Biography

2021
Cultural Affairs Agency selected project AFF Japan tour (usaginingen)

2019
JCI Japan Chairman’s Special Award (Emi Hirai)

2017
World OMOSIROI Award 3rd, Osaka knowledge capital (usaginingen)

2014
“Reykjavik Visiual Music Punto y Raya Festival”in Iceland, Live Cinema competition, 1st prize (usaginingen)
surPoemas underFilm 2014 (La Térmica, Malaga, Spain) Screening (usaginingen)

2013
JAPAN DAY 2013 “Short Cuts To Japan” (Black Box Kino im Filmmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany) Screening (usaginingen)

2012
Entertainment section, Asia Digital Art Award (usaginingen)

2011
Commercial Film section, Asia Pacific Advertising Festival Bronz (Shinichi Hirai)

2008
RemarkabIe commercial Film competition (Shinichi Hirai)

2006
New York One club, New York one show Silver (Emi Hirai)

2004
Joshi Art University, Museum storing prize (Emi Hirai)

2024
Teshima usaginingen theater (Kagawa, Japan)
The Prince Chichibu Memorial Hall, (Saitama, Japan)
Kodama House, National Registered Tangible Cultural Property (Nagano, Japan)
Flatpack Festival, (Birmingham, UK)
Peculiar Families Festival  (Split, Croatia)
CirkoBalkana  (Zagreb, Croatia)
Babel Festival(Târgovişte, Romania)
Kochi Prefectural Museum of Art’s theater hall. collaborate with papermoonpuppet (Kochi, Japan)

2023
Teshima usaginingen theater (Kagawa, Japan)
Asia Film Archive (Oldham Theatre, Shingapore)
Gulali Festival #2 (Yogyakarta、Indonesia)
ヘンカメプレゼンツCAMP10 (Chidori Park, Kanagaw, Japan)
Tour in Kyushu 2023(Zitta Zetta, Fukuoka, Japan)
Tour in Kyushu 2023(Hirata post building, Oita、Japan)
Tour in Kyushu 2023(Tsukimi, Kumamoto、Japan)
Tour in Kyushu 2023(Shiranui museum, Kumamoto,Japan)
Tour in Kyushu 2023(Atlier Fujitaka, Miyaszaki,Japan)

2022
Teshima usaginingen theater (Kagawa, Japan)
Nippon connection Film Festival (Frankfurt, Germany)
Mapping Festival (Geneva, Switzerland)
supported by Ito Garelly (Sttutgart,Germany)
Japan tour 2022(Salon Batton, Kagawa, Japan)
Japan tour 2022(Wako Kaikan, Ehime, Japan)
Japan tour 2022(Ushimado Teremok, Okayama, Japan)
Japan tour 2022(Naoshima hall, Kagawa,Japan)
Joshi art univercity(Joshi art univercity, Kanagawa,Japan)
KANEYAMA RETREAT (Yamagata, Japan)
Japan tour 2022(Niseko factory, Hokkaido, Japan)
Japan tour 2022(Aoyagi Kaikan, Hokkaido, Japan)
Hgashikawa Art Festival(Sentopua Higawakawa, Hokkaido, Japan)
Japan tour 2022(Gluck kindergarten, Hokkaido, Japan)
Japan tour 2022(Toyoura Kaikan, Hokkaido, Japan)
Tobiu art festival (Shiraoi, Hokkaido, Japan)
Japan tour 2022 (moksha coffee, Kagawa, Japan)
14th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (TOP Museum, Tokyo, Japan)

2021
Japan tour 2021(Hokkaido〜Okinawa)38 shows
Cinema donuts(Okinawa)
Cafe umie(Kagawa)
Theater Takogura(Kochi)
Amua hall(Kagoshima)
Cinema Liberte(Oita)
Saiki Pandahouse(Oita)
Ifukumachi kindergarten(Fukuoka)
Itoshima SALT(Fukuoka)
Old Yame(Fukuoka)
Green’s Baby(Shimane)
Minagarten(Hiroshima)
Kissa River(Nagoya)
Shirasagi Bijutsu(Kanazawa)
Hotori Cinema(Toyama)
Kyoto International Film Festival(Kyoto)
Comsun(Osaka)
Shioya heso.(Kobe)
Tachikawa Roba house(Tokyo)
Museum of Hajimari(Fukushima)
Yama bagle factory(Yamagata)
Ishinomaki IRORI(Miyagi)
Ninigi Cafe(Akita)
Studio Kaikon(Miyagi)
Tagajo Librally(Miyagi)
cotton boy(Hakodate)
Morimachi Haru(Hokkaido)
Arte piazza museum(Hokkaido)
Tobiu art festival(Hokkaido)
Yanbaru art festival 2020-2021(大宜味村旧塩屋小学校, Okinawa)

2020
Kageoka usaginingen theater (Kageoka house, Tokyo,Japan)
20th Nippon Connection 2020 (Online, Frankfurt, Germany)
Yanbaru Art Festival 2020-2021(大宜味村旧塩屋小学校, Okinawa, Japan)

2019
Teshima usaginingen theater (Kagawa, Japan)
Live performance (St.Sacramentos, Kaunus, Lithuania)
Made in Japan 2019 (St. Catherine’s Church, Vilnius, Lithuania)
Punto y Raya Festival 2019 Junior (CeTA, Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland)
松江水燈路(飛雲閣, Shimane, Japan)
Gozo-Japan Friendship Event 2019 (Citadel, Gozo island, Malta republic)
万華鏡 (Shanghai Children’s Art Theatre , Shanghai, China)
Yanbaru art festival2019-2020(大宜味村旧塩屋小学校, Okinawa, Japan)

2018
Teshima usaginingen Theater (Teshima usaginingen Theater , Kgawa, Japan)
One Dream 2018(Hiroshima peace memoril park, Hiraoshima, Japan)
Yanbaru art festival2018-2019(大宜味村旧塩屋小学校, Okinawa, Japan)

2017
Teshima usaginingen Theater (Teshima usaginingen Theater, Kagawa, Japan)
OMOSIROI Award 3rd(Granfront Osaka, Osaka, Japan)
尾道乱反射(蔵, Hiraoshima, Japan)
Live Cinema Show(香川県善通寺第一高校, Kagawa, Japan)
Live Cinema Show(Yokohama Azamino Museum, Kanagawa, Japan)
Live Cinema Show(Naoshima-shimakoya, Kagawa, Japan)

2016
Teshima Usaginingen Teather (Teshima Usaginingen Theater, Teshima, Japan)
Live Cinema Show (Chiba city museum, Chiba, Japan)
Inshadow Festival 2016 (Museu de oriente, Lisbon, Portugal)
Live Cinema Show (Stone theater, Taitung, Taiwan)
Performing Arts Selection (Aichi Arts Center, Aichi, Japan)
Made in Japan 2016 (Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania)
Live Cinema Show (MMK, Frankfurt, Germany)
Fantoche Film Festival (Royal Baden, Baden, Switzerland)
HIdehiko Kuramoto Closing party (Sakaide city museum, Kagawa, Japan)
Michiakari project (Kamaboko factory, Kagawa, Japan)
Michishirube project (Fukushima car parking, Kagawa, Japan)
Barents Spektakel 2016 (Nikel Art School, Nikel, Russia)
Barents Spektakel 2016 (SnowHotel and Andresgrotta, Kirkenes, Norway)

2015
Tokai tour 2015 (Shikema Garelly, Aichi, Japan)
Tokai tour 2015 (STENPORT, Gifu, Japan)
NEoN Media Art Festival 2015 (Bonar Hall, Dundee, Scotland)
Antimatter Media Art (Gallery Deluge, Victoria BC, Canada)
Live Cinema (Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belgium)
BAM 2 Festival (Manège FONCK, Liège, Belgium)
Digital Big Screen 2015 (DDT, Trbovlje, Slovenia)
Rokko Meets Art 2015 (Rokko Musical box Museum, Kobe, Japan)
Kyushu tour 2015 (Fukushima nursery school, Kumamoto, Japan)
Kyushu tour 2015 (Hitoyoshi Mori no Hall, Kumamoto, Japan)
Kyushu tour 2015 (TAGSTA, Fukuoka, Japan)
Kyushu tour 2015 (Hita Liberte, Oita, Japan)
Kyushu tour 2015 (Kyusan University, Fukuoka, Japan)
JDZB Open House 2015 (Japanese -German Center, Berlin, Germnay)
15th Japanese Film Festival (Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Theater project “Anonymous Trip” (E-Werk, Freiburg, Germany)
LE HUBLOT 2015 (16 r ue de Roquebillière, Nice, France)
Flatpack Film Festival (Millennium Point, Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Live Cinema 2nd night (MKll, London, United Kingdom)
Live Cinema 1st night (I’klectik, London, United Kingdom)

2014
Audio-Visual concert (Neue Heimat, Berlin, Germany)
Christmas Concert (KONK, Berlin, Germany)
Shiny Toys A/V Festival#5 (Ringlokschuppen, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany)
30th interfilm Festival Berlin (Grüner Salon, Berlin, Germany)
Kasseler Dokfest#31 (Kassel, Germany)
OFNI Festival (Poitiers, France)
30th interfilm Festival Berlin (Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany)
ラビ&ピースTour (Roba house, Tokyo, Japan)
ラビ&ピースTour (Roppongi Shinsekai, Tokyo, Japan)
ラビ&ピースTour (Harajuku Vacant, Tokyo, Japan)
ラビ&ピースTour (Abecut, Yamagata, Japan)
ラビ&ピースTour (Kuahouse Goten, Yamagata, Japan)
ラビ&ピースTour (Ishinha Yataimura, Osaka, Japan)
roBot Festival 07 (Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy)
Digital Big Screen (Trbovlje, Slovenia)
Vision’R Festival (Cite des Science et de L’Industrie, Paris, France)
ラビ&ピースTour (YCC, Yokohama, Japan)
ラビ&ピースTour (Awakura Kaikan, Okayama, Japan)
ラビ&ピースTour (Guggenheim, Kobe, Japan)
ラビ&ピースTour (Takamatsu Umie, Kagawa, Japan)
ラビ&ピースTour (Ciema, Saga, Japan)
ラビ&ピースTour (TAGSTA, Fukuoka, Japan)
ラビ&ピースTour (Hitoyoshi Mori Hall, Kumamoto, Japan)
Fusion Festival 2014 (Lärz, Germany)
Kein Festival 2014 – Facade Projection only (ORWO haus, Berlin Germany)
Reykjavik Visiual Music Punto y Raya Festival 2014 (HARPA, Reykjavik, Iceland)
KONTAKT#2 (Alena Berlin, Berlin, Germany)

2013
Berliner Adventsmarkt mt kind (HIMBEER, Berlin, Germany)
YAMANAMI Art Festival 2013 (Sanuki Mannou Park, Kagawa, Japan)
Osaka Music Festival 2013 (Osaka Castle Music Hall, Osaka, Japan)
usaginingen 2013 mini tour in Japan (Umie, Kagawa, Japan)
usaginingen 2013 mini tour in Japan (TAGSTA, Fukuoka, Japan)
“Day forest is lost” Takuya Kamiike solo exhibiton opening party (Shionoe museum of art, Kagawa, Japan)
“Ichinomiya accross arts” (Ichinomiya, Kagawa, Japan)
“littlepopup at HIMBEER magazine” (HIMBEER, Berlin, Germany)
DMY International Design Festival Berlin 2013 (Flughafen Berlin Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany)
Moving Silence Athens 2013 supported by Goethe-Institut (Goethe-Institut hall, Athen, Greece)
The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge (Naherholung Sternchen, Berlin, Germany)
Live cinema by usaginingen (feinkost, Leipzig, Germany)

2012
night cruising presents “Masayoshi Fujita Japan Tour 2012 in KYOTO” (Oil, Kyoto, Japan)
usaginingen 2012 Tokyo 2days (Aquvii, Tokyo, Japan)
usaginingen 2012 Tokyo 2days (Gallery-ARATANIURANO, Tokyo, Japan)
usaginingen 2012 mini tour in Japan (NOUKA, Yamagata, Japan)
usaginingen 2012 mini tour in Japan (Abecut, Yamagata, Japan)
flau x HUTU presents: FOUNDLAND (VACANT, Tokyo, Japan)
Camera Japan Festival 2012 (LantarenVenster, Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Brucke presents Masayoshi Fujita + usaginingen (Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin, Germany)
Nacht der Kunst 2012 (Open air, Leipzig, Germany)
Live Cinema night by Pierre Hebert+usaginingen (Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany)
Taste Festival Berlin 2012 (Direktorenhaus, Berlin, Germany)
Masayoshi Fujita + usaginingen (Theater Kapelle, Berlin, Germany)
The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge (Naherholung Sternchen, Berlin, Germany)
Johannes Marx + usaginingen (Schokoladen, Berlin, Germany)

2011
Sub-tle. + usaginingen (Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany)
Johannes Marx + usaginingen (Modulor, Berlin, Germany)
The first story (Garelie 4AM, Brno, Czech Republic)
間 (Japanese Embassy, Berlin, Germany)

2022
Emi Hirai Drawing Exhibition 「見えないものが生きている」at Gallarey Book Marute

2021-2020
Yanbaru Art Festival 2020-2021(旧塩屋小学校、Okinawa、Japan)

2019-2020
Yanbaru Art Festival 2019-2020(旧塩屋小学校、Okinawa、Japan)

2018-2019
Yanbaru Art Festival 2018-2019(旧塩屋小学校、Okinawa、Japan)

2023
with papermoon puppet thetre (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

2016
Transboarder Cafe (Kirkenes, Norway)

2015
Anonymous Trip (E-Werk, Freibrug, Germany)

2023
Tamkamatsu Chuo Highschool(Kagawa, Japan)

2022
Joshi Art univercity(Kanagawa, Japan)

2020
Kurashiki elementarly school(Okayama, Japan)

2019
Nature school(Templin, Germany)
Punto y Raya JUNIOR 2019(Wroclaw, Poland)

2017
Unoichi (Okayama, Japan)
Zentsuji High School (Kagawa Japan)
Yokohama Azamino Museum (Kanagawa, Japan)

2016
Inshadow Festival 2016 (Museu de oriente, Lisbon, Portugal)
Kyushu Sangyo University (Fukuoka, Japan)
Takamatsu Industrial Arts High School (Kagawa, Japan)

2015
FLATPACK FILM FESTIVAL 2015 (Millennium Point, Birmingham, UK)
LE HUBLOT 2015 (16 r ue de Roquebillière, Nice,France)
Takamatsu Industrial Arts High School (Kagawa, Japan)
Stamping work shop for children, LittlePopUp (Berlin, Germany)

2014
Mamurogawa/Ohori/Akakura elementary school (Yamagata, Japan)
Hakemiya nursery school (Kumamoto, Japan)
Fukushima nursery school (Kumamoto, Japan)

2013
Setouchi triennale 2013, Awashima (Kagawa, Japan)
The Braunschweig University of Art (Braunschweig, Germany)
Hita East Junior high school (Oita, Japan)

2023
Art book 「Blak Kite」

2021
Art zine 「きせきのデイゴ」

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Nice, Francenewspaper
Shikoku Japan newspaper
Freiburg Zeitung
Zitty Berlin
Goethe-Institut Japan online
Huffington Post Japan
Kumamoto Japan newspaer
Yamagata Japan newspaperper
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