“Be My Guest is a live-performance, where all the participants, artists, performers and visitors gather at Videotage to become ‘distinguished guests’, balancing the fine line between intimacy within a social gathering, and the boundary between private space and public space.’” – Gabriela Jurkovic

On this year’s Thank You Art Day, Videotage is pleased to welcome Gabriela Jurkovic (Prague) to Hong Kong as the second FUSE:: Resident in 2010. Gabriela has spent more than a month in HK and is excited to bring the local art community two works from herself. Besides showing a video Be My Guest and a real-time installation The Bed, Gabriela will also share the projects she has done in Prague as an artist and as a curator.

On the same evening, Nana Seo and Hilda Chan from the team of Videotage will make a presentation on their recent trip to Berlin. They will talk about their experience at Transmediale.10, the new media art festival and the museums, art spaces and art works they’ve seen including Cloud Core Scanner, a cloud-generating machine exhibited at Schering Stiftung. On top of all these, Nana Seo will have a live chat with Christoph Fahle, Co-Founder of Betahaus (www.betahaus.de), a collaborative working space in Berlin, to share his knowledge on creative industry development in Berlin and more stories with Hong Kong.

Gabriela is a young artist and curator based in Prague, Czech Republic. Her current residency at Videotage is a video and new media art exchange between Central Europe and Hong Kong. While introducing the new media art scene in Central Europe to local audience, she is also researching on video and new media art in Hong Kong. At the end of the 5-month residency, Gabriela will produce an exhibition at Videotage presenting new media artists from Central Europe, while the research material about HK media art she compiles will be presented in Prague later on.

About the artists & betahaus

Gabriela Jurkovic
(Prague / Czech Republic)
Curator, artist, works with themes such as intimacy, perception of time, video-conferencing.
www.1g.cz

Maxime Vicaire
(Chatenay – Malabry / France)
VJ GARCON (www.hu2hu.eu), the author of the scenic projection
“Posedlost” (www.Posedlost.cz), an artist who works with green screens and chroma keying in real time.

betahaus is a co-working space newly opened in Berlin in March 2009. It offers a work space and a network platform between work and private sphere, where collaborative innovation and creativity are promoted. This unique place of new hub dedicates for creative people and new ways of collaboration. As a platform, it meets the demands of knowledge-based and creativity-based workers, and expands their opportunities in the process. betahaus is also hosting numerous brilliant programmes in the form of workshops, forums and creative events and is becoming a most active studio-of-choice in Germany’s creative capital.

Date: March 9, 2010 (Tuesday)
Time: 7:30pm – 10pm
Venue: Videotage
Address: Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong