Yurika S. Yamamoto

Yurika S. Yamamoto (b.1995, Kamakura) is a Japanese-German dance maker and performer currently based in Berlin. In her artistic work she is interested in intersectional approaches and is moving as a performance artist among visual arts, music and technology. Her work attempts to identify given her multicultural background, the stereotypes embedded in her upbringing and socio-cultural environment. Scrutinizing stigmatized figures in their codes of gestures, movements and usage of voice. Next to this as a motion-capture dancer and 3D scan model she deals with the topic of body politics in the work with virtual spaces. Reproducing and deconstructing given structures, attempting to enable the performer. In her movements she embodies sensations of hiding and revealing, being inspired and drawing strength from nature, embracing disruption, dividing space and time.