I. Quarantine: Close Generative Systems 隔離:向內衍生的系統
This video is the artist’s mourning of the recent changes in her life. It is also a mark on the memory of a special transitional space, across and connecting two places. In this transitional space, she reflects on time and selfhood. The video features the artist walking in the East Broadway Mall, Chinatown, New York, which was founded in the 80s and is at risk of shutting down for good. It ends with a view from Hong Kong Regal Airport Hotel in December 2021.
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Cici Wu 武雨濛 is a New York-based mixed media artist. She works with video, film, installation, found objects, drawing, and elements of deconstruction in cinematic tradition to address and reveal the invisible links between social and individual microhistories, memories, spiritualities, and cultural belief systems. Writing and videography are also integral to her artistic practice. She received her BA in Creative Media from the City University of Hong Kong, and MFA in Sculpture from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She has had solo exhibitions at 47 Canal, New York (2021, 2018); Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2019); and has participated in group exhibitions at the Drawing Center, New York (2020), Artists Space, New York (2020), Para Site, Hong Kong (2020, 2018), among others. She has participated in the 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2021) and the Yokohama Triennial 2020 Episōdo 02 (2020). She also co-founded PRACTICE, a studio, residence and exhibition space based in New York (2015-2019) and The Room of Spirit and Time at Queens Museum, New York (2019-2021).
“Having my third quarantine in Shenzhen, I was leaping to another new year marked by Covid-19. This time, I wanted to get it right, just the right amount of sorrow, excitement, boredom and whatever fluctuating emotions might incubate during the 14 days of confinement. I played a peeping game with all the uniformed figures dressed in white or black, and fulfilled my secret task to turn them all into queer lovers.”
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ZHANG Zimu 張子木 is a researcher and moving image practitioner. She just completed her PhD research on visual culture & environmental humanities at the School of Creative Media, the City University of Hong Kong. She is the recipient of the 2022 Landhaus fellowship at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Her videos have been featured in multiple international film festivals, art and academic events. She has curated screening programs for the Singapore International Film Festival, Inner Mongolian Film Week, Beijing International Short Film Festival and more. Together with friends, she co-founded the Moonshine Screening Project (2017-2019, Guangzhou SJT co-governance space) and Black Tent Theatre (2021- , Guangdong Times Museum), focusing on the ecology and sociality of moving image and moving image activities.
Why do we remember the past and not the future?
為什麼我們記住的是過去而不是未來?
Do we exist in time, or does time exist in us?
我們存在於時間之中,還是時間存在於我們之中?
What does it mean to say that time passes?
到底什麼是時間的流逝?
Because of the light, there is time.
因為光,所以有了時間。
Camera is a time machine.
相機猶如時光機。
Light flashes, Time passes.
一瞥浮光,恍如隔世。
– Inspired by a theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli.
靈感來自理論物理學家卡洛·羅威利。
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Dory Cheng focuses on photography, specializing in alternative print processes. Dory's works are mainly inspired by books and life. She also accepts experimental items from "failures" to discover alternative aesthetics. She builds a temporary darkroom at home and makes a pinhole camera with handy tools. Before the pandemic was over, she had already gone to the United States and came back. She practices observing through moving images and talking to herself during her solo journey. She is about to complete her Bachelor of Arts (Hons) at the School of Creative Media.
鄭多莉, 攝影出身,主力研究傳統攝影工藝。她總抱持好奇心,以書本和生活為啟發,實驗出一堆作品。閒時突發其想,學習路仍在探索,也接受從「失敗」的實驗品,發掘另類美學。計劃沖曬底片並在家搭建臨時黑房,以簡單的工具自製針孔相機。疫情還未完結,便去一轉美國又回來了。在獨自旅程中練習以錄像觀察自己、和自己對話。鄭多莉, 現為城大創意媒體學院學生,正為畢業作品作最後衝刺。
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