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Tags for This Work

• Dance
• Social problem

• Loneliness and isolation
• Soundscape

• Performance
• Worldwideweb

Inspiration for This Work

Hikikomori is a performance involving dance, text, video, sound and voices. It is about the social phenomenon ‘Hikikomori’, which describes people who retreat completely from social life, lock themselves in their rooms for months or even years and only communicate via the internet anymore. There are about one million Hikikomori in Japan.

Student Biography

Eva Müller is a multi-media artist, born 1975 in Austria. There she first studied architecture and then InterMedia. Now she is based in Sydney and after finishing the Master of Art she will begin a research degree at COFA about sound in theatre and performance.

Eva has a strong urge to explore unknown fields and to gain new experiences. Hence she is an all-rounder and an interdisciplinary media artist. Whatever she does, she combines it with her love for sound and movement, technology and arts, theatre and design. Specializing in sound, video and performance, her artworks include theatre & dance performances, installations, photography, graphic & web design. Her aim is to create holistic experiences, which touch all senses and make us think around the corner.

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