Yusuke KIMURA
A multidisciplinary artist working primarily in the performing arts. Exploring the history and structure of subjects, media and forms of expression, he presents works with the underlying theme of 'subverting the boundaries between self and other'.
He studied contemporary theatre, dance, performance and experimental film with Shogo Ota, Setsuko Yamada, Tadasu Takamine and Takashi Ito at Kyoto University of Art and Design (BA). He also studied media arts and programming with Masahiro Kobayashi and Yasuhiko Ando at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS / MA). He moved to Berlin in 2012 and studied with Rhys Martin, Sophia New and Boyan Manchev at the MA Solo/Dance/Authorship (MA SODA) at the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT Berlin) and returned to Japan in 2016.
From 2021 he has been working on a long-term project The Art of Offending. He also collaborates with three other artists in the performance group 'gallop'. He is the director of the art company '&Co.' and one of the co-directors of '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 was 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. |
| 2022 | Found the arts company &Co. |
SELECTED WORKS
| 2023 |
gallop
The long-term documentary project: An Encouragement of Being a Party Member Chapter 2 Ubiquitous Grenade Performance / Kyoto, Japan Co-Direction, Performance
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&Co. The Art of Offending 03
Arika Kasatsuji's New Piece The Birth Cry Theatre / Tokyo, Japan Direction
Text / Arika Kasatsuji (Tsuji Kikaku) |
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| 2022 |
&Co.
The Art of Offending 02 Oh days, the darkness that loveless blinds see Theatre / Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan
Direction
Text: Poems of the Field: 1955～1988: Collected Works by Gim Sijong |
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gallop
The long-term documentary project: An Encouragement of Being a Party Member Chapter 1
Racquetball Performance / Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan Co-Direction, Performance
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| 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 |
Not I
Theatre / Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan Japanese translation, Direction
Written by Samuel Beckett |
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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 |
Not I
Theatre / Kyoto, Japan Japanese translation, Direction
Written by Samuel Beckett 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 in "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 in "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 in "Nippon Performance Night" at FFT Düsseldorf
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The Way to Fukushima #2
Installation / Berlin, Germany Participating in the exhibition “Distant Observation. Fukushima in Berlin” at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
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| 2013 |
The Way to Fukushima
Installation / Berlin, Germany |
| 2012 |
I know nothing beyond this
Installation / Gifu, Japan Participating in "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 in "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 in 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 Theatre / Kyoto, Japan
Direction
Written by Marguerite Duras
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aspicio
Ka-Mu-Sa-A-N-Ki ver.2 Theatre / Kyoto, Japan Concept, Direction, Performance
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| 2005 |
aspicio
Ka-Mu-Sa-A-N-Ki Theatre / Kyoto, Japan Concept, Direction
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SELECTED PARTICIPATING PROJECTS & WORKS
| 2022 | |
| 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 the Pacific) and project member
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2006 - 2009
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KINOSHITA・KABUKI (Theatre 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 (Theatre 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 (The project of filming for theatre), Kyoto, Japan
As a performer
Directed by Richard Foreman, Produced by Kyoto Performing Arts Center
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