FIXTURES #7 – Yasuto Yura / VIDEO PARTY on September 22th, 2025
22.09.2025 | Admissions: 6.30pm | Start: 7pm | in the Media Lab
Adress: Mariannenplatz 2 | Entry at the side entrance: Marielle-Franco-Platz,
10997 Berlin
(https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7028860678#map=19/52.503419/13.423672)
This event will be held in Japanese and kindly translated from the artist Yoko Hata into German.
It is part of the Program Strategic Autumn of Solidarity in the Visual Arts 2025 of the Bildungswerk des bbk berlin. Information here.
We are delighted to welcome our Japanese guest, Professor Yasuto Yura, to FIXTURES #7 – Jour Fixe at the Media Workshop in September. He will present his artistic work, his project VIDEO PARTY and show us some interesting videos by other Japanese artists and himself.
Already in 2023, “Finally a bit of Animation” and just recently in Kyoto: VIDEO PARTY 11 in August 2025, there had been several collaborations between Mr. Yura and the Media Workshop at kulturwerk bbk berlin, enabling joint screenings of Japanese and German videos. The initiators and organizers were Mr. Yura, Yoko Hata, Lioba von den Driesch and the Media Workshop team.
Now there is finally a chance to meet in person and get to know each other even better.
VIDEO PARTY began in 2013 as an open call exhibition with no screening process. Although the genre of videos as an expression has a wide range of possibilities, opportunities to present it are limited.
Many artists are dissatisfied with online presentations and seek face-to-face interaction with audiences. They also seek new encounters beyond AI-generated suggestions based on personal preferences.
There are numerous artists and works I am unfamiliar with. I look forward to the new opportunities that may arise from such encounters. VIDEO PARTY was launched to address these needs.
I also hope that such a platform will encourage artists who have drifted away from creating works to return to the creative process. [English Text: Yasuto Yura]
VIDEO PARTY WEBSITE
Yasuto Yura is a Video artist. Creates works using live-action, CG, and animation. He has participated in numerous film festivals and exhibitions in Japan and abroad, including the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival and the European Media Art Festival. In recent years, in addition to creating works, he has also organized VIDEO PARTY as a venue for presenting publicly solicited video works. He also holds screenings and artist exchanges in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States.
Until 2022, the video works were also shown at the Lumen gallery, where he was involved in planning and management. In addition, he provides technical support for the activities of Matsuo Ohno, Japan's first sound designer, known for his work on Astro Boy.
Yasuto Yura, is currently a professor at Osaka Electro-Communication University, at the "Department of Games and Media".
[English Text from: Yasuto Yura, slithly modified from Media Workshop]
The FIXTURES event on September 22, 2025, was a complete success. We would like to thank Yasuto Yura very much for his coming and giving such an inspiring talk, and we look forward to further encounters with him and future exchange projects between Kyoto and Berlin.
The presented short films were by the artists Yasuto Yura, Yuya Miki, Kurumi Goan and Shogo Hara.
"A first sketch for 'Duras by the Katsura River' ”
Yuya MIKI | 07:30 | Short Film | 2025
The Katsura River, which flows through Kyoto City, opens up to Asia when the water level rises.It somehow overlapped with the landscape of French Indochina depicted by Marguerite Duras. A woman and a child wandering the boundary. The first rough cut of the video topography.
Follow the Hill
Kurumi GOAN | 07:16 | Animation | 2025
“Sakanome" is a work that depicts the route I used to take to school and the sensations I had while walking along the slopes there. I created this work based on the scene I was seeing, and explored the “interwebs” of this hazy sensation from various angles.
Born in the Waves
Shogo HARA | 11:31 | Animation | 2025
We were born with too little life as individuals in the great wave of the times. A boy finds a sea turtle in the middle of a struggle and decides to return it to the sea.
Case
Yasuto YURA | 9:22 | Experimental | 1994
Nothing is as vague as memory. I think it is precisely because it is vague that we record it. The most popular form of recording is photography, but I created this work because I thought that relying too much on photographs might be making our memories even more vague.