BURTON NITTA

Burton Nitta is the British-Japanese duo Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta, a transdisciplinary conceptual studio that investigates the future and human evolution, sometimes from a dystopian or archaeological stance. Their works have been exhibited at MoMA New York, Centre Pompidou Paris, V&A Museum London, and the Royal Academy London. Teaching appointments include at the Royal College of Art London, Kings College London, and Central Saint Martins. Their focus lies on: speculative futures, and human life through the prism of its entanglement with intangible biological communities. Commenting on Republic of Salivation, Tim Parsons—one of re:future lab’s fellows—says “this work does not hinge upon its scientific accuracy, its moral relationship to our own values or even its plausibility to become reality”.

Burton Nitta

In the media. MOMA, Republic of Salivation (Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta)—including a comment by Tim Parsons (Parsons & Charlesworth, also fellow artists of the re:future lab); Manhattan Digest, Design and Violence—MoMA’s online experiment; King’s College London, Food fictions; Centre Pompidou, La Fabrique du Vivant [The Fabric of the living]; Sommerset House, Studio residents Burton Nitta