Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2020
The imagination of time

7 – 23 February 2020
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and other venues

 
Every year, the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions takes place at Ebisu, a hip section of Tokyo close to Meguro and Daikanyama.

The festival showcases a wide variety of visual and media art through exhibitions, video screenings, talks and live shows.

Highlights of the Art & Alternative Visions Festival 2020

◆ Theme: The imagination of time*

The 12th annual meet up will take place under the theme of “The imagination of time (*)” [the original translation].

In visual arts, time can be fluid, nonlinear. Time goes backwards as well as forwards freely. The festival will highlight the fluidity of time in a selection of visual works.

◆ Screening of films & videos

The 2020 programme includes a special screening of works by the experimental filmmaker Ben Rivers, and the projection of videos and films by Japanese and guest artists.

【Place】Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (1F Hall)

Ben RIVERS, Ghost Strata, 2019
Courtesy of Ben Rivers and LUX, London

ODA Kaori, Cenote, 2019
AAC/APMoA Film

LIU Maoning, Me and my magnet and my dead friend, 2019

◆ Exhibition

Showing a selection of exhibits, including new works and Japan premieres, to experience a metamorphic time in visual arts.

【Place】Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (3F, 2F, B1F exhibition halls); Maison franco-japonaise (Gallery)

KIMURA Yuki, MPEG-4 H.264 Reflecting in Sizes, 2019
Courtesy of Jenny’s Thanks to Taka Ishii Gallery

Shuzo AZUCHI Gulliver, De-time #30., 1985 [related image]

Anna RIDLER, Mosaic Virus, 2018-201

◆ Off-site exhibition

Featuring “Hanabirium”, a 360-degree video on fireworks (“hanabi” in Japanese), which gives an omnidirectional visual experience

【Place】 Yebisu Garden Place (Center Plaza)

Hanabirium [related image]© Marutamaya