The 8th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, "Gardens in Movement," will be held from February 11th to 20th, 2016, at The Garden Hall in Yebisu Garden Place and other venues.

The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions is an art and video festival that introduces a wide range of genres, including contemporary art, film, dance, theater, and music. This year's 8th festival will feature a variety of works based on the theme of "gardens in movement" at multiple venues, including The Garden Hall, Yebisu Garden Cinema, The Garden Room, STUDIO 38, an art space on the 38th floor of the Garden Place Tower building, and the Maison Franco-Japonaise. The Garden Room will feature a panel exhibition showcasing the ideas and activities of Gilles Clément, the gardener, landscaper, and novelist who proposed the concept of the "garden in motion." Other exhibits include Janan Al-Arni's "Ground Works III," which explores the hidden reality beneath seemingly uninhabited surfaces; Jodi's "GEOGOO," which deconstructs the attributes and symbolic meanings of the internet and games to reveal their abstraction and materiality; "Bug's Beat," which features insect footsteps at high volume; and "Silt Bank: Moving Paintings," which observes the movement of sand and mineral pigments inside a antlion. Yebisu Garden Cinema will screen "No Home Movie," the posthumous work of Chantal Akerman, known as a pioneer of European experimental film, and "12 Sisters," a film from the golden age of Cambodian cinema that was discovered in France and screened at the Berlin International Film Festival and is one of the few to survive the 20-year civil war. Other notable works include Ben Russell's trilogy, which has been exhibited and screened at numerous art museums and film festivals, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Rotterdam International Film Festival, as well as a one-night-only sound and video performance by the artist.

Other works on display at the venue include "Fog Garden 'For Louisiana'" by Fujiko Nakaya, who has created works using fog, such as the project that covered the Pepsi Pavilion in artificial fog at the 1970 Osaka Expo, and "Landscape and Video" by Ryota Kuwakubo, known for his installations in which LED-lit model trains are driven among buckets and pencils lined up on the floor of a dark room, creating the illusion of cityscapes and nature coming into motion, as if one were looking out the window.

[Event Information]
8th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions "Gardens in Motion"
Venue: The Garden Hall, The Garden Room, Yebisu Garden Cinema, Maison Franco-Japonaise, STUDIO38, Yebisu Garden Place Center Plaza, etc.
Dates: February 11th - 20th, 2016
Time: 10:00 - 20:00
Admission is free (some screenings and events require a fee)
Open daily throughout the festival