PAST- EXHIBITION TESTERS |
June 21-July 9, 2009 XLIEUXOpens Saturday, June 20, 2009 // See archive for details [link...]
May 24-30, 2009 Opened on May 24 @ 7:00pm with artists' talk Two videos recently featured at the Athens Video Art Festival (Greece) will be shown at Experimenta with a short talk by the two artists: See archive for details [link...] Blow by Hector RodriguezBeing is becoming...
Wide Rothko by Vasco Paiva
May 16-21, 2009 Meat.data: confessions of an internet porn junkie ...opening tonightan interactive digital installation by IP Yuk-yiu opening on Friday, May 15, 2009 @ 8:00pm, Experimenta (casual reception party) / opens daily 5:00-8:00pm, May 16-21, 2009
March 23 - May 3, 2009 Who’s Afraid of Rights, Art, and the Left? - curated by Ann Liu
January 26 - March 7, 2009 A 3-part art event in the form of a curatorial game as art, experimenting with the space of EXPERIMENTA using Linda Lai's existing video works as ingredients... gina looked at annie, annie wanted to run, when suddenly annie gets the feeling she's being surrounded by
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Our labour, their homes - The video installation is of the (video) piece, Linda Lai’s Our home, their labor, placed within a setting constructed with a ladder leaning on a side wall, a fire extinguisher, a bare (and lit) light bulb, cans of paint, trash, and a few scattered paint brushes and rollers on a simple white bench. the installation is situated at the very front of the space, right behind the glass window and door entrance of Experimenta, so it can be seen clearly by passers-by on the street outside. read vis-à-vis the closed doors and minimal lighting, the scene the installation alludes to is a site that is currently a work-in-progress; a site that is under construction. the video, put on repeat, and thus shown playing again and again, shows workers moving furniture and other objects around during the day in an apartment (well-lit by natural light), which read together with the context the installation provides proves itself to be an ironic scene; a virtual pair of workers are on-site, perpetually moving, yet never actually making progress, and not working towards an opening of the (presently closed) space. formerly, without the installation, and read just against the title of the piece (‘our home, their labor’), the tone of the work might be read as sympathetic (to the workers) and socio-economically conscious, this video installation, however, opens up a different reading of the original work similar as to how zhang pei li’s ‘Last Words,’ in which zhang loops film footage of revolutionary heroes dying in the end of old Chinese movies, did for the films he quotes and extracts from. any effect the video installation enacts, though, should not be read as the ultimate and best interpretation of the original work nor particularly the artist’s intention, rather the installation is an institutional critique on the practice of art spaces which direct their exhibitions by attempting to showcase the artist’s work(s) in-the-best-light-possible yet as decorative objects (for private homes) only – discursively renaming the piece, “our labour, their homes”. (Ann Liu) -------------------------------------------------------------- Part 2
"Linda in the afternoon" -- a work on relational aesthetics / Ann Liu / until Feb 28, 2009 // "Linda in the Afternoon" features two short video works by Linda Lai, Chair Talks and I Told Them My Camera Was On (2005). The programme starts with some refreshment on Lyndhurst Terrace. The audience then walks with a host from Experimenta to seats situated in the upper corner of Experimenta where they will watch the two films back to back in one sitting. Screening time for the two films will be 30 minutes in total, therefore please reserve at least an hour for each appointment. This programme seeks to provide a context that will at once both elucidate and complicate an audience’s reception of these two video works. Think of a perfumed concert stadium, think Barbara Cartland’s Book of Useless Information, think of Proust’s Madeleine, think of Felix Gonzalez Torres’s Untitled (Para un Hombre en Uniforme) and walks that lasts an hour and leaves you with pools of sweat at the back of your knees. Or don’t. The point is the subjective and cumulative experience of multiple locations which the visitor brings to the viewing of the prepared video works; it doesn’t matter if you intend to get rid of the memory of those experiences or if you plan to mix it with the experience of watching the two video works. (Ann Liu) Chair Talks (5 mins.) does not explain my love for chairs, but is the very articulation of such unfathomable indulgence, a focused attempt to apply minimal structure to carry forth the unspeakable power of things and objects beyond the service of signification for the world of humans. I told them my camera was on (25 mins.) seeks for a structure that holds together video fragments of 13 women collected in my video diary. It subverts mainstream causal narrative logic and shows 13 women’s stories as a network of acquaintances (with me in the centre) based on the rule of playful chain-connectivity. I show each woman in an isolated moment of her life, thus questioning the necessity of an epic approach and structuralist depth-hermeneutics. Instead, a composite story made up of women from diverse backgrounds is invented. (Linda Lai) ----------------------------------------------- Part 3 "Framed"
this week has been a difficult week setting up the space a performance was given on monday, tuesday, and wednesday the set-up is complete now this saturday march 7 come to Experimenta a little place, a place called space and then next door to Visage and do the watusi yeah do the watusi, do the watusi… Time: 2030 |
