Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2010
Image Festival to open up new possibilities for an image culture
Synopsis
For ten days each year, the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions uses the entire Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography to present a festival of vision and art that includes a creative complex of exhibitions, screening programs, live events, lectures, and talks.
Through the selection of “songs” as the focus this year, we hope to readdress the questions and answers that emerged from our initial exploration of vision, gently weaving together a rich array of works and subjects into a coherent whole. The 2010 festival will explode beyond the walls of its museum home to mount off-site exhibitions in Yebisu Garden Place’s Central Square.
Schedule
Friday, February 19 － Sunday, February 28, 2010
■The International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions Official Website: http://www.yebizo.com/
Venue
All floors of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
And All floors of the Yebisu Garden Place’s Central Square
Organizers
Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography／Tokyo Culture Creation Project (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
Nikkei Inc.
Cosponsor
Yebisu Garden Place Co.,Ltd
Admission
Free of charge (There will be a charge, however, for screenings with limited seating and other special events within the program; the schedule and other details will be posted on the website as soon as they are available.)
Screenings
Venue: Hall, 1F; 190 persons per screening; admission charge. (Each screening lasts about 100 minutes, with three or four screenings a day throughout the ten-day festival.)
Searching Songs is the theme for works that will be screened in the Hall (1F). The diverse and highly international program includes selections from overseas made by our spirited curator in conjunction with other organizations, in a program linked to film festivals and groups screening works. Solo shows to explore the work of a single artist and efforts to elucidate the history of imaging are also part of this rich program. (Admission is charged for screenings.)
Exhibitions
Venues: Exhibition Galleries (3F, 2F, B1F); no admission charge
This platform presents creative work that goes beyond the screen: two-and three-dimensional works, installations, works shown on monitors, audio works, and interactive devices.
Artists showing work include:
Vito ACCONCI (U.S.A.), IKUNISHI Yasunori (Japan) , Ming WONG (Singapore and Germany), Anders EDSTROM (Sweden and Japan), Alfredo JAAR (Chile and the U.S.A.), Katarina ZDJELAR (Serbia and the Netherlands), TAKAMINE Goh (Japan), Fiona TAN (Indonesia and the Netherlands), TSUZUKI Kyoichi (Japan), Nam June PAIK (Korea and Germany), Tim LEE (Korea and Canada), YAMASHIRO Chikako (Japan)
Off Site
Venues: Yebisu Garden Place’s Central Square, Shibuya Television, outdoors in Shibuya
Our off-site exhibitions take the festival out of the museum galleries, to bring art to public spaces. Visual images abound, of course, in every part of today’s cities. Our off-site events include experiential images to be enjoyed, not just viewed.
Live Events, Talks by the Artists, Café Projections
Venues:
Live events: Exhibition Galleries (B1F and others); admission for 200 persons; admission charge
Café Projections: Projection corner in Entrance Lobby (2F); no admission charge
(for those viewing from seats in the 2F Café, purchase of food or a beverage is, however, required)
The galleries will be the venues for experimental live events spanning a variety of genres and media.
Website
The official website, www.yebizo.com, will chronicle and present the results of the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions. After the festival ends, discussion will continue in five areas—Essays, Topics, Dialogues, Words on Images and Visions, and Roundtables—on the topic of images, to continue to build the networks this festival helped connect.
■The International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions Official Website: http://www.yebizo.com/
Contact
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
〒153-0062YebisuGarden Place, 1-13-3 Mita Meguro-ku Tokyo
Tel.03-3280-0031／03-3280-0035 Fax.03-3280-0033
