CONCRETE VIDEOS 塑形錄像

Single-channel Screening 單窗錄像作品放映 : 9 January 2016 (Sat) | 4:00-6:30pm

INTRODUCING A GROUP OF YOUNG VIDEO ARTISTS | Meret BHEND / Ryan CHAN 陳小龍 / Anna CHIM 詹可瑩 / DING Cheuk-laam 丁卓藍 / IP Sze-sze 葉詩詩/ QIAO Qing 喬青 / Gloria SHUM 岑泳霈 / Don TSANG 曾旭熙 / Dorothy WONG 黃加頌 / Winnie YAN 忻慧妍 / YANG Hsinyi 楊心苡 / YIP Hei 葉曦 // Developed and curated by Linda LAI 黎肖嫻 [part of her "Where Else to Look?" project] +The program described here was partially supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. 9042111 / CityU 11404614): "Where Else to Look" on alternative screen practices in HK “Concrete video,” a term Stephane Audeguy used to describe the video art of Robert Cahen, refers to the latter's training in the musique concrête tradition of Pierre Schaeffer, which evolved into a position on videography. Concrete videos, by extension of "musique concrête," liberate visual and aural matter from strict mimesis of the real. In preserving abstraction as much as the figurative power of sights and sounds, a work is best understood as a “machine” systematically exploring the allowances of “pictorial effects.” In the series "Concrete Videos," sound and image are potential raw material for composition, pointing to worlds-to-be, rooted in the fragments of the real. All video works highlight the phenomenology of the moving image as two parallel courses of "description." On the one hand, the image discourse, composed by the artist deploying the descriptive power of the surfaces of image fragments, unfolds in ways that commands new modes of attentiveness. On the other hand, viewers journey along the thick descriptive moment-to-moment unfolding image flow to re-learn how to see, how to listen, and how to pay attention. ***Full details of program and individual works: [click here]

1	Hide & Seek Don TSANG Yuk-hei 曾旭熙 Hong Kong | 2014 | Color | 2'00" | Sound |
2	Border 邊境，近境 Dorothy WONG 黃加頌 Hong Kong, Taiwan, Zurich | 2015 | Color | 14'14" | Silent |
3	My Room YANG Hsinyi 楊心苡 Hong Kong | 2015 | Color | 1'11" | Sound |
4	Hanging between stone and forest 架空在叢林與石頭之間 DING Cheuk-laam 丁卓藍 Hong Kong | 2015 | Color | 12'38" | Sound |
5	All That is Solid Melts into Air  Anna CHIM 詹可瑩 Hong Kong | 2015 | Color | 4'30" | Sound |
6	The Glimpse of Tin Shui Wai: A Transmedia Study of Robert Cahen Ryan CHAN Siu-lung 陳小龍 Hong Kong | 2015 | Color | 9'10" | Sound |
7	Watching Potato IP Sze-sze 葉詩詩 Hong Kong | 2015 | Color | 4'06" | Sound |
8	T~~_T~~ Anna CHIM 詹可瑩 Hong Kong | 2015 | Color | 4'22" | Sound |
9	We shift the scenery now from the inside to the outside (work in progress) Meret BHEND Zurich | 2015 | Color | 14'36" | Sound |
10	Finger: an expanded study of Steina and Woody Vasulka’s Noisefields QIAO Qing 喬青 Hong Kong | 2015 | Color | 4'35" | Sound |
11	Drain: An Expanded Study of Stan Brakhage’s Mothlight YAN Wai Yin 忻慧妍 Hong Kong | 2015 | Color | 4'21" | Silent |
12	Rectangle: an expanded study of Steina and Woody Vasulka’s Noisefields YANG Hsinyi 楊心苡 Hong Kong | 2015 | Color | 4'49" | Sound |
13	M.A.E : a transmedia study of Kurt Kren, tribute to 31/75: Asyl (1975) Crosby YIP Hei 葉曦 Hong Kong | 2015 | Color | 4'13" | Silent |
14	Last 3 Minutes QIAO Qing 喬青 Hong Kong | 2015 | Color | 3'20" | Sound |
15	To Kill A Hill For Planting A Tree: A Transmedia Study of Sara Pucill’s Blind Light DING Cheuk-laam 丁卓藍 Hong Kong | 2015 | Color | 13'57" | Sound |
16	Flanger: a transmedia study of Robert Cahen’s L’entr’aperçu Anna CHIM 詹可瑩 Hong Kong | 2015 | Color | 5'01" | Sound
17	I am Waiting for Some Ideas Ryan CHAN Siu-lung 陳小龍 Hong Kong | 2015 | Color | 9'46" | Sound |
18	Light Waves Gloria Shum 岑泳霈 Hong Kong | 2015 | Color | 3'25" | Silent |

  Related reading: "Critical Spectacles & Wandering Visions: Videographic Experiments as Micro Narratives 凝神、界外：實驗錄像書寫作為微敘述" (Linda C.H. Lai 黎肖嫻) ** Videos in the screening are available for viewing in Floating Project's Media Library. Please contact contact@floatingprojectscollective.net for further detail