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The 3rd Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions

18 February 2011 - 27 February 2011

From 18-27 February, the 3rd Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions will be held in Tokyo. To underscore the strength of the video image, this year's exhibition is based on the theme of 'Daydream Believer', and the notion of video as a technology that wraps its audience with fantasies.

Joining many international artists who include film-giants Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Jan Svankmajer, will be Melbourne-based video-artist Daniel Crooks. On the 19 February, Crooks will present a lounge-talk on his work 'Static No.11 - running man'.

Other artists from Australia and New Zealand will also be exhibited in the South by Southeast special screening programmed by Australian/New Zealand curator Mark Feary, in Tokyo on an Asialink arts management residency. Tokyo audiences will be exposed to new art work from contemporary artists SJ Ramir, Shaun Gladwell and Patricia Piccinini, as well as that of several less well-known artists for the first time. Additionally, an off-site exhibition will be held in the garden outside the museum by Tokyo based duo Australian Danielle Wilde and Uruguayan Alvaro Cassinelli, entitled 'Invisible skirt and other imaginary things'.

Two works entitled 'Mother' and 'Other' by Australian video artists Tracey Moffat and Gary Hillberg will be included as part of the 'Found Memories - Use and Reference' session. 'Mother' addresses the way in which motherhood is represented through Hollywood films. These works have prescience in Japan, where the concept of 'fair use' is still not yet widely applied.

Held at the Tokyo Museum of Photography, exhibitions, live performances, panels and talk sessions are being held to stimulate the imagination and possibilities for mapping the video image in the past, present and future. Accompanying the real exhibition in which the works can be viewed, art works will be archived on-line according to festivals, exhibitions and collections.

Daniel Crooks

Born 1973, Hastings, New Zealand, Crooks's works in digital video, photography and installation are about time, quotidian reality, and its perception. Graduated from Auckland Institute of Technology and the Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and Television, Crooks received an Australia Council Fellowship in 1997 to research motion control at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. His exhibitions include 'Primavera 2003' at Sydney's MCA, solos at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Level 2 Project Space, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and shows in Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States and Asia. His numerous awards include the 2001 City of Stuttgart Prize for Animation and an Australian Short Film Award at the 1996 Sydney International Film Festival.

The 3rd Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions

Exhibition
Date	18 February 2011 - 27 February 2011
	10:00 - 20:00 *Open until 18:00 on Sunday 27 February
Venue	Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Yebisu Garden Place 1-13-3 Mita, Meguro, Tokyo 153-0062 7 min walk from East Exit of Ebisu Station Phone: 03-3280-0099 Website*: http://www.syabi.com/
Admission	Admission free

Danielle WILDE ＋ Alvaro CASSINELLI In-visible skirt and other imaginary things
Date	18 February 2011 - 27 February 2011 *Closed on Monday 21 February due to electrical power outage.
	11:30 - 21:00 Demonstration: 16:30- on Saturday 19, Sunday 20, Saturday 26 February
Venue	Yebisu Garden Place, Center Plaza

Lounge Talk: Daniel Crooks
Date	19 February 2011
	14:00 - 15:30
Venue	Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2F Lounge Yebisu Garden Place 1-13-3 Mita, Meguro, Tokyo 153-0062 7 min walk from East Exit of Ebisu Station Website*: http://www.syabi.com/
Admission	Admission free

South by Southeast: Australasian Video Art
Date	20 February 2011 - 24 February 2011
	Sunday 20 February 2011, 10:30-12:30 Thursday 24 February 2011, 16:00-18:00
Venue	Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1F Hall Yebisu Garden Place 1-13-3 Mita, Meguro, Tokyo 153-0062 7 min walk from East Exit of Ebisu Station Phone: 03-3280-0099 Website*: http://www.syabi.com/
Admission	Pre-booked 900yen At the door 1,000yen

Found Memories
Date	20 February 2011 - 25 February 2011 Sunday 20 February 2011, 13:00-15:00 Friday 25 February 2011, 13:00-15:00
	Tracey MOFFATT + Gary HILLBERG "Mother" 2009 / 20min Tracey MOFFATT + Gary HILLBERG "Other" 2009 / 7min
Venue	Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1F Hall Yebisu Garden Place 1-13-3 Mita, Meguro, Tokyo 153-0062 7 min walk from East Exit of Ebisu Station Phone: 03-3280-0099 Website*: http://www.syabi.com/
Admission	Pre-booked 900yen At the door 1,000yen

Danielle WILDE ＋ Alvaro CASSINELLI In-visible skirt and other imaginary things Platform 1,2: Lecture and Demonstration
Date	23 February 2011
	16:30 - 18:00
Venue	Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2F Cafe Lounge Yebisu Garden Place 1-13-3 Mita, Meguro, Tokyo 153-0062 7 min walk from East Exit of Ebisu Station Phone: 03-3280-0099 Website*: http://www.syabi.com/
Admission	Admission free

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Links: The 3rd Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions Daniel Crooks Danielle Wilde Wave Front - the Forefront of Australian Contemporary Art (2006) Australia-Japan Photography Exhibition (2006) Supported by Australia-Japan Foundation Credit lines for the above images (Right) DANIEL CROOKS Static No. 11 (man running) 2008 Courtesy the artist & Anna Schwartz Gallery Melbourne and Sydney

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