YoHa (Graham Harwood and Matsuko Yokokoji)
YoHa's work involves the use of art as a mode of enquiry into technical objects, most recently within the fields of health, war, oceans, and death. Their inquiry is often populated by an interconnection of technical objects and other kinds of bodies, as seen in clinics, hospitals, battlefields, or at sea.
For the last two decades, YoHa have lived and worked in and around the Thames Estuary - firstly with the Free-Media space Mediashed 2004 to 2007 at the same time restoring an old wooden boat helped by members of the Belton Way Small Craft Club. In 2014/15 “Wrecked on the Intertidal Zone” was co-produced with Arts Catalyst, exploring different approaches to thinking with the Estuary. The project involved local artists, fishermen, divers, and boat builders, as well as the US-based Critical Art Ensemble and Fran Gallardo (Spain), who later formed FRAUD with Audrey Samson. Wrecked became a precursor to the first Estuary Festival in 2016.
YoHa went on to produce “Wasted Bird Hyde” for Estuary 2021 and “Wasted Museum” for the Exchange, Erith in 2022. This year, they are producing “Sleeping with the Dead” for Estuary 2025
