Yusuke KIMURA
Yusuke KIMURA is a cross-genre artist, who mainly works in theater, dance, and performance, but also produces installation works. Over the years, he has researched the history and technology of film and developed media performances. He found his unique projection technique “Boxless Camera Obscura.” He creates works with the underlying theme of "subversion of the boundary of the self." He has also been working as an installer of contemporary art since 2017.
He studied contemporary theater, dance, and performance with Shogo Ota, Setsuko Yamada, and Tadasu Takamine at Kyoto University of Art and Design (BA), and studied media arts and programing with Masahiro Kobayashi and Yasuhiko Ando at Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS / MA) in Japan. He moved to Berlin in 2012 and studied with Rhys Martin, Sophia New, and Boyan Manchev at MA Solo/Dance/Authorship (MA SODA) in Hochschulübergreifende Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT Berlin) . Returned to Japan in 2016. He also presents works in the performance group "gallop", which collaborates with three other artists.
The director of the arts company "&Co." and the co-director of the performance group "gallop."
The director of the arts company "&Co." and the co-director of the performance group "gallop."
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1985
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Born in Osaka, Japan
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2004 - 2008
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Performing Arts Course, Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Kyoto University of Art and Design
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2008
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Found the performance group "gallop" with three other artists and granted the President's Award of Kyoto University of Art and Design for the graduation work “The Fastest Running Form of Houses”
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2008 - 2009
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Working for NPO GEKKEN as a theater administrator
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2010 - 2012
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MA Media Creation, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS)
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2010
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Granted Acquisition of Gifu Prefecture Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences Special Award
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2013 - 2015
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MA Solo/Dance/Authorship (MA SODA), Hochschulübergreifende Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT Berlin) in Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK Berlin)
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| 2021 |
The long-term project "The Art of Offending" has started. The start-up research project " The Art of Offending - Regarding Desired Forms of Expression of Anger and Hatred" was selected as a research-supported program in 2021 by the Kyoto University of Arts and Design, Kyoto Performing Arts Center, which is recognized by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as a "cross-disciplinary and practical research center for the creation and reception of performing arts works." |
| 2022 | Found the arts company "&Co." |
SELECTED WORKS
| 2021 |
gallop "Great Thanksgivings Day" (Performance) Kyoto, Japan
Composition, Co-General-Direction, Performance
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| 2020 |
gallop "DOUBLEPLUS GOODFUL UNGOOD" (Performance) Kyoto and Yokohama, Japan
Co-Direction, Performance
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| 2019 |
Samuel Beckett's "Not I" (Play) Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan
Japanese translation, Direction
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gallop “Diving Stones, Floating Corps” (Performance) Kyoto, Japan
Co-Direction, Performance
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| 2017 |
gallop “Utopia” (Performance) Kyoto, Japan
Co-Direction, Performance
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| 2016 |
Samuel Beckett's "Not I" (Play) Kyoto, Japan
Japanese translation, Direction
Supported by atelier Gekken
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| 2014 |
“I saw a shadow in the dark” (Media performance) Berlin, Germany
Concept, Direction, Multimedia Design, Performance
Participating "SODA WORKS 2014" at HZT Berlin
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“I saw a shadow in the dark – An Archaeology of Film” (Lecture performance) Berlin, Germany
Concept, Direction, Multimedia Design, Performance
Participating "MA Solo/Dance/Authorship (SODA) 3rd Semester Research Presentations" at HZT Berlin
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“body-Sampling-body” (Media performance) Dusseldorf, Germany
Concept, Direction, Multimedia Design, Performance
Participating "Nippon Performance Night" at FFT Düsseldorf
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“The Way to Fukushima #2” (Installation) Berlin, Germaney
Participating the exhibition “Distant Observation. Fukushima in Berlin” at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
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| 2013 |
“The Way to Fukushima” (Installation) Berlin, Germaney
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| 2012 |
“I know nothing beyond this” (Installation) Gifu, Japan
Participating IAMAS 2012
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| 2011 |
“body-Sampling-body” (Media performance) Gifu, Japan
Concept, Direction, Multimedia Design, Performance
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"Narragonia, Narragonia" (Installation) Gifu, Japan
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“double fact” (Video Installation) Gifu, Japan
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| 2010 |
“double fact” (Dance) Yokohama, Japan
Concept, Choreography, Direction, Performance
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"Narragonia, Narragonia" (Performance) Gifu, Japan
Concept, Direction
Participating Ogaki Biennale 2010
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"double fact" (Dance) Gifu, Japan
Concept, Choreography, Direction
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| 2009 |
“b(r/l)ight” (Dance) Kyoto, Japan
Concept, Choreography, Video
Created and Showed on a Workshop of Naoto Iina
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chatty+gallop “Toward the Firm Hungriness” (Dance & Performance) Kyoto, Japan
Co-Concept, Co-Direction, Performance
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| 2008 |
gallop “The Fastest Running Form of Houses” (Performance / Graduation work) Kyoto, Japan
Co-Concept, Co-Direction, Performance
Granted the President's Award of Kyoto University of Art and Design
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| 2006 |
aspicio “Les Viaducs de la Seine et Oise” (Play) Kyoto, Japan
Direction
Text / Marguerite Duras
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aspicio “Ka-Mu-Sa-A-N-Ki ver.2” (Theater performance) Kyoto, Japan
Concept, Direction, Performance
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| 2005 |
aspicio “Ka-Mu-Sa-A-N-Ki” (Theater performance) Kyoto, Japan
Concept, Direction
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SELECTED PARTICIPATING PROJECTS & WORKS
| 2015- |
Works with Choy Ka Fai Web
"The Choreography of Things" Video, Berlin 2015, Dusseldorf 2016
"CORTEX: DANCE CLINIC" Video, Dusseldorf 2016
"DANCE CLINIC" Video, Dusseldorf, Singapore 2017
"UnBearable Darkness" (Work-in-progress) Video, Yokohama 2018
As a dancer, Interactive Program Designer and so on. |
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2010 - 2012
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"NxPC.Lab -Next dimension Plural media Club experience. Laboratory-" (Club event) Web
Gifu, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan
As a drag queen (aka. Kathy) and project member
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2006 - 2009
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“KINOSHITA・KABUKI” (Theater company) Web
Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan
In charge of the project-concept, production-management
Supervised by Yuichi Kinoshita
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2008 - 2009
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“GEKKEN Summer Festival” (Play for children) at atelier GEKKEN, Kyoto, Japan
In charge of the production-management
Directed by Yuriko Maiya, Produced by NPO GEKKEN
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2006
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“The Bridge Project” (Film), Kyoto, Japan
As a performancer
Directed by Richard Foreman, Produced by Kyoto Performing Arts Center
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