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Mieko Shiomi
Japanese, born 1938
Chieko Shiomi changed her name to Mieko for divinatory reasons between 1967 and 1969. In 1957 she began studying musicology at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Interested in avant-garde music, she founded the group Ongaku in 1960, which explored new forms and improvised performances. She then played her first compositions in public. In 1961 she participated in a concert with Toshi Ichiyanagi, the first husband of Yoko Ono, who mentioned the group to George Maciunas. He in turn included them in his tentative program for the Festival of Very Early Music, a programme that he wrote in 1962 but which was never realised; the group split up shortly after. Mieko Shiomi deepened her exploration of spatial-temporal music in relation to everyday objects. Between 1962 and 1963 she began to write exclusively textual pieces that she called action poems. In 1963 she created Endless Box, a multiple composed of 34 boxes in foldable paper of differ sizes, which she sent – on the advice of Nam June Paik – to Maciunas, thus making her entrance into the Fluxus movement. https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/mieko-shiomi/
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born Columbus, GA 1891; died Washington, D.C. 1978