NEWS

2018

[Exhibition]
Plot Against Gravity
印
September 20th
Lämmlisbrunnenstrasse 50
9000 St.Gallen
Switzerland
http://epepep.ch/detail/plot-against-gravity-20th-of-september-2018-16

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[Film festivals]
Mountain Plain Mountain
(in collaboration with Daniel Jacoby)
Official film website: http://mountainplainmountain.non.bz/

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[Residency]
Guest artist
Rijksacademie van beeldende kunsten
May 26th - August 25th
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
https://www.rijksakademie.nl/ENG/kunstenaars/gast-residents/

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[ Film Festival ]
WRONG REVISION
Short Film Competition Programme II
4/3 Tues. 6pm
Hong Kong Arts Centre Cinema
The 42nd Hong Kong International Film Festival
http://www.hkiff.org.hk/film/getdetail?fid=410

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[ Exhibition ]
LOST HIGHWAY (Sweded)
Bijutsutecho x VOLVO ART PROJECT III
3/9 - 17
VOLVO STUDIO AOYAMA
https://vc-japan.jp/aoyama/event/

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[ Screening ]
See Through 2: Behind the Scenes
programmer: Julian Ross
artists: Daniel Jacoby, Yu Araki, Maeve Brennan
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum 1F Hall
2/10 Sat. 11:30
2/15 Thu. 15:00
2/20 Tue. 18:30 *after talk
2/23 Fri. 15:00
As part of 10th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions
https://www.yebizo.com/en/program/detail/2018-04-02

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[ Performance ]
* TPAM fringe 2018 Participation work 
The Ghost Writer
Reiko Takayama 
Yu Araki + participants
Takuya Fukui
2/10, Open: 7pm, Start: 7:30pm
2/11, Open: 3:30pm, Start: 4:00pm
Admission: ¥2,500
TPAM Registrant Benefit: ¥500 discount
TPAM reservation
https://www.tpam.or.jp/program/2018/?program=blanclass-anthology-no3
http://blanclass.com/english/schedule/20180210-11

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[ Exhibition ]
Out of Sinking
February 8th - 15th
curator: Chie Sumiyoshi (TRAUMARIS)
artists: Sayaka Akiyama, Yu Araki, Minami Arai
AL, Tokyo
http://al-tokyo.blogspot.jp/2017/12/2018out-of-sinking.html

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[ Film Festival ]
Mountain Plain Mountain, Official Selection, Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
Wrong Revision, Official Selection, Bright Future Short
The 47th International Film Festival Rotterdam
January 24th - February 4th
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
https://iffr.com/

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[ collaboration ]
I don’t speak for anyone so don’t you dare speak for me
Yu Araki and AKUMANOSHIRUSHI 
2018
sound installation
666 tweets from @kigch Twitter account (April 24th, 2011 - March 13th, 2017)
voice: Rie Usui (Momonga Complex)

as part of Building Romance, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
January 20th - April 8th
Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture (Japan)
http://www.museum.toyota.aichi.jp/exhibition/2018/special/buldingRomance.html

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2017

[ Artists Talk ] 
WRONG PERSON: YU ARAKI, HARUKA ARAMAKI, MIYU ARAKI
November 18th
Open 6:30pm, Start 7:30pm
General Admission: ¥1,500
blanClass, Yokohama (Japan)
http://blanclass.com/english/schedule/20171128

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[ Solo Exhibition ] 
Bivalvia: Act I
September 16th - October 28th
MUJIN-TO Production, Tokyo (Japan)
http://www.mujin-to.com/index_e.htm

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[ Residency ] 
ACC | Asia Culture Center, Gwangju (South Korea)
August 1st - October 31st
https://www.acc.go.kr/en

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[ Workshop ] 
MacGyver Filmmaking: DIY Camera Apparatuses
July 6th (Thurs.), 11:00 - 18:00 (one hour lunch break)
Workshop leaders: Daniel Jacoby & Yu Araki
Hangar, Barcelona (Spain)
https://hangar.org/en/news/workshop-macgyver-filmmaking-diy-camera-apparatuses/

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[ Group Exhibition ] 
The Way Things Do
June 30th - October 1st
curators: Serafín Álvarez and Martina Millà
artists: Serafín Álvarez, Cécile B. Evans and Daniel Jacoby & Yu Araki
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (Spain)
https://www.fmirobcn.org/en/exhibitions/5723/the-way-things-do/actual

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[ Group Exhibition ] 
Parplume University and Yoichi Umetsu
June 1st - 18th
WATARI-UM, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (Japan)
http://www.watarium.co.jp/exhibition/1706umetsu/index.html

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[ Screening ] 
Herr Jakob Johann Baron von Uexküll
April 19th (Wed.) 5:30 - 6:45 pm
curators: Kiyoto Koseki & Jessica Sarah Rinland
Harvard Film Archive
24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA (USA)
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/

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[ Theatre ] 
Walking with Cancers
March 25th (Sat.) & 26th (Sun.)
Kurashiki City Art Museum
Kurashiki, Okayama (Japan)
https://walkingwithcancers.tumblr.com/
http://www.akumanoshirushi.com/

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[ Screening ]
Azamino Art Cinema Vol.3: Yu Araki “Modus Operandi”
March 18th (Sat.)
curator: Taro Amano
coordinator: Mitsuhiro Obara
Yokohama Civic Gallery Azamino
Yokohama (Japan)
http://artazamino.jp/event/azamino-salon-20170318/

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[ Screening ]
Film Screening & Artist Talk: Krissakorn Thinthupthai & Yu Araki
Moderator: Taro Amano (Curator in Chief, Program Director, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino)
March 12th (Sun.) 14:00 - 16:00
Tokyo Wonder Site Residency
Tokyo (Japan)
http://www.tokyo-ws.org/english/archive/2017/01/r0201.shtml

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[ Film Festival ]
The First Nimman Film Festival 2017 (NIFF)
Japanese Artists’ Film Program
curator: Hitomi Hasegawa (MIACA - Moving Image Archive of Contemporary Art)
February 17th
Asian Culture Station hosted by Asia Center Japan Foundation and Chiangmai Art Conversation
Auditorium Room, Chiang Mai University Art Center
Chiang Mai (Thailand)
http://www.asianculturestation.cac-art.info/gallery/niff2017/

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[ Group Exhibition ]
Chronicle, Chronicle!
curator: Arata Hasegawa & director Dai Hijikata
January 23rd - February 19th
Creative Center OSAKA (CCO)
Osaka (Japan)
http://www.chronicle-chronicle.jp/

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[ Event ]
Master class by Boris Groys
January 19th
Goethe-Institut Tokyo
Tokyo (Japan)
http://groysinjapan.tumblr.com/