A K A R I Y A S U D A
Performance for Aboutface presents "The butterfly that perfumes
it’s wings fans the lotus flower" (2017) at Pickle Factory, London
Photo: Shino Yanai
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Akari Yasuda is a Hiroshima born and Dubai based artist. Having previously worked as a journalist and an editor at a publishing house in Tokyo between 2007 and 2011, she completed her BA (Hons) in Fine Art at University of the Arts London (Central Saint Martins) in 2018 and moved to the UAE in 2021. She is currently working on a new work with a support by Art Jameel Resarch and Practice Platform programme which supports UAE based art projects addressing the climate crisis granted by Dubai Culture & Arts Authority.
Akari’s practice, which encompasses video, performance and collaborations with sound artists, relates to the multivalence of the post-anthropocene and the potentialities of a post-industrial utopian future. Her work has been shown at various art spaces in the UK, France, Holland, and Japan. She performed with sound artist Ben Kelly/Aboutface at Freerotation – Electronic Audio/Visual Festival (Wales) and her video works were shortlisted for the TENT Academy Awards 2018 (Rotterdam) and le Festival Des Cinémas Différents Et Expérimentaux De Paris 2022 (Paris).
安田朱里は広島県出身、ドバイ在住のアーティスト。2007年から2011年まで東京の出版社で記者・編集者を務めた後に渡英、2018年にロンドン芸術大学セントラル・セント・マーチンズ ファインアート学部を卒業、2021年にUAEへ移住。彼女は現在、ドバイ文化庁の助成で気候危機に取り組むUAE拠点の芸術プロジェクトを支援するアート・ジャミール研究実践プラットフォームプログラムの支援を受け、新作に取り組んでいる。
朱里の活動は、映像、パフォーマンス、音響アーティストとの協働を包含し、ポスト人新生の多義性とポスト産業的・ユートピア的未来の可能性に関わっている。作品は英国、フランス、オランダ、日本の様々なアートスペースで発表され、Freerotation – Electronic Audio/Visual Festival（ウェールズ）ではサウンドアーティストのベン・ケリー／Aboutfaceとパフォーマンスを行い、映像作品はThe TENT Academy Awards 2018（ロッテルダム）とFestival Des Cinémas Différents Et Expérimentaux De Paris 2022 （パリ異色・実験映画祭）（パリ）にノミネートされた。
CV
2024-2025 Art Jameel Research and Practice Platform recipient (ongoing), Art Jameel, Dubai
2020-2023 RAM Association Intern: Research for Arts and Media-project hosted by
Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts
2016-2017 Artist Assistant of Takahiro Iwasaki, Japan Pavilion, 57th International Venice Biennale
2014-2018 BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London
2013-2014 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Central Saint Martins, London
2007-2011 Journalist / editor at SHUFU TO SEIKATSU SHA publisher, Tokyo
Lives and works between UAE and UK
Selected Screenings
2022 - Festival Des Cinémas Différents Et Expérimentaux De Paris 24e édition, Le Grand Action, Paris
2021 - RAM Practice 2021 – Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
2018 - Video Art Festival – TENT Academy Awards 2018, Kino Cinema, Rotterdam
- Freerotation – Electronic Audio/Visual Festival 2018, Baskerville Hall, Wales
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 - 06 08 2017 (To Be In The Present - a Samurai tea ceremony, commemorating 72 years since the
bombing of Hiroshima), White Conduit Projects, London
Selected Group Exhibitions/Performances
2022 - The wind went crazy between the rocks because to its ears the soft song of the trees came
no longer, Baskerville Hall, Wales
2021 - RAM Practice 2021, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
2018 - TENT Academy Awards 2018 Finalists, TENT Rotterdam, Rotterdam
- COLOURED, Willesden Gallery, London
- Anomalous Forms, Crypt Gallery, London
- Degree Show One, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London
- The King of a Hundred Streams, The Old Malt House, Bristol
- Tate Exchange : STUDIO COMPLEX, Tate Modern, London
2017 - CROSS PLAY, White Conduit Projects, London
- The butterfly that perfumes it’s wings fans the lotus flower, The Pickle Factory, London
- Art Action UK : Art and the Anthropocene, Central Saint Martins, London
- Tate Exchange : This is an Art School, Tate Modern, London
2016 - Mind, Body, Faith, Wellcome Collection, London
- SOPOROSE, St Ethelburga’s, London
2015 - City, Studio or Similar, The Lethaby Gallery, London
Awards
2024 - Art Jameel Research and Practice Platform grant, Dubai
2022 - Festival Des Cinémas Différents Et Expérimentaux De Paris 24e édition (Shortlisted), Paris
2018 - TENT Academy Awards 2018 – The Best Foreign Film Award, Short listed (Rotterdam)
Lectures and public talks
2019 - MAIMOKU episode 85 : Art and The Plastic Waste Crisis with Artist Akari Yasuda,
The Mainichi Newspaper's online TV program, live streamed on 27 June 2019
Collections
2018 - Christian Dreyer CFA : CEO, CFA Society Switzerland (Basel) [Personal Collection]
Selected Media Coverage
- Hanayo Kuno, People: Akari Yasuda / Presented a Video Work on Plastic Waste, The Mainichi
Newspaper (morning edition), 1 November 2018
- Hanayo Kuno, South France report : A Beach Where Plastics Bloom, The Mainichi Newspaper blog,
9 October 2018