m/Other is a meditation on kinship, the maternal principle, and Otherness—not as fixed categories, but as shifting and unstable forces. Moving between the human and non-human, organic and synthetic, I reimagine the maternal as a site of intimacy and alienation, power and dissolution.

Inspired by Donna Haraway’s concept of companion species, the project asks: What does it mean to mother—not a child, but an idea, a creature, a memory, a wound? Here, the uterus becomes a conceptual matrix—a haunted space of inheritance, trauma, and transformation. The Japanese tradition of preserving the umbilical cord becomes a symbol of kinship that extends beyond bloodlines, into interspecies care and nonlinear histories.

My practice is grounded in Butoh—a form born from postwar rupture—whose physical language functions as a code for navigating grief, mutation, and metamorphosis. Through performance, video, and installation, I invoke the body as a porous vessel entangled with memory, ancestry, and technology.

In m/Other, the figure of the mother flickers—ghost, cyborg, companion, absence. My late dog, whose presence and loss remain intertwined with this work, anchors this meditation on care and grief. The “/” signals rupture and multiplicity, opening space for fragmented lineages and speculative kinships. m/Other invites us to mourn, remember, and reimagine what care might mean—across generations, species, and time.