PROGRAM
TOP 30th Anniversary
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2025
Commission Project
The Commission Project was launched at the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023 as a new program of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, in which artists based in Japan are selected and commissioned to create and exhibit moving-image works as products of a new Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions. At the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2025, an exhibition of new works by the four finalists of the second edition, Oda Kaori, Komori Haruka, Nagata Kosuke, and Makihara Eri, will be realized in the 3rd floor exhibition gallery in alignment with the overall theme, “Docs: Images and Records.” The theme of this year’s festival, “Docs: Images and Records” was inspired by the characteristics of the works of the four finalists in the commission project all question the conventional “record.”
Exhibition of the New Works by the Finalists of the Second Commission Project
- Period:
- January31–March23, 2025 Closed on Mondays
- Place:
- January31–March23, 2025 Closed on Mondays
- Venue:
- Tokyo Photographic Art Museum 3F Exhibition Gallery
- Time:
- 10:00–20:00 (January 31–February 15)
10:00–18:00 (February 16–March 23; until 20:00 on Thursdays and Fridays only)
*Last admission is 30 minutes before closing.
- Admission:
- Free
Selection of the Special Prize
A jury composed of five domestic and international experts who are familiar with trends in the field of moving images will hold a jury meeting during the exhibition to select the Special Prize.
Jury
OKI Keisuke
Media artist. Graduated from Tama Art University, and studied in Lee Ufan’s class. Was a SfCI researcher at Carnegie Mellon University (1997–99). While presenting post-minimal works, he was involved in the activities of the Video Gallery SCAN, and was a jury member for open-call exhibitions. He exhibited at Artists Today, the 1st Yokohama Triennale (Kanagawa, 2001), Transmediale (Berlin, 2008), etc. He was selected for the 16th Bijutsutecho Art Criticism Award Honorable Mention, and has been writing for Leonardo (MIT Press), InterCommunication (NTT Publishing), etc.
SAITO Ayako
Professor at the Department of Art Studies, Faculty of Letters, Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in film studies. Published writings include “Hitchcock’s Trilogy: A Logic of Mise-en-Scène” (Endless Night: Cinema and Psychoanalysis, Parallel Histories, 1999), “Reading as Woman: The Collaboration of Ayako Wakao and Yasuzo Masumura” (Reclaiming the Archive: Feminism and Film Theory, 2010), “Occupation and Memory: The Representation of Woman’s Body in Postwar Japanese Cinema” (The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema, 2014), and “Kinuyo and Sumie: When Women Write and Direct” (Tanaka Kinuyo: Nation, Stardom and Female Subjectivity, 2018), and “Shiraito Redux: Text, Body, Desire from Kyoka to Mizoguchi” (A Companion to Japanese Cinema, 2022).
Leonhard BARTOLOMEUS
Born in 1987. Curator at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM], Japan. In 2012, after graduating from the Jakarta Institute of Art, he joined ruangrupa (and later on as Gudskul Ekosistem) until his departure to Japan in 2019. His curatorial, teaching, and research activities in recent years started to shift to the intersection between art, education, and community engagement. In 2017, alongside several curators in Jakarta, Semarang, and Surabaya, he co-founded a curatorial collective called KKK (Kolektif Kurator Kampung /Urban Poor Curator). Apart from that, he still devotes himself to independent research and collaborative projects abroad. He lives and works in Yamaguchi, Japan.
May Adadol INGAWANIJ
Writer, curator and teacher. Her work mainly revolves around the de-westernized and decentered histories and genealogies of cinematic arts; avant-garde legacies in Southeast Asia; forms of potentiality and future-making in contemporary artistic and curatorial practices; and the aesthetics and circulation of video works, art and independent films in, around, and related to Southeast Asia. Professor of Cinematic Arts at the University of Westminster, where she co-directs the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media.
TASAKA Hiroko
Curator at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum/Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions. Born in Tokyo. Her main projects include “Quest for Vision Vol.5 - Spelling Dystopia” (2012–13), “Shiro Takatani: La Chambre Claire” (2013–14), “Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Ghosts in the Darkness” (2016–17), “Japanese Expanded Cinema Revisited” (2017), “exonemo UN-DEAD-LINK” (2020), “After the Landscape Theory” (2023), and the 2nd to 16th Yebisu International Festivals for Art & Alternative Visions (2009–24).
Administration/examination of the Commission Project: NPO Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT]