Connective Videos: Berlin - Hong Kong 4/6錄像連線：柏林 - 香港 4/6
Connective Videos: Berlin – Hong Kong 4/6
A collaborative showcase of the Videoart at Midnight Edition (Berlin) and the Videotage Media Art Collection (Hong Kong) video art collections
Two veteran and pioneering video artists, Klaus vom Bruch (Berlin) and Ellen Pau (Hong Kong), will join forces in Connective Video 4/6, manifesting their unique vision in video-making side by side. Vom Bruch is famous for his mediation and re-contextualisation between personal and national, banal and historical; two of his selected videos in Connective Video 4/6, Das Alliertenband and Das Duracellband, exemplify this trait succinctly. By intercutting between commercial, close-up of the artist himself and World War Two footage, vom Bruch effectively challenges the commonplace point of view in understanding the past. On the other hand, Time without End, a re-working of a less than thirty seconds clip from the Hollywood film Leave Her to Heaven, reveals a rather humorous and playful side of vom Bruch’s video practice.
Though living in a city with entirely different culture and tradition, Ellen Pau’s videos share thematic and stylistic similarities with the vom Bruch’s. Diversion and Song of the Goddess utilize existing visual material, archival footage of a swimming contest in the 1960s in the former and excerpts of a Yam Kim-fai/ Bak Shuet Sin film in the latter, to negotiate with the complicated colonial past and the ambiguous sexuality representation in popular entertainment respectively. Drained II, comparable to vom Bruch’s Time Without End in terms of the novelty in video language, demonstrates Pau’s ability in transforming an unimpressive bit of footage into a breathtaking visual experimentation with the aid of the latest editing technology. Years after the completion of her early videos, as we can see in her 2003 video For Some Reasons and 2010 video Fanfare for the Common People, Pau’s inventiveness and sensitivity in appropriating visual element from various existing sources are as sharp as ever.
Connective Videos
Connective Videos: Berlin – Hong Kong is a new collaborative platform between Germany and Hong Kong, curated by Olaf Stüber (Videoart at Midnight, Berlin) and Isaac Leung (Videotage, Hong Kong), presented by Goethe-Institut Hongkong. The project encompasses the video art collections of the Videoart at Midnight Edition and the Videotage Media Art Collection. In multiple screenings throughout 2018, Connective Videos aims to learn, compare, and reimagine compelling stories told by various German and Hong Kong artists. It will consider histories across various geographical spaces and offer insights into our existing knowledge of video art production and archival practices.
錄像連線： 柏林 – 香港 4/6
錄映太奇媒體藝術收藏（VMAC）及Videoart at Midnight Edition的錄像藝術藏品展示
第四回「錄像連線」放映將會呈獻兩位錄像藝術的先驅者及資深藝術家──Klaus vom Bruch(柏林)及鮑藹倫(香港)──的精選作品。德國藝術家Klaus vom Bruch的作品主要對個人和國家身份作分析和在平庸及歷史之間建立關聯，是次放映的兩個作品《Das Alliertenband》及《Das Duracellband》便能引證。透過將電視廣告、藝術家本人的特寫鏡頭及第二次世界大戰的片段反覆轉切，vom Bruch成功地挑戰了一般人面對歷史的態度。在《Time without End》中，vom Bruch將電影《難測婦人心》不到三十秒的片段重新剪接，表現了他創作上幽默和俏皮的一面。雖然生活在一個完全不同文化和傳統的城市，鮑藹倫的錄像作品與vom Bruch的主題和風格亦有相似之處。《兩頭唔到岸》和《似是故人來》均以現成的映像及庫存影片為創作素材，前者取材香港政府檔案處所從六十年代保存下來的維港渡海泳紀錄片段，後者則是香港粵劇名伶任劍輝﹑白雪仙合演的《李後主》電影片段，分別反映香港複雜的殖民歲月和性別/性向在大眾媒體中含糊不清的呈現。《借頭借路II》獨特的映像語言可以與vom Bruch的《Time without End》互相比較，同樣以本來看似平平無奇的素材，鮑氏將其剪接成一段令人屏息的實驗性錄像。除了她的早期作品，2003年的《為了某些原因》及2010年的《阿運會》亦能展示鮑氏處理視覺元素的創造力及敏感度。
event details /
Time: 28.06.2018 (THU) 19:00
Venue: Black Box Studio, Goethe-Institut Hongkong
Presenter: Goethe-Institut Hongkong
Co-curator: Olaf Stüber (Videoart at Midnight, Berlin), David Chan (Videotage, Hong Kong)
*The screening and the post-screening discussion will be moderated by Isaac Leung and David Chan.
Screening Titles
Berlin: Klaus vom Bruch
Alliiertenband (1982), 10’43”
Duracell Tape (1980), 9’55”
Time Without End (1996 / 2017), 6’39”
Hong Kong: Ellen Pau
Drianed II (1989), 05’40”
Diversion (1990), 05’30”
Song of the Goddess (1992), 06’50”
For Some Reasons (2003), 05’12”
Fanfare for the Common People (2010), 04’20”
地點: 香港灣仔港灣道2號香港藝術中心14樓香港歌德學院黑盒劇場
主辦: 香港歌德學院
聯合策展人: Olaf Stüber（Videoart at Midnight，柏林）、梁學彬 （錄映太奇，香港）
放映片目
柏林: Klaus vom Bruch
Alliiertenband (1982), 10’43”
Duracell Tape (1980), 9’55”
Time Without End (1996 / 2017), 6’39”
香港：鮑藹倫
《借頭借路II》, 1989, 05’40”
《兩頭唔到岸》, 1990, 05’30”
《似是故人來》, 1992, 06’50”
《為了某些原因》, 2003, 05’12”
《阿運會》, 2010, 04’20”