The Solitude of Jing Hua is a performance-based installation created by Julia Burns, Videotage’s fuse:: resident, together with co-artist Enrica Ho.

Set in a factory context, the central character, Jing Hua, embodies the insecurities and fears of a forty year old woman searching for youth and stereotypical beauty. Her search is deeper than vanity; instead, it stems from the fear of solitude in old age. The Solitude of Jing Hua reflects the epidemic of low self esteem among modern women.

Julia Burns (b. 1982, Sydney, Australia) Raised as an expatriate in South East Asia and the United States, Julia is especially interested in the demographic and sociological underpinnings of the cities in which she resides. In the past, Julia has made works about issues related to Status Anxiety, Loss of Privacy, and Self-doubt. These themes are unspoken feelings that she thinks all people, across all countries, battle with. Inspired by her own concerns, she looks at how they apply within a sociological context. In 2010 she won the Freeman Foundation Traveling Scholarship and the FUSE Videotage Residency Grant. In 2009 she won the Marrickville Culture and Arts Grant. She has shown at the Australia Council for the Arts and her work is currently touring with d/Lux/Media/Arts. Her artwork will tour throughout the AsiaPacific region with the Experimenta and AsiaLink New Media Biennale, ‘Selectively Revealed’ from 2011 – 2013.
http://juliaburns.com

Enrica Ho (b. 1983, Hong Kong) graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2004 with BSc (Hons) Construction Economics and Management, after which she started participating in art and design activities. In 2008, she was invited by The Hong Kong Youth Federation of Youth Groups to design products for “You Are What You Wear” youth design project, which were sold in the Hong Kong Book Fair 2008. Enrica will soon graduate from BA (Hons) in Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong. In Spring 2010, an overseas exchange program enabled her to study photography, video, new media and sound art at The University of Illinois, Chicago. She is ecstatic over the transformation and fusion, and hopes to combine sciences and arts; sense and sensibility; analog and digital forms in her artworks. She believes that art at the first level is for self-expression, second level for connecting with the viewers, and third level with society.
http://www.enricaho.com/