木漏れ日
Komorebi
Komorebi Hoi An 2025
Team Biographies
Masami Mikami
Original Concept and Artistic Director
Masami is the project lead and concept originator of Komorebi. She has received the Canada Council for the Arts’ Explore and Create grant as well as the Québec Arts Council’s Vivacité grant.
An artist at heart since childhood, she has always drawn inspiration from traditional Japanese values while pursuing new forms of expression and technology to enrich universal storytelling.
In Montreal, she began her journey to create a new narrative art form capable of deeply connecting people across cultures. Her extensive travels, along with her studies in Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa and Global Affairs at New York University, broadened her perspective and sparked a passion for telling human stories through the arts.
Komorebi in Hoi An is her first multidisciplinary art public presentation. Its setting in a lush garden is especially fitting, reflecting the project’s central theme and values of reconnection with nature and people, and inviting reflection on how we live with technology today.
Her vision is to bring Komorebi to international audiences, based on Canadian values of peace and empathy across differences, in harmony with traditional Japanese ones.
Linh Trinh
Choreographer and Dancer
Linh Trinh is a visual artist and dancer. Her works explore the interconnection between community, nature and wellbeing through interactive land art and performance. Linh co-found Collective Sonson, a design collective focused on sustainability and modern handicrafts. As a contact improvisation dancer and facilitator, Linh has hosted several movement retreats in Vietnam since 2020.
Mimi Allard
Sound and Visual Design
Mimi is a sound artist working at the intersection of experimental electronic music and audio art. Fascinated by sculpting and shaping sound material, she composes using voice, various synthesis techniques, sound objects, and neural networks. Her practice explores a continuous space between memory and imagination, combining binary and non-binary systems to investigate presence, interaction, and sensory storytelling. Emphasizing the malleability of sound and timbral variation as gateways to sensory experience, Mimi enhances her interactions between performer and electronic system with minimalist lighting and visuals. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Composition and Sound Creation at the Université de Montréal. Her work has been presented at festivals, exhibitions, and in film.
Tomo Usuda
Facilitator
Based at U Cafe Hoi An in Vietnam, Tomo facilitates international cultural and educational projects. He has supported arts and media initiatives across Asia and Europe, including Japan Philharmonic Orchestra tours in Vietnam and productions for TV Tokyo and CBBC/Tiger Aspect. A Rotary Foundation Global Scholar in Peace and Conflict Prevention, Tomo has a background in education, art history research, photojournalism, and international relations.
AC Potvin
Digital Strategy and Operations
AC is a digital consultant. He holds a Master’s degree in Communication Sciences focused on artistic representations of virtual reality (VR). It examined how artists engage with emerging technologies and innovation networks to create new forms of expression.
