Seiji Shimoda is performance artist, poet and director
of NIPAF (Nippon International Performance Art Festival).
Born in 1951 in Nagano, Japan, he started to write poetry
in highschool and then discovered performance art. Shimoda
explores the boundaries of writing with his action poetry.
Using his large network of international performance artists,
Shimoda organises Nippon International Performance Art Festival
since 1993.
