimasu Gozo”

2024 “Nomu” “Eureka 2024/12 Issue”

“Moving Water” “Modern Poetry Notebook 2024/11” Special Feature “Emerging Poets 2024”

“Saika Tahi Function” “Modern Poetry Notebook 2024/8 Issue”

2023 “Sand Castle” and others “An Anthology for Walking with a Certain Day Poems”