Story Room
Body and Presence in Tokyo

Story Room is a multidisciplinary project developed in Tokyo, combining photography, video projection and spatial installation. It explores how memory is carried in the body and how philosophical reflection can unfold through image, movement and shared presence.

Created in 2024 during a residency supported by Arts Council Tokyo, the project focuses on women living and working in contemporary Tokyo. It observes how autonomy, solitude and inherited expectations intersect within an accelerated urban environment.

Rather than representing postwar history, StoryRoom examines how historical memory persists as embodied practice. The body becomes an epistemic site: movement, stillness and gesture function as forms of thinking.

References to Butoh appear not as performance citation but as inquiry into temporality — slowness as counterpoint to acceleration, presence as resistance to abstraction.

As a German artist working in Tokyo, I explore resonance between two postwar societies shaped by reconstruction and restrained memory cultures. The project proposes a space in which philosophical reflection takes place through image, body and shared reading — extending discourse beyond text into lived form.

Conceived as a flexible installation environment, StoryRoom can unfold as exhibition, projection or dialogical space within academic and artistic contexts.