Kaori Koyasu: Artist. Koyasu moved to Berlin in 1989 after establishing herself as an artist of some renown in Tokyo following her studies at Tama Art University, Tokyo. As a young woman in Tokyo, she experienced the predictable social pressures to conform to that society's dictates, and refused. Once in Berlin, and the rest of Western Europe through her travels, she realized that she could never go back. Thus began an independent art career and her explorations into her role as an artist, a woman, and an auslander, after being based in Berlin. Of all the artists chosen for this exhibition, Koyasu is most conscious of her outsider status, hence her interest in the displaced Tibetan women. She is the least exhibited of all the artists in this show, and in some ways the most interesting because of her angst, her vitality and her fresh approach to artmaking. Her chosen medium is 8mm film, although she has access to more sophisticated technologies. There is a raw quality to her work that should be encouraged, and AUSLANDER VIDEO will do that.