Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2024 - 30 Ways to Go to the Moon
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
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Kathy Acker, Ryoko Aoki + Zon Ito, Ei Arakawa Nash, Yu Araki, Cory Arcangel, Kaoru Arima, John Baldessari, Bernadette Corporation, Dara Birnbaum, Chen Lindong, Choi Minho, Chou Ching-Hui, Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda, Harold Crooks, Fenberger House / Roger Mcdonald, Flying Monkeys Production, David Hammons, Yuka Hasegawa et al.
More than half a century has passed since the Apollo 11 lunar landing, and the idea of people casually traveling to the moon seems less of a technical impossibility. However, it is the ideas and practices of artists, which at first glance seem to have no connection to such an endeavor, that may surpass advances in science, technology, and theory and connect to discoveries and creative avenues that provide important hints for going to the moon.
The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2024 will attempt to unravel the proposition of “finding a means to go to the moon” through various expressive forms with a focus on photography and moving images, considering not only the artists but also the audience participating in the festival. Through historical and contemporary works, the festival will explore the possibilities for “images” from diverse perspectives.
*The theme is from the title of Tsuchiya Nobuko’s “30 Ways To Go To The Moon” exhibition, held in 2018
Featuring moving images, photographs, and documents by artists from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, including works from the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum collection, the 2nd-floor exhibition gallery explores the world through the collective intelligence that is derived from these works. Held in the center of the exhibition space will be a daily program of performances, live events, screenings, talks, discussions, and workshops, creating a space where the artists and visitors can communicate and share ideas. By making each person a witness to the events, this exhibition aims to create a viewing experience that resembles both a recording device (media) and an illustrated book of memories.
The basement floor exhibition gallery presents works and projects that suggest unknown possibilities and ideas that cannot be fully understood by science and theory. Suppose the 2nd floor is a collective intellectual space. In that case, the basement floor can be the starting point of an endless journey into the future where we can learn from the collective knowledge and leap forward with our imaginations.
One of the features of this year’s festival is its focus on the one-time nature of moving images. The festival plans to introduce performances and unique pieces; works that address temporal depth and limitations by rendering it impossible to witness (or view) them in their totality, and works that are completed and seem to disappear on-site by allowing physical action and thought to affect the filmmaking process. All are works of film and video (reproducible art forms) yet their focus on originality or “one-timeness” is the antithesis of repetition and non-location.
The festival will also further strengthen connections between the screening and exhibition programs, attempting to create mutual crossovers among them.
The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2024 will attempt to unravel the proposition of “finding a means to go to the moon” through various expressive forms with a focus on photography and moving images, considering not only the artists but also the audience participating in the festival. Through historical and contemporary works, the festival will explore the possibilities for “images” from diverse perspectives.
*The theme is from the title of Tsuchiya Nobuko’s “30 Ways To Go To The Moon” exhibition, held in 2018
Featuring moving images, photographs, and documents by artists from diverse social and cultural backgrounds, including works from the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum collection, the 2nd-floor exhibition gallery explores the world through the collective intelligence that is derived from these works. Held in the center of the exhibition space will be a daily program of performances, live events, screenings, talks, discussions, and workshops, creating a space where the artists and visitors can communicate and share ideas. By making each person a witness to the events, this exhibition aims to create a viewing experience that resembles both a recording device (media) and an illustrated book of memories.
The basement floor exhibition gallery presents works and projects that suggest unknown possibilities and ideas that cannot be fully understood by science and theory. Suppose the 2nd floor is a collective intellectual space. In that case, the basement floor can be the starting point of an endless journey into the future where we can learn from the collective knowledge and leap forward with our imaginations.
One of the features of this year’s festival is its focus on the one-time nature of moving images. The festival plans to introduce performances and unique pieces; works that address temporal depth and limitations by rendering it impossible to witness (or view) them in their totality, and works that are completed and seem to disappear on-site by allowing physical action and thought to affect the filmmaking process. All are works of film and video (reproducible art forms) yet their focus on originality or “one-timeness” is the antithesis of repetition and non-location.
The festival will also further strengthen connections between the screening and exhibition programs, attempting to create mutual crossovers among them.
Schedule | Feb 2 (Fri) 2024-Feb 18 (Sun) 2024 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||||
| Website | https://www.yebizo.com/en/ | ||||||
| Venue | Tokyo Photographic Art Museum http://topmuseum.jp/e/contents/index.html | ||||||
| Location | Yebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku, 153-0062 Tokyo | ||||||
| Access | 7 minute walk from the East exit of Ebisu Station on the JR Yamanote and Saikyo lines, 11 minute walk from exit 1 at Ebisu Station on the Hibiya line. | ||||||
| Phone | 03-3280-0099 |
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