Single-channel Screening
單窗錄像作品放映
9 January 2015 (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]

“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.

Related Website
http://floatingprojectscollective.net/main/#stock-taking/concrete-videos

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)