Miyata Jira performance paris, 2000. 
Miyata Jira performance New York, 1997.Momoyo Torimitsu was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1967. "I was born in Japan during the period of high economic growth in a suburb of Tokyo. Most of my work had tried to reflect the effect of capitalism in our daily life."- Momoyo Torimitsu, www.momoyotorimitsu.com
Torimitsu's work Miyata Jira is a performance piece that involves Torimitsu; dressed in a nurses outfit; helping a robot dressed as a businessman, crawl along the busy streets of cities including New York and Paris.
"The work was a statement on the predicament of the post-1960s economic boom, when individual identity became subsumed into a uniform collective. The artist takes general themes highlighted by Japanese culture and comments on the difficulties experienced when a society is so over stimulated by commerce and fantasy that common values and reality are overlooked."-Installation art in the new millennium:The empire of the senses, The body of audience.
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