I am a Deaf performance artist and BSL (British Sign Language) art guide working globally with a particular interest in the visualisation of sound and music from my Deaf perspective, and using digital to share my experience of sensory perception and human encounters.
Current Project: Mark of A Woman
Mark of A Woman is a new live digital performance project by Chisato, celebrating and exploring personal histories and authentic accounts of the under-told relationships between women and tattooing cultures.
Using Visual Vernacular, digital animation, kinetic projection and Woojer™ technology, this is an exciting, accessible new exploration into women’s social, cultural and historical relationships to body marking.
The premiere performance was shown at The Place, London in November 2023.
Commissioned by The Place and BAC, supported using public funds from Arts Council England. Supported by Pavilion Dance South West, Wellcome Collection and Auckland Arts Festival. Mark of a Woman is an Unlimited UK Partner Award 2023 commission with Southbank Centre made possible thanks to funding from Arts Council England.
Ongoing project: Scored in Silence
“Scored in Silence” is Chisato’s Digital Solo Performance, an artistic documentary that unpacks the untold tales of deaf hibakusha – survivors of the A-Bombs that fell in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 – and their experiences at the time.
“Scored in Silence” was selected for the British Council Edinburgh Fringe Festival Showcase in 2019, and subsequently toured to Canada, Germany, HK and Tunisia.
It has also pivoted to a Digital Season, with online workshops and screenings taking place in Canada, Chile, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, the UK and Venezuela.
Upcoming dates
Artist Residency
25 April – 4 May 2024: Creative Exchange Lab, PICA, Portland, USA
Mark of A Woman Live Tour
Coming soon.
Scored In Silence Live Tour
28 – 30 May 2024, Festival Ausgabe, Auawirleben Theaterfestival Bern, Switzerland
BSL art tour
11:00, 18 May 2024: Saul Leiter: An Unfinished World, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
10:30, 20 April 2024: These Mad Hybrids: John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture, RWA, Bristol