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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/2877" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/2877">
  <Name>&quot;Open Space 2011&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/08BF3F48">
    <Name>NTT ICC Inter Communication Center</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Tokyo Opera City Tower 4F, 3-20-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1404 Japan</Address>
    <Phone>0120-144199</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>2 minutes walk from the East Exit at Hatsudai Station on the Keio New Line</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>On a Public Holiday Monday, the ICC is open, but closed the following Tuesday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Open Space includes a gallery, a mini-theater, and ICC video archive &quot;HIVE.&quot; Since its inauguration in 2006, the space has been open to the public free of charge, presenting new exhibitions annually.

In addition to exhibiting media art by prominent local and overseas artists and newcomers—and other ongoing projects—the space incorporates a themed exhibit area in which the changing relationship between media, arts and society is documented. By displaying artist’s works and also providing explanations of their social, cultural, and ideological background through artist interviews and other material, the Open Space aims to introduce the bond between “media technology and artistic culture” in a simple and easy-to-understand way, constituting a pillar of ICC activities. It also serves as a place where the possibility of a new communication culture based on artistic expression using advanced technology can be demonstrated.

2011's exhibition looks at the theme of the art and communication technology over the last fifty years.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>30.7597</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-10-22</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed for winter holidays from December 26th - January 4th, closed for maintenance on February 12th</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>32</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.679581</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.6892</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/4C03" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/4C03">
  <Name>&quot;Visual Circus&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/DA237357">
    <Name>Skip City Sainokuni Visual Plaza</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>3-12-63, Kamiaoki, Kawaguchi, Saitama　333-0844</Address>
    <Phone>048-265-2500</Phone>
    <Fax>048-265-2628</Fax>
    <Access>12 minutes by bus from Nishi-Kawaguchi Station on JR Keihin-Tohoku Line, 10 minutes by bus from Hatogaya station on the Saitama railway line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="other">Kanto: others</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>17:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>On a public holiday Monday, the venue is open blut closed on the following tuesday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Digital</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Introduces the work of artists and groups that merge video footage with performance, two media forms that at first glance may not seem to work together harmoniously. Featured artists include off-Nibroll, AR Sankyodai (Augmented Reality Three Brothers) and Maywa Denki. During the three-month exhibition period there will also be performances and the exhibition area will be transformed into a vivid, varied space.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>5.20179</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥500, Junior High and Elementary School Students ¥250</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-08</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>9:30-17:00 (Admission until 16:30), Closed 12/29-1/3 &amp; 3/21-23</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>53</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.823886</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.723828</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2011/69BB" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2011/69BB">
  <Name>&quot;Fuyuko Matsui Exhibition - Becoming Friends with All the Children in the World&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/603694BD">
    <Name>Yokohama Museum Of Art</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>3-4-1, Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken 220-0012</Address>
    <Phone>045-221-0300</Phone>
    <Fax>045-221-0317</Fax>
    <Access>10 minutes walk using &quot;moving walk way&quot; from Sakuragicho station on the JR, Tokyu Toyoko or Yokohama lines. 3 minutes walk from the &quot;Museum&quot; exit at Mimatomirai station on the Minatomirai line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="kanagawa">Yokohama, Kanagawa</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This is Fuyuko Matsui's first large-scale solo show at a public art museum. Her work was previously included in a group exhibition of nihonga painters at this museum in 2006.

Matsui was born in Morimachi, Shizuoka prefecture in 1974 and studied nihonga painting at the Tokyo University of the Arts. Her graduation work took the notion of psychological and physical pain as its starting point, and her subsequent works have centered on provocative themes such as terror, madness, narcissism, sex, birth and death.

On display will be a selection of her most representative works, drafts and rough sketches, including some 80 new pieces created expressly for this exhibition. There will also be screenings of videos and films that represent Matsui's first attempt at art direction.

See website for details on related talks and other events.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>139.4</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1100, University Students and High School Students ¥700, Junior High Students ¥400, Elementary School Students and under Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2011-12-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed from December 29th - January 3rd</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>32</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.453511</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.633489</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/0896" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/0896">
  <Name>&quot;Film Here and Now&quot; Screening</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/F731D4A7">
    <Name>amu</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>1-17-2 Ebisu Nishi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0022</Address>
    <Phone>03-5725-0145</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5725-0146</Fax>
    <Access>4 minutes walk from the West exit of Ebisu Station on the JR and Hibiya lines.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In association with the Yebisu International Festival for Art &amp; Alternative Visions 2012, this series of screenings features the work of filmmakers and film and media arts students.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0"></Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-15</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>0</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.64503</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.710359</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/11B9" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/11B9">
  <Name>Hirotoshi Iwasaki &quot;into silence&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/162DA10E">
    <Name>Gallery Terra Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1-3-2-6F Kiyosumi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0024</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>7 minutes walk from Exit A3 at Kiyosumi Shirakawa Station on the Hanzomon and Oedo Lines; 9 minutes walk from Exit 2 at Suitengumae Station on the Hanzomon Line</Access>
    <Area areaId="koto_odaiba">Kiyosumi, Odaiba</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Iwasaki consistently tries to turn invisible existence - time, space and memory - into perceivable things. As a method of making invisible existence perceivable, he uses moving images that go beyond the language barrier. The moving image works in conjunction with supplementary drawings on a piece of paper to produce a poetic atmosphere.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>3.09783</Karma>
  <Price free="0"></Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-03</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-04" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>17</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.678167</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.796506</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/1CAA" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/1CAA">
  <Name>G-tokyo 2012</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/860F8FA2">
    <Name>Mori Arts Center Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>Roppongi Hills Mori Tower (52F), 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-6150</Address>
    <Phone>03-5777-8600</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>To Roppongi Hills, 10 minutes walk from Roppongi station on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya line, 4 minutes walk from Roppongi station on the Toei Oedo line, 5 minutes walk from Azabu Juban station on the Toei Oedo line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="akasaka_roppongi">Roppongi, Akasaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Depends on each event.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[G-tokyo, a singular art fair, presents a select group of established, Tokyo-based galleries, each acknowledged internationally as being at the forefront of contemporary art. Exhibited works are created especially for presentation at G-tokyo; booths consist of solo exhibitions along with thoughtfully curated group shows.

Rather than expand in size, in deference to the exclusive presentation of the highest quality works of contemporary art, G-tokyo has continued to deliberately limit the number of exhibiting galleries and is anticipating this, the fair's third year, to be the most exciting and refined to date.

Special feature: G-tokyo / α Exhibition
The acquisition of art is the quintessential art fair experience. The G-tokyo /α Exhibition has been designed to help a wider audience enjoy the pleasure of purchasing art and the joy of owning it, and thus will feature works available at an accessible price and size with a focus on new pieces  by emerging artists selected by top galleries; some of the brightest stars of today’s contemporary art scene.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>144</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1100, Students ¥900, Junior High School Students and under ¥500</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Opening Hours: 11:00-21:00 (February 25), 11:00-20:00 (February 26)</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.657036</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.7325</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3A85" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/3A85">
  <Name>&quot;Digital Shock&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/A25AB86F">
    <Name>L'Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Community centre</Type>
    <Address>15 Ichigaya, Funagawaracho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8415</Address>
    <Phone>03-5261-3933</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5261-3927</Fax>
    <Access>7 minutes walk from Exit B3 at Iidabashi Station on the Tozai, Oedo, Yurakucho and Namboku Lines, or 7 minutes walk from the West Exit on the JR Sobu Line</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>09:30:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>mondays openinghour 12:00, sundays openinghour 10:00, saturdays closinghour 19:00, sundays closinghour 18:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Digital</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This is the first time that the French Institute is organizing Digital Shock, a series of events that showcases French creativity in the field of digital culture and new images. The Institute will host original, interactive installations that immerse the viewer in alternative dimensions – those of time, memory and psychological and mental wanderings through social networks and new technologies.
]]></Description>
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  <Karma>21.375</Karma>
  <Price free="0"></Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-08</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-07</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-08" start="18:00:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>21</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.695139</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.743061</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/3ED9" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/3ED9">
  <Name>&quot;Between Visual and Spatial&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/740664F6">
    <Name>gift_lab</Name>
    <Type>Shop or Department Store</Type>
    <Address>Maruyama Bldg. 2F, 1-16-1 Ebisunishi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0021</Address>
    <Phone>03-5784-0441</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5784-0545</Fax>
    <Access>3 minutes from the west exit of JR Ebisu station or exit 4 on the Hibiya line, 5 minutes from Daikanyama station on the Toyoko line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Photography</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Features the video work of six artists working in diverse media in Europe and America, an attempt by each to visualize their own personal actualities.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>7.23039</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>25</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.645672</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.710778</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4398" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/4398">
  <Name>”F.E.S. Yoshiaki Kuribara's Fantastic Eccentric Show with Dokuro All Stars&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/87DE7941">
    <Name>3331 Arts Chiyoda</Name>
    <Type>Community centre</Type>
    <Address>6-11-14 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0021</Address>
    <Phone>03-6803-2441</Phone>
    <Fax>03-6803-2442</Fax>
    <Access>1 minute walk from Exit 4 at Suehirocho Station on the Ginza line, 7 minutes walk from Akihabara JR Station on the Yamanote line, 3 minutes walk from Yushima Station on the Chiyoda line</Access>
    <Area areaId="ueno_yanaka">Ueno, Yanaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>00:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Depends on each event.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[We are glad to present Yoshiaki Kuribara's Fantastic Eccentric Show with Dokuro All Stars, the solo exhibition of the energetic artist Yoshiaki Kuribara to be held in the sports hall of 3331 Arts Chiyoda. Taking &quot;theme Park&quot; as his keyword, Kuribara will present numerous large scale works (both past work and new work) to form a highly original space within the sports hall. With support from the &quot;Dokuro All Stars&quot;, the exhibition space will be activated through performances and film screenings. Proposing a new concept of exhibition making, utilizing a space of 622 sqm, with a height of 6.7m, it is sure to be a giant show!

Who are Dokuro All Stars?
Dokuro All Stars is a term used to refer to members of the organization &quot;Dokuro Kogyo&quot; of which Kuribara is also a member. Dokuro Kogyo is a new platform that aims to support artists by conveying the importance of freedom. Forming a new kind of system, its members aim to concretely realize the function of art within society by testing various different enterprises, led by Satoshi Okada, the art collector and director of MAGIC ROOM???

Taking place at the same time!
On the first floor, &quot;3331 Gallery&quot; will be simultaneously presenting &quot;Yoshiaki Kuribara's Drawing Exhibition&quot;, providing the opportunity to view the drawings which Kuribara creates on a daily basis.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>0</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1000, College and High School students ¥800, Junior High School and Under Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-23</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Exhibition Hours: 12:00-19:00, Closed on Tuesday.</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-23" start="18:30:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>18</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.701</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.774005</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/4432" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/4432">
  <Name>&quot;MAM Project 016: Ho Tzu Nyen&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/61183FDF">
    <Name>Mori Art Museum</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Roppongi Hills Mori Tower (53F), 6-10-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-6150</Address>
    <Phone>03-5777-8600</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>To Roppongi Hills, 10 minutes walk from Roppongi station on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya line, 4 minutes walk from Roppongi station on the Toei Oedo line, 5 minutes walk from Azabu Juban station on the Toei Oedo line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="akasaka_roppongi">Roppongi, Akasaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>22:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>tuesdays closinghour 17:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Based in Singapore, Ho Tzu Nyen presents his works throughout the world—in Hong Kong, London, Paris, Berlin, Sydney, and more—and he has gained prominence at numerous international Biennale and international film festivals. Ho participated in the 2011 Venice Biennale as a representative of Singapore, exhibiting his new work &quot;The Cloud of Unknowing&quot; (2011 - 2012), which was the talk of the town.

Ho reveals the imaginary that lies dormant as shared memory in historical fact and reality. His expression spans myriad planes, working mainly with video in installations, theatre, participatory projects, improvisational collaboration with musicians, and more. Ho has recently been exploring the relationship between image and sound in particular, and by exhibiting &quot;The Cloud of Unknowing&quot; anew as a four-channel video sound installation at this first solo exhibition in Japan, he aims to have the audience experience changes of space in the story caused by synergies of the video and sound. His &quot;Bohemian Rhapsody&quot; (2006), and &quot;Newton&quot; (2009) are also exhibited. His poetic and theatrical world presents the lessons and philosophy comprised by history and legends, and it offers the opportunity to consider what reality is.

ARTIST TALK (Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available)
Speaker: Ho Tzu Nyen
Date: 14:00 -15:30 Saturday, 4 February 2012
Venue: Mori Art Museum
Capacity: 80 (bookings required)
Admission: Free (exhibition ticket required)

Curator's Talk &quot;The Power Of Imagination In Historical Narrative&quot; (Japanese only)
Speaker: Tsubaki Reiko (Assistant Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Date: 19:00 -20:30 Friday, 9 March 2012
Venue: Mori Art Museum
Capacity: 80 (bookings required)
Admission: Free (exhibition ticket required)]]></Description>
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  <Karma>12.7155</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults ¥1500, University and High School Students ¥1000, Children (from 4-year-olds to Junior High School Students) ¥500</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-04</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-27</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>March 20 (Tue) open until 22:00, March 24 (Sat) open until 6:00 the following morning due to &quot;Roppongi Art Night 2012&quot;</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>102</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.657036</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/497A" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/497A">
  <Name>Yoshinori Niwa &quot;Clapping bears in Bern&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/6B4DE589">
    <Name>NADiff a/p/a/r/t</Name>
    <Type>Shop or Department Store</Type>
    <Address>NADiff A/P/A/R/T 1F 1-18-4 Ebisu Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013</Address>
    <Phone>03-3446-4977</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3446-4978</Fax>
    <Access>6 minutes walk from the East exit of JR Ebisu Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Note:On a Public Holiday Monday, the gallery and the shop is open but closed on the following Tuesday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Introduces the artist's project from the Swiss city of Bern and its bears.

[Images: Yoshinori Niwa &quot;Sketch for the project Clapping bears in Bern&quot;]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>13.5961</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-09</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-10" start="18:00:00" end="">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.6443</Latitude>
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  <Name>Ken Matsubara &quot;The Sleeping Water&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/7F29559C">
    <Name>MA2 Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>3-3-8 Ebisu, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013</Address>
    <Phone>03-3444-1133</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3444-1135</Fax>
    <Access>10 minutes walk from East Exit of JR Ebisu Station, or Hiroo Station on the Hibiya Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>19:00-20:00 by appointment</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Ken Matsubara dissolves our sleeping memories just like they are frozen at the bottom of our hearts in his works made of antique objects, photographs and movies which are imprinted with people's memories. He thinks that memories are inherited from human to human through the DNA of microorganisms and that people can reach those common memories that cross over the world's various races and generations if we can awaken our own memories. Human beings are tied together by common memories and we will cross over those boundaries by sharing our memories.

&quot;Mekong Delta&quot;
The movie for this work was shot at the Mekong River delta in Vietnam. 5 children are floating in the muddy river just like they are rising up to heaven. They are visible through an original, specially crafted, translucent mirror, a glass dome. This work is dedicated to and mourns for the death of children in the many wars and disasters around the world.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>22.8067</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-03</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>18</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.64185</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.722169</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5BB6" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/5BB6">
  <Name>Yebisu International Festival for Art &amp; Alternative Visions 2012 &quot;How Physical&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/B6131856">
    <Name>Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Yebisu Garden Place, 1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku, 153-0062 Tokyo</Address>
    <Phone>03-3280-0099</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3280-0033</Fax>
    <Access>7 minutes walk from East Exit at JR Ebisu Station</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>10:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>thursdays closinghour 20:00, fridays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[From the start, each year the Yebisu International Festival for Art &amp; Alternative Visions has posed the question, “What is an image?” and chosen a theme that suggests an answer to this question. It was, however, no easy task to think about an appropriate theme or envision the shape that this year’s festival might take less than a year since Japan was shaken to its roots by the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Tohoku region in northeast Japan. Confronted with images of such overwhelming power, images that exposed the fragility of the foundations on which images are built, it came to us at last that there was really only one choice, to make our theme the physicality of images. In retrospect it seems so obvious, in times like these we had to start over again with this most simple and basic of questions. It would, at the same time direct our eyes once again to the complex and diverse possibilities inherent in images.

The theme of the fourth Yebisu International Festival for Art &amp; Alternative Visions is, then, “How Physical”. To illuminate the physicality of images, we begin with their practical aspect, then, through the works we present, press on into the riches and depth that images offer. Before we raise questions about the themes and cultural significance of images, asking what images show us or why these particular images were taken, we turn first to the technologies, the skills, the tools, the activities, the means of distribution that make images possible. At the same time, we recognize the presence in images of times and spaces that only exist as images and the power of images to affect us viscerally. Our aim is to savor deeply forms of creative expression in which the distinctive physicality of images is brought to life. We also see this as an opportunity to reconsider the issues of the day not abstractly, but concretely by considering the physical processes, equipment, technologies and economic environment in which images are captured, preserved and passed down to us.

The Yebisu International Festival for Art &amp; Alternative Visions takes full advantage of the space in which it is held to provide an opportunity for those who create, connect, and receive images to come together to enjoy the works on display and examine from many angles the physical aspects of images past and present. We hope that it becomes for everyone involved a comprehensive and future-oriented celebration of the “physical making” involved in imaging and visual creative expression.

Venues: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Central Square, Yebisu Garden Place; The Garden Room; and more…]]></Description>
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  <Price free="0">Free (*charge applies for certain screenings and events)</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed on Monday</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/5BD6" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/5BD6">
  <Name>Nobuhiro Shimura &quot;Ebisu Lantern Festival Dress&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/23A60FA6">
    <Name>Traumaris 'Space'</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>NADiff A/P/A/R/T 3F 1-18-4 Ebisu Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013</Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>6 minutes walk from the East exit of JR Ebisu Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>16:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>24:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Depends on each event.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[As part of the  Yebisu International Festival for Art &amp; Alternative Visions, this event will see the NADiff building transformed by installations and video screenings in the entrance and on the roof terrace.

Outdoor rooftop terrace screenings: February 10, February 12, February 19, February 26, March 4, March 11]]></Description>
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  <Karma>24.5833</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>14:00-22:00 on Sundays</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>25</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.6443</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.717486</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/6357" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/6357">
  <Name>&quot;Internet Art Future: Reality in Post Internet Era&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/08BF3F48">
    <Name>NTT ICC Inter Communication Center</Name>
    <Type>Museum</Type>
    <Address>Tokyo Opera City Tower 4F, 3-20-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1404 Japan</Address>
    <Phone>0120-144199</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>2 minutes walk from the East Exit at Hatsudai Station on the Keio New Line</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>18:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>On a Public Holiday Monday, the ICC is open, but closed the following Tuesday.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[In the early 1990s, commercial services were first made available in the Japanese realms of the Internet. The subsequent development of broadband connections, and the popularization of so-called smartphones and other pocket-sized terminals paved the way for 24/7 Internet layering of reality and information that takes place here, one may describe the present situation as a constant back-and-forth between real environments and the virtual world of the Internet.

The Internet enables us to figure out what relatives, friends and acquaintances, and eventually even unknown and unseen people in other parts of the world are doing right now. The background of this is defined by data of individual Internet users recording/discribing themselves and their habits. The community of Facebook users has grown to global scale, and it is said that approximately one million images and about two hundred million messages are posted every day on Flickr and Twitter respectively. These numbers alone are so large that a human lifetime is not enough to view them all.

Such data is being openly modified, processed and reconfigured as necessary through the respective services' application programming interfaces (API). The frequent trade of data between different services reflects a reinforcement of mutual connections, and in the present day the Internet itself is definitely penetrating our conscious mind as a medium that mirrors everyday life. Quite certainly, this is where new, different kinds of realities, textures, modes of communication, and ideas of human life are being generated.

Focusing on “post Internet” art originating in present-day network environments generated in a world in which the Internet has become an everyday matter, and reality is being subsumed in the world of information, this exhibition examines previous examples of artistic work, and attempts to offer a preview of future developments of the Internet in connection with art.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>56.9925</Karma>
  <Price free="0">Adults and University Students ¥500, Free for High School Students and younger</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-28</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>32</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.679581</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/66E3" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/66E3">
  <Name>Kwan Sheung Chi &quot;Collected Works&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/E610C8D2">
    <Name>Yuka Tsuruno</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1-30-9 Sekiguchi, Bunkyoku, Tokyo 112-0014</Address>
    <Phone>03-5272-2476</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5272-2476</Fax>
    <Access>7 minutes walk from Waseda Station on the Toden-Arakawa line, 7 minutes walk from exit 1a at Edogawabashi Station on the Yurakucho line, 8 minutes walk from exit 3a at Waseda Station on the Tozai line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="shinjuku">Shinjuku</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Kwan Sheung Chi (born in 1980) attracted attention for &quot;Teapoy&quot;, the artwork made by Kwan according to his mother's memory and which visualizes family history and human relationships, included in the &quot;Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition 2005&quot; (Hong Kong Art Museum). The videos he has been working intensively on in recent years have brought him to international attention, and have been invited to many international exhibitions, such as &quot;Videozone V&quot; (Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2010), and &quot;Homemade video from Hong Kong&quot; (National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia, Arad Art Museum, Romania, 2011).

The common theme in his video works is an on-going wrestle with the duality of success and failure, and achievement and defeat. For example, &quot;Drinking a glass of hot chocolate with a folk&quot; is a record of Kwan drinking a full glass of hot chocolate using a fork. In &quot;Left vs. Right&quot;, he counts a winning rate of &quot;Rock, paper, scissors&quot; using his left hand vs. right hand. Through his work that is seemingly not advancing, we are invited to be witnesses of a life and and to come up with exit strategies out of our dualistic mind-set. The &quot;ONE MILLION (Japanese Yen)&quot;, a new video work made for this exhibition, counts a handful of bills until one million by repeating the video in the post-production process, expressing an ironic perspective on the principle of a monetary system and money game, the economic activity without reality.

The name of the show is &quot;Collected Works&quot;, including different works in addition to video, like a book which contains different works of an author. The &quot;Apple Core&quot; is a pack of apple juice. In a supermarket it is a drink, a consumer product; putting it in a gallery, people might think about how do we consume, what we're actually consuming. &quot;Lilies&quot; is a seemingly a bunch of lilies in a vase, but actually a collection of artificial lilies if you take a close look. Each branch is different from each other. Each factory making artificial lilies has its own concept, an ideal form of what the lily is and how it should be. The lilly collections are looking towards a common objective but none of them are the same; they all look different, they are all fake.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>2.73619</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-31</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed on Sundays &amp; Tuesdays</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-25" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>45</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.70735</Latitude>
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  <Name>&quot;Ryugu is Over!!&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/4571494B">
    <Name>Ryugu Bijutsu Ryokan</Name>
    <Type>Event Space</Type>
    <Address>1-53-2 Nakaku Hinodecho, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa </Address>
    <Phone></Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>1 minute walk from Hinodecho Station on the Keikyu line, 4 minutes walk from the North exit of Isezaki-Choja Station on the Yokohama City Blue line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="kanagawa">Yokohama, Kanagawa</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>21:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Depends on each event.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[The Ryugu Ryokan, a 60 year old traditional Japanese inn, will close in March as a result of the cleanup and regeneration of the Koganecho area in Yokohama. As a last cry, 14 artists will use the entire premises to stage a final exhibition.

See website for more details on related events and performances.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>7.23415</Karma>
  <Price free="0">¥500, free entry throughout exhibition period</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-18</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Open Friday through Monday 13:00-21:00</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-18" start="19:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>32</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.441884</Latitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/8A38" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/8A38">
  <Name>Maki Toshima &quot;Meta.Morphos&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/554A91EC">
    <Name>MEM</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>NADiff A/P/A/R/T 2F 1-18-4 Ebisu Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013</Address>
    <Phone>03-6459-3205</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>6 minutes walk from the East exit of JR Ebisu Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[New video works by genre-crossing artist who won the Grand Prix at the Kobe Biennale International Competition.

[Image: Maki Toshima, &quot;the breath below 0℃&quot; (2010) photo by Kenji KAIDO, Courtesy of MEM INC.]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>19.5652</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.6443</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.717486</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/9747" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/9747">
  <Name>Taro Chiezo Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/49786FC5">
    <Name>Magic Room???</Name>
    <Type>Cafe or Bar</Type>
    <Address>NADiff A/P/A/R/T 4F 1-18-4 Ebisu Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013</Address>
    <Phone>03-6408-9255</Phone>
    <Fax>03-6408-9256</Fax>
    <Access>6 minutes walk from the East exit of JR Ebisu Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>14:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>00:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="1" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Depends on each event</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Features a new video work by the artist, a homage to a Nineteen Twenties Berlin Dada film.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>22.5</Karma>
  <Price free="0">one drink order needed</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Exhibition Hours: 14:00-19:00</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.6443</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.717486</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/A5B2" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/A5B2">
  <Name>Taisuke Koyama Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/5F034758">
    <Name>G/P Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>NADiff A/P/A/R/T 2F 1-18-4 Ebisu Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013</Address>
    <Phone>03-5422-9331</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5422-9331</Fax>
    <Access>6 minutes walk from the East exit of JR Ebisu Station.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Depends on each event.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Photographer Taisuke Koyama is known for his photography works with abstract expressions. As recent digital cameras typically also contain a video function, the distinction between still images and moving ones is becoming more vague. In this exhibition, G/P gallery will present Koyama’s video work, which is an attempt to expand the boundaries of photography.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>36.4286</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-10</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed on Monday</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.6443</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.717486</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/B690" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/B690">
  <Name>&quot;Eizo Masatsu&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/BE52BA24">
    <Name>Tokio Out of Place</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Azabu Ono Bldg. 3F, 4-14-2 Minami-azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0047</Address>
    <Phone>03-5422-9699</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>8 minutes walk from exit 2 at Hiroo Station on the Hibiya line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="akasaka_roppongi">Roppongi, Akasaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="1" wed="1" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Features two artists' interpretations of themes of the physical body or the non-physical physics.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>4.81482</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-17</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-11</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>25</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.643289</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.728025</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C342" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/C342">
  <Name>Ami Clarke &quot;Be Seeing You&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/873C9909">
    <Name>The Container</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>Hills Daikanyama 1F, 1-8-30 Kamimeguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0051</Address>
    <Phone>03-3770-7750</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>4 minutes walk from Nakameguro Station on the Tokyu Toyoko line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ebisu_nakame_daikan">Nakameguro, Ebisu</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>21:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>10:00 to 20:00 Saturday, Sunday and holiday</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>Screen: Film</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Talk</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Ami Clarke is an artist whose practice often involves working with appropriated material. During extensive periods of research she responds to the material she finds mindful of the contributory factors of where and how the material she is drawn to is found.

Treating the collection of appropriated footage in a way more akin to a research project, the film: &quot;Be Seeing You&quot; explores the multiple perspectives afforded by film technology, and touches on relations between the audience and projected image.

The immersive environment creates a visual equivalent of certain kinds of auditory stimulation, an aural world, as M. McLuhan noted &quot;the ear favours no particular &quot;point of view&quot;... &quot;we are all enveloped by sound&quot;.

The emphasis on an experiential encounter with video that speaks perhaps of an authentic physiological experience whilst viewing, is complicated by the slippage that occurs between audio and visual affects, and the relentlessly hypnotic affect of the pulsing light.

The humour in the repeated 'takes', suggests a multitude of possibilities.

&quot;Humour as a system of communications and as a problem of our environment - of what’s really going on ... does not deal in theory, but in immediate experience, and is often the best guide to changing perceptions. Older societies thrived on purely literary plots. They demanded story lines. Today’s humour, on the contrary, has no story line - no sequence. It is usually a compressed overlay of stories.&quot;

In a separate work she considers Julian Assange’s comments in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, where the affect of data/news being deleted from the internet, without anyone really noticing it has happened, is described as 'un-publishing'. In this way what was understood, briefly, as 'news', simply disappears.

The publication takes the premise of 'unaccountability' relating to the data stream found in this way on the internet, and more generally, the way in which there can be little certainty re data management, with the advent of digital media, to exact a broad license with the content material in her own artists publication, a 16-page text and visual work, free to take away from the exhibition.

Assange mentions that perhaps it is less difficult in the traditional print media of newspapers, to vanish away such unwanted news, as its material form will potentially still exist with a broad distribution of the paper.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>6.85562</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-23</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-04-09</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-23" start="19:30:00" end="21:30:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>54</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.6429</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.703264</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/C365" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/C365">
  <Name>&quot;Tama Art University Media Art Festival: Misconversion&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/FC0040F7">
    <Name>Akibatamabi 21</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>6-11-14-201/202 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0021</Address>
    <Phone>03-5812-4558</Phone>
    <Fax>03-5812-4558</Fax>
    <Access>1 minute walk from exit 4 at Suehirocho Station on the Ginza line, 8 minutes walk from Akihabara JR Station on the Yamanote line, 3 minutes walk from Yushima Station on the Chiyoda line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="ueno_yanaka">Ueno, Yanaka</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="1" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails>fridays closinghour 20:00, saturdays closinghour 20:00</ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[This exhibition explores the role of media as &quot;converter&quot;, catalyzing various experiences in the viewer, and the &quot;misconversions&quot; that constitute artistic creativity. On display are films, videos and interactive works by young talents making daring explorations in the wide-ranging field of media art.]]></Description>
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  <Karma>7.36677</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-15</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-04</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-18" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>18</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.701</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.774005</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/CA70" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/CA70">
  <Name>“Cosmic Travelers - Toward the Unknown” Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/D5301380">
    <Name>Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>7F, 5-7-5 Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0001</Address>
    <Phone>03-5766-1094</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>4 minutes walk from Exit A1 at Omotesando Station on the Ginza, Chiyoda and Hanzomon lines.</Access>
    <Area areaId="aoyama_omotesando">Omotesando, Aoyama</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Irregular holidays</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Drawing</Media>
  <Media>3D: Sculpture</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Media Arts</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Performance Art</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[For its third exhibition, Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo presents its first group show entitled “Cosmic Travelers – Toward the Unknown”. This is also its first show dedicated to Japanese contemporary scene and attests its desire to acknowledge the long-standing relationship between Louis Vuitton and Japan. Within an artistic and institutional landscape paying an increasing attention to young artists, Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo wishes to present a dissonant but complementary point of view. Around the historically grounded figure of Noriyuki Haraguchi, who firmly embodies the links between Western and Japanese avant-gardes, Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo will present artists from two different generations, representing various trends and media.

The word “cosmic” means many things. While the most universal meaning for the word relates to our universe referencing outer space, its connotations are manifold; it can mean limitlessness, infinity, liberal and unifying. As a metaphor, “cosmic” is a state of being with expansive associations, and when combined with the word “travelers,” it becomes a journey of the mind and body involving the senses, intuition, emotions and thoughts. It is in this sense that we are all cosmic travelers moving through space and time searching for truth and the meaning of life.

The five artists selected for the exhibition - Noriyuki Haraguchi, Ataru Sato, Tomoko Shioyasu, Masakatsu Takagi and Go Watanabe - are all forerunners in exploring the multitudes of cosmic aspects in their creative processes. In conceiving new works for the light filled space of Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo, the artists have inevitably incorporated this predominant feature into their works, but each on their own terms. Just as light is the source of all life and the underlining principal for creation, so too, here, it is the unifying element between the artworks presented.

Haraguchi is known for his use of discarded or no-longer functional industrial materials to make simple geometrical structures that reveal a hidden relationship between space and materials in a way that challenges our perception of reality. He has created site-specific works since the Seventies, and for this exhibition, he presents “Triad”, which consists of the three deeply related pieces including an aluminum container with a black liquid filled to the rim. The lacquer-like surface reflects the surrounding space with stunning clarity paradoxically disclosing its overwhelming solidity as an illusion. Interacting with the immense structure of the space, where the polarities of light and shadow are unified, this work transforms the space into a charged field of exquisitely balanced and composed forms.

Sato sensed sacredness from the exhibition space where the abundant natural light continuously streams through the glasses, and he created a portrait of a god entitled “Sign”. His provocative and diabolic visions are composed of convoluted amalgamations of deformed, fragmented body parts, internal organs and bodies cut wide open, unknown creatures, faces of people, animals and bugs. What might be called “trans-surrealistic, micro-maniac” portrait invites us past the surface into the vast stretches of a deep mysterious world within. Sato will also create his work with the universe as its theme in a live performance over several sessions.

Shioyasu makes exquisitely detailed paper-cuttings that transform the traditional decorative medium of Kiri-e into a dynamic harmony of patterns emulating natural elements such as water droplets, bubbles and cells. A large piece of paper work, eight meters in length and two meters in width, floats in the exhibition space just as its title “Flowing Sky” refers. Her other piece, “Bubbles”, a three-dimensional collage of round shapes made with pierced holes in synthetic paper, floats freely in an acrylic case. Astoundingly subtle interplays of light and shadow literally create and quietly amplify, through intricately cut patterns, a sense of harmony and interconnectedness between the visible and the invisible.

Watanabe creates new worlds in landscapes with animated surfaces. He crafts images with a variety of digital techniques, taking everyday objects from interior spaces as well as landscapes for his motifs, paring them down to their essential components and giving autonomy and freedom of movement to their surfaces. For this exhibition, he presents “one landscape, a journey”, an animated landscape composed of everyday cups and bowls stacked in a kitchen sink that is based on the panoramic landscape seen through the glass walls of the exhibition space. Suggesting a world in constant motion, Watanabe’s work reveals the origins of the word animation, the imparting of anima or soul to inorganic objects. The way he gives motion to the objects encourages us to consider the possibility of another dimension of reality in which all things are alive and conscious.

Multi-media artist Takagi’s work offers multi-dimensional adventures in virtual dreamscape through free association. It is a “moving painting” that brings forth a delightful feeling of riding on the oceanic waves of constantly changing color and form. For this exhibition, Takagi presents a visionary landscape that simulates the energy and radiance of the sun in which elements of fluid color and form merge and coalesce to form a larger whole, eventually creating a symphony of energy that transforms our inner vision.

All five of these artists are Cosmic Travelers in every possible sense of the term as the configuration of the exhibition mimics the vortex of cosmic energy already moving within the space. Walking through this exhibition literally becomes a journey from the darkness into the light offering a dynamic rhythm to the overall experience, in which visitors will be provided different traveling experiences every time they visit the exhibition.

Curator: Midori Nishizawa

[Image: ©Louis Vuitton / Jérémie Souteyrat, Courtesy of Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>77.7327</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-21</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-05-06</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Open everyday during exhibition period. Closed on Feb 6th.</ScheduleNote>
  <DaysBeforeEnd>81</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.663183</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.712326</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/D21E" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/D21E">
  <Name>&quot;Media Art: Flow &amp; Bright&quot; Exhibition</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/886471D5">
    <Name>Eye of Gyre</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>2F, 5-10-1 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001</Address>
    <Phone>03-3498-6990</Phone>
    <Fax></Fax>
    <Access>4 minute walk from Meijijingu Station on the Chiyoda Line.</Access>
    <Area areaId="aoyama_omotesando">Omotesando, Aoyama</Area>
    <OpeningHour>11:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>20:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="0" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="0" hol="0" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote>Depends on each event.</ScheduleNote>
  </Venue>
  <Media>2D: Graphics</Media>
  <Media>3D: Installation</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Flow: January 25th (Wed) – February 7th (Tue)
Bright: February 10th (Fri) - 26th (Sun)

This exhibition focuses on works by award-winning Japanese artists from the Japan Media Arts festival that fuse art and technology in dynamic ways.

[Image: Motoshi Chikamori PulaPula Kyoko Kunou &quot;Tool's Life&quot; ©plaplax]]]></Description>
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  <Karma>52.0155</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-01-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-02-26</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote>Closed February 8th, 9th, 20th</ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-01-25" start="19:00:00" end="21:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>11</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.664189</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.710114</Longitude>
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 <Event xml:lang="en" id="2012/EB0E" href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2012/EB0E">
  <Name>Marijke van Warmerdam &quot;Haru&quot;</Name>
  <Venue href="http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/venue/DD74E81F">
    <Name>Taka Ishii Gallery</Name>
    <Type>Gallery</Type>
    <Address>1-3-2-5F Kiyosumi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0024</Address>
    <Phone>03-5646-6050</Phone>
    <Fax>03-3642-3067</Fax>
    <Access>7 minutes walk from Exit A3 at Kiyosumi Shirakawa Station on the Hanzomon and Oedo Lines; 9 minutes walk from Exit 2 at Suitengumae Station on the Hanzomon Line</Access>
    <Area areaId="koto_odaiba">Kiyosumi, Odaiba</Area>
    <OpeningHour>12:00:00</OpeningHour>
    <ClosingHour>19:00:00</ClosingHour>
    <DaysClosed mon="1" tue="0" wed="0" thu="0" fri="0" sat="0" sun="1" hol="1" />
    <ScheduleDetails></ScheduleDetails>
    <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
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  <Media>2D: Painting</Media>
  <Media>Screen: Video installation</Media>
  <Media>Misc.: Art Party</Media>
  <Description><![CDATA[Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to announce our first exhibition with Amsterdam based Marijke van Warmerdam. Van Warmerdam is particularly well known for her film loops, which radiate a crystal clear simplicity. In her recent work “Face to face”, a group of macaws circle round a tree, which appears to exert a strong force of attraction on the birds. The tree trunk has an anthropoid face. Could that be the reason for all the excitement? One might believe it is, particularly when one of the macaws goes and sits on the ‘chin’ of the tree and looks straight into the tree trunk’s eyes. But is it true?

Besides this film loop Van Warmerdam will present a series of paintings based upon film stills printed on canvas. Her film loops are characterized by visual reduction, velocity, repetition and simplicity, and these characteristic elements can also be found in these paintings.

In her film stills on canvas one can see sprigs moving so fast that the flowers have become mere streaks, almost as if someone picked up a brush and smeared the blossoms. And why not reproduce by the painter’s hand that frozen moment in film and grab a brush or a piece of wood and get to work? And so the artist began to make a reverse painting with a bucket and broom of what was already present; a frozen moment. ]]></Description>
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  <Karma>3.24049</Karma>
  <Price free="1">Free</Price>
  <DateStart>2012-02-25</DateStart>
  <DateEnd>2012-03-24</DateEnd>
  <ScheduleNote></ScheduleNote>
 <Party type="1" date="2012-02-25" start="18:00:00" end="20:00:00">Opening Reception</Party>
 <DaysBeforeEnd>38</DaysBeforeEnd>
  <PermanentEvent>0</PermanentEvent>
  <Distance>0</Distance>
  <Datum>tokyo</Datum>
  <Latitude>35.678167</Latitude>
  <Longitude>139.796506</Longitude>
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