The annual Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions is a fifteen-day extravaganza of exhibitions, screenings, live performances, talks, and other events combining art and visual expression.
Each year, we focus on a single theme through which we address the same fundamental question- "What is an image?"- while enjoying a wealth of works of art and programs from throughout the world.
This year's theme, for the fifth of these festivals, is "Public⇔Diary". In a world in which the boundary between public and private is much contested in response to changes in media technologies and information systems, we consider the nature of creative expression, the expressive potential of visual media, and the issues they present through the diary- a private document, but one sometimes made public. Why does someone keep a diary? How might we decipher a diary another has left behind? Those are questions that touch on the very core of art as a matter of reception as well as expression.
This year, the exhibition features works by contemporary artists from Israel- "Promised Land".
Guest Programmer:
Maayan Sheleff
Works: (Dialogues in Hebrew / Subtitled in English and Japanese)
Nir Evron, "In Virgin Land", 13min.
Michael Zupraner, "The Snow Tapes", 13min.
Nira Pereg, "And Melancholy", 3min.
Nevet Yitzhak, "Salute", 5min.
Boaz Arad and Miki Kratsman, "21:40", 6min
Meir Tati, "Tikkun", 9min.
Roy Menachem Markovitch, "And We Worked", 4min
Dana Levy, "Silent Among Us", 5min.
Chaya Ruckin, "To Kill the Sun", 3min.
Dor Guez, "Sabir", 19min.
Tickets:
Advance 1000 yen
Doors 850 yen