Videotage is a leading non-profit organization in Hong Kong focusing on the presentation, promotion, production and preservation of video and media art, serving artists in the expanding technological art and culture network. Since 1986, Videotage has developed itself from an umbrella for media artists, to a network of media art and culture for cross-disciplinary cultural productions, and platform to facilitate international exchange.
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Videotage FUSE Residence Program ﹣ Peter Alwast Exhibition "Looking Down"
Dates:
Fri Dec 13, 2013 19:00 - Fri Dec 27, 2013
Location:
to kwa wan,
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
Videotage proudly presents the exhibition Looking Down by the FUSE resident artist Peter Alwast from December 13th to 27th. The exhibition is inspired by his experience and observations of Hong Kong and takes form as a four channel video installation, which combines video, 3D animation and drawing to explore the concepts of repetition, time suspended and how the vertical zones in the city becomes sites of social organization and contestation.
As Alwast’s first visit to Hong Kong, he was intrigued by the symbolic analogy between wealth and altitude. The richest people live with the most distance from the ground while the cities poorest literally occupy and sweep the ground beneath, with a conspicuous gap in between. As well, he expresses his insightful philosophy about life through the art work: the repetitive unfolding of time: the city sleeps, wakes, goes to work, comes home and at times goes wayward in repetitious rhythm. Through repetition, time appears to be suspended; we seem to be moving yet nothing changes except when repetition is broken by an object which falls to the ground. Repetition provides an illusory sense of mastery over time and space, regardless of the distance from the ground.
About the Artist
Peter Alwast is a cross media artist who has received a number of national and international awards. His work is held in public collections in Australia and the United States. Alwast’s practice employs a range of media including video, computer graphics, painting and drawing. Through the process of translation, his video works and drawings fold together different layers of representation, interchanging between real and virtual constructions of space. The constructed spaces within Alwast’s works are inflected with politics such as the use of appropriated images and text imbued with various kinds of utopian and romantic aspirations. In 1999, Peter Alwast was awarded a Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship and since completing his Masters in Fine Art degree from the Parsons School of Design in New York in 2001, he has exhibited nationally and internationally.
Date: 13 Dec – 27 Dec
Time: 12noon – 7pm
Venue: Videotage, Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong
FREE ADMISSION
As Alwast’s first visit to Hong Kong, he was intrigued by the symbolic analogy between wealth and altitude. The richest people live with the most distance from the ground while the cities poorest literally occupy and sweep the ground beneath, with a conspicuous gap in between. As well, he expresses his insightful philosophy about life through the art work: the repetitive unfolding of time: the city sleeps, wakes, goes to work, comes home and at times goes wayward in repetitious rhythm. Through repetition, time appears to be suspended; we seem to be moving yet nothing changes except when repetition is broken by an object which falls to the ground. Repetition provides an illusory sense of mastery over time and space, regardless of the distance from the ground.
About the Artist
Peter Alwast is a cross media artist who has received a number of national and international awards. His work is held in public collections in Australia and the United States. Alwast’s practice employs a range of media including video, computer graphics, painting and drawing. Through the process of translation, his video works and drawings fold together different layers of representation, interchanging between real and virtual constructions of space. The constructed spaces within Alwast’s works are inflected with politics such as the use of appropriated images and text imbued with various kinds of utopian and romantic aspirations. In 1999, Peter Alwast was awarded a Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship and since completing his Masters in Fine Art degree from the Parsons School of Design in New York in 2001, he has exhibited nationally and internationally.
Date: 13 Dec – 27 Dec
Time: 12noon – 7pm
Venue: Videotage, Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong
FREE ADMISSION
Echoshock: Film Screening + Band Performance
Dates:
Sat Nov 23, 2013 17:00 - Sat Nov 23, 2013
Location:
Hong Kong,
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
Through the screening of the documentary "HIDDEN AGENDA THE MOVIE" and the performance of two local bands - The Fat Jokers and New Youth Barbershop, Videotage will share with you the stories and spirit of Hong Kong independent music!
About the Film
HIDDEN AGENDA THE MOVIE is a documentary film, capturing the essence of the independent live house which had been evacuated twice in four years by the Hong Kong government. It tells the story of space, cluster, resistance and music, and was part of the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale Hong Kong Exhibition.
About the Performers
The Fat Jokers
The Fat Jokers is an alternative rock band formed in 2011. Leaded by guitarist and vocalist Adam, along with Fat Wong on blues harmonica/trumpet/keyboard, Bike Kit on Trombone, Matthew on Bass and Keith on Drums, the band attempt to explore various emotions aroused from people living in this tedious city through their music.
Influenced by blues and reggae and all other genres, The Fat Jokers blends everything together, from blues to bossa nova to rock to reggae to pop, they play a new style of fusion. The Fat Jokers hopes to provide their audiences a fresh experience with their compositions.
New Youth Barbershop
New Youth Barbershop is a local indie band formed in 2012 by two playful young men. They tell everyday fantasies with music and hope that someone would understand.
Admission is free of charge but seats are very limited.
Send email to info@videotage.org.hk or call (852) 2573 1869 now to reserve your seat!
Video Screening: Light Attack X Makers Movement
Dates:
Mon Nov 11, 2013 12:00 - Fri Nov 22, 2013
Location:
Hong Kong,
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
Three specially selected short films – Electric Signs, We are Makers and Urban Invader: Urban Attack – will be presented by Videotage, encouraging you to re-examine the ambivalent relationship between human-beings, technologies and their communities.
Electric Signs depicts a journey through the urban landscapes examining public spaces and their relationship between light, perception and the culture of consumerist, while Urban Invader – Urban Attack is a story a group of urban habitants reacting to the light attacks mentioned in Electric Signs. We are Makers bridges these two interesting short films and explore how new technologies and the culture of making are bringing us back to something deeply human.
Electric Signs
Alice ARNOLD | USA | 2011 | 57mins | Documentary | English without subtitle (VMAC Collection)
We are Makers
Learning Studio | USA | 17mins | Documentary | English without subtitle
Urban Invader-Urban Attack
Videotage | HK | 2012 | 5mins30s | Documentary | Cantonese with English and Chinese subtitles (VMAC Collection)
Admission Free
Tel : +852 2573 1869
Email : info@videotage.org.hk
101010zzz - video documentation of JODI's solo exhibition at Videotage, HK
Dates:
Tue May 31, 2011 18:15 - Mon Oct 10, 2011
Last year Videotage presented a solo exhibition by JODI (NL/BE) titled 101010zzz. The show opened on the most digital day 10/10/10 and received positive response from both local and international community.
Here we share a documentation of the artist talk at the opening in which Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans talked about the concept of the exhibition as well as their works exhibited in show.
http://vimeo.com/19571917
*This project is carried out with the generous support of the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, and is supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
Here we share a documentation of the artist talk at the opening in which Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans talked about the concept of the exhibition as well as their works exhibited in show.
http://vimeo.com/19571917
*This project is carried out with the generous support of the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, and is supported by Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
Wikitopia: Documentation Online NOW!
Dates:
Thu Nov 11, 2010 00:00 - Thu Nov 11, 2010
Location:
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China
[url=http://www.videotage.org.hk][color=#000000]VIDEOTAGE[/color][/url] presented [url=http://www.videotage.org.hk/wikitopia][color=#000000][b]WIKIT[/b][/color][color=#FF0000]O[/color][color=#000000][b]PIA[/b][/color][/url] in September 2010 as the first tinyfest on collaborative futures in Hong Kong.
Video documentation of the two brilliant keynotes are now online!
We invite you to watch and [url=http://www.facebook.com/videotage][color=#0000BF]'Like' us on facebook[/color][/url] if you enjoy these!
[u]Keynote 1[/u]
[url=http://www.vimeo.com/16462462][b][size=20][color=#000000]The Principle of Reciprocity[/color][/size][/b][/url] by [b]Dr. Hector Rodriguez[/b], [i]Associate Dean of School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong[/i]
[url]http://www.vimeo.com/16462462[/url]
Marcel Mauss’ classic study of The Gift introduced the principle of reciprocity, which has played a fundamental role in the evolution of modern social anthropology and critical theory. ... ... This presentation explains the theory of reciprocity, describes its implications and possible interpretations, and traces its influence on such contemporary theorists as Claude Levi-Strauss, Georges Bataille, Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-Paul Sartrre, Marshall Sahlins, and Boris Groys.
[u]Keynote 2[/u]
[b][size=20][url=http://www.vimeo.com/16647697][color=#000000]The Possibilities and Limitations of Open Content[/color][/size][/b][/url] by [b]Prof. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun[/b], [i]Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University[/i]
[url]http://www.vimeo.com/16647697[/url]
New media has made possible new “vernacular” archives of knowledge—from wikipedia to del.icio.us—that are challenging their standard top-down counterparts. These archives are usually either celebrated as democratizing knowledge, or condemned as destroying it. Refusing either of these positions, this talk asks: what does opening up content do? What does the open both make possible and close down? Is open content enough? How, in other words, should the open be the beginning rather than the end of the discussion?
More videos from Wikitopia will be uploaded soon. Stay tuned!
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Video documentation of the two brilliant keynotes are now online!
We invite you to watch and [url=http://www.facebook.com/videotage][color=#0000BF]'Like' us on facebook[/color][/url] if you enjoy these!
[u]Keynote 1[/u]
[url=http://www.vimeo.com/16462462][b][size=20][color=#000000]The Principle of Reciprocity[/color][/size][/b][/url] by [b]Dr. Hector Rodriguez[/b], [i]Associate Dean of School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong[/i]
[url]http://www.vimeo.com/16462462[/url]
Marcel Mauss’ classic study of The Gift introduced the principle of reciprocity, which has played a fundamental role in the evolution of modern social anthropology and critical theory. ... ... This presentation explains the theory of reciprocity, describes its implications and possible interpretations, and traces its influence on such contemporary theorists as Claude Levi-Strauss, Georges Bataille, Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-Paul Sartrre, Marshall Sahlins, and Boris Groys.
[u]Keynote 2[/u]
[b][size=20][url=http://www.vimeo.com/16647697][color=#000000]The Possibilities and Limitations of Open Content[/color][/size][/b][/url] by [b]Prof. Wendy Hui Kyong Chun[/b], [i]Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University[/i]
[url]http://www.vimeo.com/16647697[/url]
New media has made possible new “vernacular” archives of knowledge—from wikipedia to del.icio.us—that are challenging their standard top-down counterparts. These archives are usually either celebrated as democratizing knowledge, or condemned as destroying it. Refusing either of these positions, this talk asks: what does opening up content do? What does the open both make possible and close down? Is open content enough? How, in other words, should the open be the beginning rather than the end of the discussion?
More videos from Wikitopia will be uploaded soon. Stay tuned!
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