Mitsuko Noguchi is a performance-based intermedia artist exploring (dis)embodiment in immersive technologies and the reverberations of trauma in the spiritual body. Their foundation as an international stunt coach now fuses with XR, video, biosensors, improvisation, and butoh dance-theatre. Best known for their backwards-wig video series Suko/Suko, Mitsuko’s digital performance artworks have been screened at Lift-Off Global Network Film Festival, Fluxus Experimental Film Festival, Geary Art Crawl, and more. Mitsuko is a graduate of the Visual Studies: Studio Stream undergraduate program at the University of Toronto. They have also appeared internationally as an actor, most notably as the lead role in the virtual reality experience Interstellar Arc by Emmy Award Winning Felix and Paul Studios and AREA15 Las Vegas.

1. Scrape out everything under your skin 

2. Locate the sidewalk square you’ve stepped on most in your life 

3. Smear the scrapings onto the sidewalk square

4. Let horror crack the slab

5. Slip into subconscious earth

6. Endure your own decomposition

7. Recompose as many little secret flowers in the concrete rifts