Projects

Teiji Ito (1935–1982) was a Japanese-American composer best known for his collaborations with filmmaker Maya Deren. Michiko Ogawa's ongoing research into his work began during her doctoral studies at UC San Diego and continues through performance, writing, and curatorial projects.

The Harmonic Space Orchestra is a Berlin-based experimental research and performance collective with rational intonation at the core of its practice. Michiko Ogawa has been a member since the group's founding in 2019, performing and contributing to its ongoing development as an ensemble and research body.

Ogawa/Lima is a duo formed by Michiko Ogawa and Manuel Pessoa de Lima that explores the intersections between everyday life and artistic practice. Informed by the work of Allan Kaprow — whose practice blurred the borders between art and life — their ongoing project Theories of the Everyday revisits Kaprow's scores, particularly his Time Pieces.

The work centers on systematic recordings of quotidian activities and the manufacturing of a card game containing instructions to be enacted live. For Kaprow, the idea of play replaces conventional art. The card game creates an "un-artistic" situation: performers simply play, enabling chance operations through commands that move between live recordings, video fragments, light-change dispositions, and lecture excerpts about Kaprow's practice.