Mariko HORI





Becoming Part of the Harbour

participatory performance / 2025


Becoming a Part of the Harbour invites participants to experience the harbour in a unique, sensory way, emphasizing how their physical presence connects them to this ever-changing archive, making them part of its future history.

Floating on the surface, observing, listening, touching, and breathing in its scent, participants explore the harbour’s layered and living character through the full range of their senses.

Throughout the session, participants engage in simple, symbolic gestures to connect with the harbour’s ecosystem. One such action involves gently scrubbing the body in the water, allowing minute fragments of oneself to be released—particles that, over time, will merge with the harbour and become part of its future material history.

At the conclusion of the complete series of sessions, a caption is created in which the names of all participants are listed as elemental components of the harbour’s water.  












Project with Mediamatic, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Originated from 2021 project Under the Harbour












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