Aruna | uk

Haruna Ito is a sonic and verbal poet who utilizes noise, both aural and literary, in the creation of evocative and unsettling landscapes. Born in industrial Kawasaki, Japan, haruna moved to the United States at the age of three and lived there until age thirteen, where she absorbed the popular culture of the time, showing a particular interest in music from a very young age. With her experiences of living as a child of foreigners in America with its various prejudices, and again upon returning to Japan, as a social aberration who neither spoke nor read her native language, themes...