Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, third cycle of the Commission Project
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
About the Commission Project: “The Commission Project was launched at the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2023 as a new program of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, in which artists based in Japan are selected and commissioned to create and exhibit moving-image works as products of the new festival. At the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2026, a special exhibition by Komori Haruka, a Special Prize winner of the previous edition, will be on display. In addition, the first screening for the next edition will be held concurrently during the festival, in which a jury of five Japanese and international members with expertise in the field of moving images will select four artists as finalists,” Yebisu Festival for Art & Alternative Vision.
See here for further detail about the Commission Project’s artists selection process and production of commissioned work.
The Moving Image Today and Tomorrow: Toward the Third Commission Project symposium
TOP Museum, 11 February 2026
First launched in 2023, the Commission Project invites Japan-based artists to create new moving-image works, which are then premiered at the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions. Building on the networks the Festival has developed in Japan and internationally, the initiative has continually helped sustain artists’ creative practices by circulating these works widely in Japan and beyond.
This symposium brings together members of the jury to consider both the potential of the moving image in Japan and what such practice can be today, drawing on what they have come to recognize through the Commission Project to date. The session will also announce the four finalists—the commissioned artists—for the third Commission Project.
Speakers (Commission Project selection panel members)
OKI Keisuke (Media Artist)
SAITO Ayako (Film Studies, Professor at Meiji Gakuin University)
Leonhard BARTOLOMEUS (Curator at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] / Gudskul Ekosistem)
May Adadol INGAWANIJ (Film and Media Studies, Curator, Professor at University of Westminster)
TASAKA Hiroko (Curator at Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions 2026 / Tokyo Photographic Art Museum)