Sara Kawai Harp Live Performance
Ibuki Kuramochi m/Other Closing

7-8:30pm Thursday August 7, 2025
The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles
(5700 Wilshire Blvd., Ste 100, Los Angeles CA 90036)

Admission FREE
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The LA-based harpist and producer, Sara Kawai is appearing as a special guest performer to celebrate the closing of Ibuki Kuramochi's solo exhibition m/Other.

m/Other is a meditation on kinship, the maternal principle, and Otherness—not as fixed categories, but as shifting, unstable forces. Moving between the human and non-human, organic and synthetic, Ibuki Kuramochi reimagines the maternal as a site of both intimacy and alienation, power and dissolution. 

© Sara Kawai

SARA KAWAI is an LA-based harpist and producer blending classical training with hip-hop, R&B, pop, and electronic music. With 17 years of harp performance and 7 years in production, she’s worked live and in-studio with artists like Miley Cyrus, Roddy Ricch, Laufey, SZA, and Kehlani. Her credits include Miley Cyrus’s “More to Lose,” Ravyn Lenae & Ty Dolla $ign’s “Dream Girl,” and Laufey’s “Dear Soulmate,” Destin Conrad & Kiana Lede’s “Unpredictable,” Zacari & Isaiah Rashad’s “Bliss,” Ambre & Mack Keane’s “ELEVATE,” Yuna’s “Relax Your Mind,” UMI’s “Broken Bottle Reimagined,” Laufey’s “Dear Soulmate,” ASTN’s EP “Where Do We Go From Here,” and more. As an artist, she recently released the ambient project "MORI" with Solomon Fox. Sara also collaborates with brands, DJs, and hosts meditation events, building community through music in LA.

© Ibuki Kuramochi

IBUKI KURAMOCHI is a Japanese-born interdisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, Sydney, Taipei, and Rome.

Since 2016, she has studied Butoh under Yoshito Ohno at the world-renowned Kazuo Ohno Butoh Dance Studio. Kuramochi translates the poetic choreographic physicality of Butoh and the human body into performance, video, installation, and painting, exploring metamorphosis and post-human feminism.

She is a recipient of the 2025 AHL Foundation AAPI Woman Artist Fellowship, 2024 DCA EMPOWERMENT grant, 2024 DCA Dance in the City grant, and the 2022 SCIART Ambassador Fellowship.

In 2019, she was featured in LA WEEKLY’s People 2019 issue, highlighting influential creatives in Los Angeles. In 2025, she was named one of the Ten Essential Local Artists in LA by Los Angeles Magazine.
 

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