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MIKA JOHNSON

I am an artist and educator, specializing in creating multimedia works and immersive installations, where dream-like narratives, mythology, ritual, and ecology intersect. I also direct both fiction and documentary film projects.

My background is in filmmaking, photography, sound, and writing, alongside a long-term meditation practice and training in Somatic Experiencing®. Rather than treating these as separate disciplines, I work with them as a single, integrated artistic practice.

I am the co-founder of and Creative Lead at Experience Aika: a studio dedicated to designing multisensory experiences rooted in time, presence, and nature. Through Experience Aika, I develop pop-up installations, workshops, and retreats.

Alongside this, I am a co-founder of Theta Noir: a performance art collective for embodied experimentation, all devoted to an ecological myth. Theta Noir is my lab for creating rituals, where symbolic work and performance are tested with live participants.

Once a year, I co-lead Wandering Cinema: a traveling film retreat where filmmakers come together for workshops, screenings, and masterclasses. With my two co-founders, we create space to share, listen, and explore cinema beyond the usual pressures of pitching and production

From Feb to May 2026, I will be an artist in residence at La SOURCE, where I will be developing research at the intersection of ecology, ritual, and creative practice. I also regularly speak and teach internationally, including an upcoming presentation in February at AFTRS, where I will address creativity, specifically what sustains creative practice under pressure. Drawing on such thinkers as Rick Rubin, Brian Eno, Paul Thek, and Sister Corita Kent, the address frames creativity not as talent or inspiration, but as something that depends on carefully curated conditions.

My ongoing collaboration with meditation teacher and friend Jan Kysela, in Prague, includes The Reset Room: an onsite meditation and nervous-system renewal practice designed for companies and institutions. This work helps people reset attention and restore balance within their workday .

Across all of these contexts, my focus remains the same: to create conditions where people can slow down, listen more deeply, and re-enter relationships with their own experience.

Creativity Coaching 
Alongside my artistic work, I offer one-to-one coaching based on somatic awareness, creative inquiry, and inner exploration. More about this work can be found on the Coaching page.

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