MIMAI PROJECTS
MIMAI Projects brings together the individual and joint practices of Silvia Y. Tam and Shingo Shimada, alongside collaborations with artists, researchers and cultural institutions.
Developed across transnational contexts, the projects take the form of artistic research, exhibitions, moving image, publications and archives. They explore spaces of the in-between—between cultures, histories, memories and forms of knowledge—creating an ongoing dialogue between artistic practice and scholarly inquiry.
ONGOING RESEARCH · DIGITAL ARCHIVE
Lines of Passage
An evolving digital archive tracing intersecting family histories across China, Japan and Europe.
Developed by Silvia Y. Tam and Shingo Shimada, Lines of Passage approaches family archives as sites of microhistory, migration, memory and cultural translation.
EXHIBITION · 2024 · SHANGHAI
Shanghai 1920–1945:
Pipe, Turpentine and Fugue
Goethe Open Space · Shanghai
23–26 October 2024
A solo exhibition by Silvia Y. Tam, accompanied by a lecture by sociologist Prof. Shingo Shimada and an artist talk with Lico Fang, Silvia Y. Tam and Prof. Shimada.
Presented within Goethe Open Space 2024 by the Cultural and Education Section of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Shanghai.
FILM · 2026 · TEXAS
Under Her Name
Documentary Film · Texas, USA · 2026
A project by Asian American Art & Culture Initiative (AAACI)
Director · June Xu
Co-Director · Lok Yiu
Creative collaboration & cinematography · Silvia Y. Tam
Premiere · December 2026 · Austin, Texas
Distribution via Austin PBS · 2026
