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Tue—Sat (13:00—18:00) | Sat. 18th March (11:00—16:00)

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Bildraum 07
Burggasse 7-9, 1070 Wien, Austria

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Admission:Free

1. Pray, Shinjuko
2. In This Corner of the World (konosekai no katasumi ni), KOUNO Fumiyo
3. Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms, KOUNO Fumiyo
4. KiyaKiya, KONDOH Akino
5. Yukisusumisariyuki, KWGT
6. 2.5D Mask, KWGT / IWABUCHI Maki / MIYAZAKI Mari
7. Futon, MIZUSHIRI Yoriko
8. YAMASUKI YAMAZAKI, Shishi YAMAZAKI

Organizer: Japan Media Arts Festival / Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Co-organizer: tricky women 2017
Cooperation: Gallery Bildraum 07
Planning Director: OKAMOTO Mitsuko

tricky women 201715 (Wednesday)—19 (Sunday) March, 2017
Venue: Metro Kinokulturhaus (Johannesgasse 4, 1010 Wien, Austria)

Themete nacious, gracious
Their forms are strong and beautiful.
This exhibition features women artists in the world of Japanese
media arts who tackle the questions of what it is to be female.
Women possess a consistent sense of self and affirm this in their
way of life, aesthetic sense and even destiny. I hope that this exhibition will impart that “tenacious, gracious” sensibility.

However much they may feel oppressed by a social ideology or
historical system, or their lives may be devastated by war or natural disaster, women do choose to live tenaciously and manage todiscover joy and entertainment within their difficult situations.
Women are as gracious as the bamboo, bending but never breaking,and in this we discover the affirmation and glory of femininity.

OKAMOTO Mitsuko

Planning Director:(Professor of Department of Animation, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Art)

KONDOH Akino [Japan]

ARAI Chie [Japan]

KUNO Yoko [Japan]

Visual artist and a Manga writer. Born in 1980 Chiba Prefecture. Lives and works in New York since 2008.
http://akinokondoh.com

Born in 1971. Associate professor, Bunka Gakuen University

Born in 1990. Animation artist and manga artist. Graduating from the Department of Graphic Design at Tama Art
University.
http://kunoyoko.tumblr.com/

KOUNO Fumiyo [Japan]

Hu Yuanyuan [China]
Born in 1986 in Nanjing, China. She completed a master’s
degree in animation at the School of Film and New Mediaat Tokyo University of the Arts in 2012.

Manga artist. Born in 1968 Hiroshima Prefecture.

KWGT [Japan]
Born in 1992 Yamanashi Prefecture. Video grapher, animation artist.
http://kwgtms.tumblr.com/

MIZUSHIRI Yoriko [Japan]
Born in Aomori, Japan in 1984. Based in Tokyo. Filmmaker.
http://www.shiripro.com

Shinjuko [Japan]
Born in 1976 Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture. Artist, Illustrator, Filmmaker, Installation artist, Performer. She handled the illustrations for the works of Gwen Stefani, thefounder of Harajuku Girls.
http://www.yan-oki.com/

Shishi YAMAZAKI [Japan]
Born in 1989 in Kanagawa Prefecture. Animation artist.
http://www.shishiyamazaki.com

Hu Yuanyuan [China]

MATSUMOTO Saki [Japan]

KABUKI Sawako [Japan]

Animator, animation director. Graduated Tokyo University of the Art, Graduate School of Film and New Media,
Department of Animation.
http://37do.main.jp

Born in 1990 in Tokyo. llustrator and animation artist.
Graduated from Tama Art University.
http://uykom.exblog.jp/

SHIRAISHI Keiko [Japan]

KOGUMA Atsuko [Japan]
Born in Tokushima Prefecture. Animation artist.
http://koguma.tv/profile/index.html

KUGENUMA Ayasa [Japan]
Born in Tokyo. llustrator. She completed a master’s degree
in animation at the School of Film and New Media at Tokyo
University of the Arts.
http://ayasacream.blogspot.jp/

Born in Tokyo, 1985. Working as freelance animation artist
and manga artist.
http://keikoshiraishi.com/

WAKAMI Arisa [Japan]
Animation Director. She made documentary animation on
and directed various animated films.
http://www.arisawakami.com/

YAMADA Naoko [Japan]
Born in Kyoto. She joined Kyoto Animation in 2004. She
directed K-ON!, K-ON!!, K-ON! Movie, Tamako Market and
The shape of voice.

Exhibition
KONDOH Akino
KiyaKiya Installation

KOUNO Fumiyo[2012 / Animated short film / 16th Animation Division Jury Selection](konosekai no katasumi ni)

In This Corner of the World
Original drawing, Replication drawing, Related materials

Town of Evening Calm, Countryof Cherry Blossoms

The title of this work, KiyaKiya, derives from an old
Japanese expression that the artist discovered in an
essay, “On Childhood Experiences,” in Tatsuhiko Shibusawa’s book Introduction to a Collection of Girls.
The expression describes a sense of “inexplicably
nostalgic anxiety” or a kind of dejavu. The film sets
out to examine this feeling. (6 min. 39 sec.)[2007-2009 / Manga / 12th Manga Division Jury Selection, 13th
Manga Division Excellence Award][2003-2004 / Manga / 8th Manga Division Grand Prize]

This work is something like a sequel to her outstanding work, Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry
Blossoms. This is the story of a family set during theSecond World War in the city of Kure, Hiroshima. The
heroine is Suzu Urano, who was born in the fishing
town in Hiroshima. She marries Shusaku Hojo, anaval officer living in the uptown area of Kure city.
Though confused by her new family, new town andnew world, she lives with a sense of certainty andintense effort.

(Yuunagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni) Replication drawing

The setting is Hiroshima in 1955. This work portrays
the reality of the A-bomb and the days thereafter,
through the eyes of a woman. It asks what the war
and the A-bomb mean to ordinary people.

©Fumiyo Kouno / Futabasha©Akino Kondoh/ Courtesy of the artist and Mizuma Art gallery

KiyaKiya_painting11 [2013 / Oil]Oil painting on canvas©Fumiyo Kouno / Futabasha

Machikado Hanadayori [1995-1996]
Pippira Note [1997-2004]
Kokko-san [1999-2001]
Nagai Michi [2001-2004]
Kappa no Neneko [2001-2002]
Sansanroku [2004-2006]
Heibon Club [2009-2010]
boorupen KOJIKI [2011-2012]
Ano Toki, Kono Hon [2007-2013]
Hi no Tori [2012-2016]

KWGT

MIZUSHIRI Yoriko

Yukisusumisariyuki Animation screening

2.5D Mask Installation

Futon Animation screening[2014 / Animated Short film]

KWGT / IWABUCHI Maki / MIYAZAKI MariThis animation is animated by the scrolling screen.
The woman walks together with the changing scene.
The spaces are fuzzy, the colours faint, and little bylittle the scenes collapse, patchily, never completely. There is no end in sight for as long as the scroll
continues but there is a sense of nostalgia and loneliness. (2 min. 01 sec.)[2014 / Website / 19th Entertainment Division Jury Selection][2012 / Animated short film / 16th Animation Division New Face
Award]

Paper craft masks that can be made by downloading
open-source patterns from the Internet and printed on a regular A4 printer. By wearing the mask,
one becomes “a nobody” or “a nobody character”,
and images of people wearing these masks can beshared publicly on the Internet. These images, which
capture the act of wearing masks that resemble animation characters, evoke a “2.5-dimensional” worldthat exists between two- and three-dimensional
space.

©2014 kwgt

You crawl inside your futon and everything — fromthe memories in your mind to thoughts of the future,recalled sensations, sexuality — all melt together
into a single pleasant feeling. In the futon, your body
wanders around in search of sensation. The soft texture of this animated work was achieved by drawing
images on paper and then incorporating them into
the picture frame via tracing paper. Futon deals withthe relationship between movement and the senses.
(6 min. 02 sec.)©MIZUSHIRI Yoriko©2014 2.5D Mask Project

Futon [2012 / Acrylic]
Ikura [2013 / Acrylic]Toe [2013 / Acrylic]
Acrylic painting on canvas

The Japan Media Arts Festival is a comprehensive festival of Media Arts (Japanese: Media Geijutsu) that honors outstanding works from a diverse range of media- from animation and comics to media art and games. The festival gives awards in each of its four divisions: Art, Entertainment, Animation, and Manga. It also
provides a platform for appreciation of the Award-winning and other notable works. Since its inception in 1997, the festival has recognized significant works ofhigh artistry and creativity and in addition to a yearly Exhibition of Award-winning Works has held other events, such as symposiums, screenings, and showcases. Last year, the 20th Festival received 4,034 entries from 87 countries and regions around the world, demonstrating is continuing evolution as an establishedannual international festival. Award-winning Works are exhibited both within Japan and abroad through various projects and events organized by The Agency of
Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan which aims to develop and promote the creation of Media Arts by focusing primarily on the new generation of artists.
Twitter: @JMediaArtsFes_e

http://festival.j-mediaarts.jp/en/

Inquiries: Office of Project for Participation in Overseas Media Arts Festivals (c/o NHK international, Inc.) | jmaf-info@nhkint.or.jp

http://jmaf-promote.jp/global/en/

Shinjuko

Shishi YAMAZAKI

Pray Installation

Shinjuko world Video works presentation

YAMASUKI YAMAZAKI Animation screening[2012 / Painting on folding screen][2011-2016 / Video works]

This is my home town. I foundout women’s history of myhome town. It is the history
about trafficked woman.
Currently I am wearing myart work and play. This is thephoto which my husband
took.

This is a video anthology of Shinjuko’s representative
works. The wide-ranging introduction to Shinjuko’s
world includes an animation about how women age,
a pop idol music video, and a “narration performance”.

[2013 / Animated short film / 17th Animation Division Jury Selection]

Live drawing will be presented from 19:00 on 16th
March.
©Shinjuko Photo: MASUDA Kenichi

Cherry Chance! [2015 / Music video]
Rumi Shihido [at INOKASHIRA] [2015 / Music video]
Please ★DNA [2016 / Music video]
Shinjuko Exercise [2016 / Music video]
The Sister is Ribbon Bow Mad [2011 / Music video]
Shinjuko Performance of narrator in Japanesesilent cinema [2011 / Documentary video]

When you feel delight, your joy feeds into itself
making you forget the reason, and as the feeling
passes through your entire body it embraces evensorrow and madness, before blossoming… Createdas the end of 2013 approaches, this work expresses“innocent elation” at the opening of curtains onto
a new year, coupled with the “joy so great that it
makes you forget its reason” felt everyday by thecreator. (2 min. 22 sec.)©2013 Shishi Yamazaki All Rights Reserved.

©Shinjuko

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Opening Performance

Performer: Shinjuko

Venue: Bildraum 07

16 March (Thursday) 19:00—

Shinjuko will perform, including live drawings, at the opening event.

Curator’s Talk

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Venue: Bildraum 07"tenacious, gracious"
17 March (Friday) 15:30—
Guest: KOUNO Fumiyo
Moderator: OKAMOTO Mitsuko (Planning director)

Metro Kinokulturhaus

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Bildraum 07

Planning director Mitsuko Okamoto will talk about the tenacity and graciousness of Japanese womenin the works of Fumiyo Kouno, considering the themes of each work, the people who are featured inthem, anecdotes from the production process, and her distinctive ways of seeing and thinking.

Workshop

Venue: Foyer, Metro Kinokulturhaus

Lecturer: Shinjuko

17 March (Friday) 18:00— / 19:30—

Up to 8 participants each session
Shinjuko’s pictures have their roots in Japanese calligraphy. The workshop will introduce her novel script.

Special Screening

In This Corner of the World

Venue: Metro Kinokulturhaus

16 March (Thursday) 21:00— / 19 March (Sunday) 11:30—*Greeting of KOUNO Fumiyo, Original author of Manga at the screening venue.
tricky women is a festival of works by women but there will also be a special screening of In This Corner of the World, an animation by the male film director, Sunao Katabuchi.

LectureIn This Corner of the World
Guest: KOUNO Fumiyo Moderator: Jaqueline Berndt (Professor, Kyoto Seika University)

Venue: Metro Kinokulturhaus

17 March (Friday) 13:00—15:00

Professor Jaqueline Berndt of Kyoto Seika University talks with Fumiyo Kouno, author of the original In This Corner of the World manga.

Screening

Metro Kinokulturhaus
17 March (Friday) 21:30— / 18 March (Saturday) 19:00—
Venue:

Japan Media Arts Festival curation program under the theme of“tenacious, gracious”
By means of animation, a medium divorced from physical, temporal and spatial constraints, women are seen
to prance with true freedom across the screen. Their
expressions are simultaneously those of innocent girls
and mischievous little devils who love to play tricks onpeople. These are women with the power to draw on
the diversity innate to them from birth and use it torespond more flexibly to whatever external situation
they encounter. In this program, I tried to compile
expressions of female existence as described by female
writers living in Japan. I want viewers to appreciate
this intensely feminine freedom to the full.

1. The Evening Traveling, KONDOH Akino, 6th Animation Division Excellence Award (4’00”)
2. Papillon Yoshiko, Shinjuko (3’25”)
3. YAMASUKI YAMAZAKI, Shishi YAMAZAKI, 17th Animation Division Jury Selection (2’22”)
4.	S ummer’s Puke is Winter’s Delight, KABUKI Sawako, Artist selected at 17th Animation Division Jury
		 Selection (2’59”)

5. The Blooms, KUGENUMA Ayasa (5’40”)
6. Sunset Flower Blooming, HU Yuanyuan, 16th Animation Division Jury Selection (10’19”)
7. Spring Sleeper, MATSUMOTO Saki (2’04”)
8. Snow Hut, MIZUSHIRI Yoriko, 17th Animation Division Jury Selection (5’22”)
9. Airy me, KUNO Yoko, 17th Animation Division New Face Award (5’38”)
10. KiyaKiya, KONDOH Akino, 16th Animation Division Jury Selection (6’39”)
11. Hide-and-seek, SHIRAISHI Keiko (7’52”)
12.	B irth—Weaving life, WAKAMI Arisa / ARAI Chie / KOGUMA Atsuko, Artist selected at 6th Animation
		 Division Jury Selection (19’04”)

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18 March (Saturday) 16:00—
Tamako love story [2013 / Animated feature film / 18th Animation Division New Face Award] |YAMADA Naoko
All third-year high school student KITASHIRAKAWA Tamako ever thinks about is mochi rice cakes. On the way home from school
one day, Tamako talks with her friends about what they will do after graduation. While her friends are uncertain about their
futures, Tamako is apathetic: She will take over her family's mochi shop. Just as she is starting to have premonitions of changearound her, Tamako is told by her childhood friend OJI Mochizo that he will go to university in Tokyo. To Tamako, who has spent
all her childhood side by side with Mochizo, this is unthinkable. And then Mochizo tells her that he loves her. The young girl issuddenly thrust down the path to becoming an adult by the appearance of love in her life. This tale of youth is a sequel to theanimated TV series Tamako Market. (83 min. 50 sec.)© Kyoto Animation/Usagiyama Shopping Street

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1. The Evening Traveling, KONDOH Akino
2. Papillon Yoshiko, Shinjuko
3. YAMASUKI YAMAZAKI, Shishi YAMAZAKI
4. Summer’s Puke is Winter’s Delight, KABUKI Sawako
5. The Blooms, KUGENUMA Ayasa
6. Sunset Flower Blooming, HU Yuanyuan
7. Spring Sleeper, MATSUMOTO Saki
8. Snow Hut, MIZUSHIRI Yoriko
9. Airy me, KUNO Yoko
10. KiyaKiya, KONDOH Akino
11. Hide-and-seek, SHIRAISHI Keiko
12. Birth—Weaving life, WAKAMI Arisa / ARAI Chie / KOGUMA Atsuko
13. Tamako love story, YAMADA Naoko

Organizer: Japan Media Arts Festival / Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Co-organizer: tricky women 2017
Cooperation: Gallery Bildraum 07
Planning Director: OKAMOTO Mitsuko

tricky women 201715 (Wednesday)—19 (Sunday) March, 2017
Venue: Metro Kinokulturhaus (Johannesgasse 4, 1010 Wien, Austria)