We are noboru, a Tokyo and Berlin-based collective, consisting of aliwen, hanna hirakawa, and Chloe Pare-Anastasiadou. We interweave our perspectives grounded in our specialized knowledges and personal experiences. Noboru takes forms through our shared fields of inquiry, including gender and media, critical materialities, and sensory ethnography. Through the publication of zines, we aim to initiate conversations around ecology, queerness, and randomness.
aliwen is a non-binary Chilean/Italian artist, curator, and writer based in Tokyo. Their main fields of interest include archives, performance, photography, politics of dissent, new ecologies, and queer/cuir experiences in East Asia and Latin America.
hanna hirakawa is an art worker, curator, and translator based in Tokyo. Their interests include language, sensory ethnography, and queer art. They create poems, photographs, and paintings.
Chloe Pare-Anastasiadou is a visual artist and researcher based in Tokyo and Berlin. Her practice takes the forms of writing, sculptural installations, and workshops, and is inspired by stellar and geological cosmologies in scientific and local mythologies.
Launches
noboru two: nirvana, Jomyoin Temple, Tokyo, Japan (21 September 2025)
noboru one: genealogies, NAMNAM Space, Tokyo, Japan (14 December 2024)
noboru zero, Dig A Hole Zines, Tokyo, Japan (14 October 2023)
Books fairs
CRIP FUTURES (/) QUEER MARKET, Eaton House, Hong Kong (2025)
TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan (2024)
TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan (2023)
Exhibitions
cosmohaptics, The 5th Floor, Tokyo, Japan (2025)
Noboru one: genealogies, NAMNAM Space, Tokyo, Japan (2024)
Art Futures Research, The University Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2023)
Resisting Oblivion, Aoyama Gakuin University, Center for Gender Studies, Tokyo, Japan (2023)
Grants
Tokyo University of the Arts “I LOVE YOU” Project Grant (2023)
In archives
Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong (2023-2025)
Printed Matter, New York (2023)
In media
ART iT, Photo Report: cosmohaptics @ The 5th Floor (March 21, 2025)
Forbes JAPAN, 「アートの出前、アートの薬 東京藝大の『研究場』が生み出すもの」(Art Delivery, Art as Medicine: What Tokyo University of the Arts’ ‘Research Lab’ Creates) (22 November 2023)
Art Future Research Lab Exhibition, noboru Cross Interview (2023)