Both Sides Now II: Exhibition at V Art Center, Shanghai彼岸觀自在II：展覽 (視界藝術中心, 上海)
Both Sides Now 2 attempts, through moving image works, to explore national identity and culture, and to raise questions about both China & Hong Kong and the UK. Comparisons between both countries arise – revolution and referendum, richness and austerity, lions and tigers. And unicorns.
Both Sides Now 2 – It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times is the second phase of a long-term project that proposes (historical) re-readings of artists’ moving image from Hong Kong, China and the UK. By selecting video works of art, animations and documentary films, produced by Hong Kong and UK artists from 1989 to 2014, the project will reinterpret the experience of here and now by looking into the potentially excluded and forgotten moving images of Hong Kong.
In the new edition, videoclub (UK) and Videotage (HK) bring together internationally-recognised artists from the fields of video and film during a several month-long programme from June – August 2015. To build on the ideas posited from the success of Both Sides Now – Somewhere between Hong Kong and the UK, 15 art organisations in the UK, China and Hong Kong will take part in various extensive screenings, exhibitions and artists-in-residence programmes.
The programme includes work by: David Blandy, Lucy Clout, Choi Sai Ho, Jo Law, Rachel Maclean, Joao Vasco Paiva, Ellen Pau, Wong Ping, Daniel Shanken, Ben Rivers.
彼岸觀自在II:最好的時代，最壞的時代? 就借用各類流動的影像去探討及反思中國、香港、英國三地的身分認同及文化問題。中、港、英三地遇到的問題其實都是息息相關。無論是政治上的變革或公投，經濟上的富裕和緊縮，到國家的象徵如英國的獅子（或應加上蘇格蘭的獨角獸？）和中國的龍–也都是似曾相識。
彼岸觀自在II是錄映太奇與英國方面長期合作項目的第二階段，旨在從歷史的角度重讀中國、香港和英國三地的流動影像作品。彼岸觀自在II挑選了港英兩地藝術家於1989年至2014年間創作的錄像藝術、動畫及紀錄片。有些作品也許早被社會主流排斥或遺忘，但卻可以為重新解讀三地此刻的社會現實提供嶄新的視角。
在這為期數月（2015年7月至12月）的活動中，錄映太奇及英國的videoclub將會與一眾國際知名的錄像藝術家們合作。如同之前大獲好評的 彼岸觀自在I:這麼近那麼遠一樣，將會有多達十五個來自中國、香港、英國的團體參與放映會、展覽及駐場藝術家的活動。
藝術家包括: David Blandy, Lucy Clout, Rachel Maclean, Daniel Shanken, Ben Rivers
event details /
Preview opening date and time: 15 August 2015, 6:00pm
Exhibition dates: 15-30 August 2015
Address: Space 1 (view point) : 2F, Building 3, No.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai 200060
開幕: 2015年8月15, 下午6:00
展覽日期: 2015年8月15 – 30日
地址: Space 1 (view point) : 2F, Building 3, No.50 Moganshan Rd, Shanghai 200060