Good Morning Japan
Video 00:07:58
Scotland
2018
Good Morning Japan is a video work by Elina Bry that reflects on the body’s vulnerabilities, medical routines, and personal encounters with the UK healthcare system. Through a blend of performance and autobiographical narrative, the piece revisits a lifelong struggle with migraines—tracing back to a childhood dismissal by a doctor who accused her of mimicking her mother. In response, Bry turns to a Japanese exercise routine, using it as both a coping mechanism and a choreographed expression of bodily resilience. The work thoughtfully navigates themes of misdiagnosis, routine, and reclaiming agency over one's own health.
Good Morning Japan has been exhibited as part of Bry’s MFA degree show at the Glue Factory in Glasgow, and internationally in exhibitions such as Dare You Do This? FFFF it! (Taiwan) and Feeling Myself at Lakeside Clinic (Hungary).