Screening Event | Ritual for Omega and Alpha

This screening event is part of Pubis Project 2025 Exhibition: Eros of Our Own

📌 Booking is essential due to the sensitive nature of the work.

📷 No photography or filming is allowed at this event.

🪑 *We have approx. 10 chairs on site and we will prioritise reserving seats for people who need them. Please email projectpubis@gmail.com if you have any questions. Thank you.

Ritual for Omega and Alpha

Mai Endo and Japanese striptease dancer (踊り子) Natsu Usami snuck into the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo to dance naked amongst paintings and sculptures of dancers. This performance was presented at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo in 2024, and is inspired by Edvard Munch’s Alpha and Omega series - a collection of prints housed in the museum, depicting a strange love story between a wide variety of animals and two humans. The video work is accompanied by Mai Endo’s writing that explores striptease and society from feminist perspectives, translated into English for the first time.

Mai Endo is an artist and actor whose practice explores body politics through collaborative projects. Drawing on queer feminist theory, her work incorporates notions of passivity and failure as critical strategies, realized through performance, video, and the aesthetics of manga. Recently, she presented the performance video "Ritual for Omega and Alpha" (2024), a reinterpretation of postwar Japanese striptease culture, with dancer Natsu Usami at the National Museum of Western Art.

In 2022, she was a visiting researcher at Franklin Furnace, an archival organization dedicated to non-institutional time-based art since the 1970s, during her stay in New York under the Agency for Cultural Affairs' Overseas Study Program for Emerging Artists. In 2018, she co-founded the queer feminist art zine Multiple Spirits with critic and curator Mika Maruyama.

🐍Credit💍
Performance: Natsu Usami , Mai Endo
Based on the Story by Edvard Munch "Alpha and Omega"
Concept: Mai Endo
Choreography: Natsu Usami
Filming : Takashi Fujikawa
Music: Ichiro Fujimoto

Film Department
Cinematography, Editing: Takashi Fujikawa
Camera Assistant: Aoi Nakamura, Yui Takahashi
Lighting: Katsuya Inoue
Music Composition, Mixing: Ichiro Fujimoto
Music Composition Assistant: Alan Smithee
Continuity: Mai Endo
Caring: Miyuu Kamikawa, Sae Yuda

Art Department - Costume, Rotating Stage
Concept: Mai Endo
[Costume]
Costume Design: Fumiyo Murofushi, Yuu Yamamoto
[Rotateing Stage]
Structure: Miki Murakami
Mechanic: Muku Kobayashi
Dyeing: Chihiro Murata
SewingMiki: Murakami
Lead Carpenter: Akiyoshi Sino
Art Transportation: Taro Komiya, Jun Sakurai

Production: Mai Endo

Cooperation: oar press, Kenta Kawara (VOU), The National Museum of Western Art Tokyo, TALION GALLERY

Thanks: Shun Owada, Shingo Kanagawa, Yuji Kubo, Yuka Keino, Taisuke Shimanuki, SUGAR CUBE, TAV GALLERY, Datsuijo - (a) place to be naked, Asaki Nishino, Takaaki Happoya, Aya Momose, Yamanaka Suplex, eyuum

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This screening event is part of Pubis Project 2025 Exhibition: Eros of Our Own, curated by Yujia Wang and Youjia Qian.

❤ Exhibition Times ❤

• [Opening Event] Fri 24 Oct, 18:00 - 20:00
• Sat 25 Oct, 11:00 - 18:30
• Sun 26 Oct, 11:00 - 16:00

⭐Other Eros of Our Own Events⭐

FANDOMLINGO!: A guerrilla language exchange for otaku sisters by SPILLLL

14:00 - 17:00 Saturday 25 Oct 2025, pay what you can 🎟.

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About Pubis Project

Pubis Project is a cultural initiative that uses publishing as a method of connection and empowerment for Chinese feminist and queer diasporic communities, founded and led by Youjia Qian.

Annually, Pubis Project explores diasporic experiences through a chosen theme, producing an annual issue of Pubis Magazine and organizing a series of related events, workshops and exhibitions. Through these efforts, Pubis Project actively seeks solidarity with feminist and queer communities in the UK and around the world.

Pubis Project 2025: Fan(Girls)dom

This year, working with guest curators Yujia Wang and Yutian Hu, Pubis Project is launching ‘Fan(Girls)dom’, a series of events exploring mediums of visual art, sound art, publication, workshop and panel discussion to connect ESEA queer feminist creatives across disciplines.

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