A new exchange programme co-organised by Videotage and Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA). Aiming to encourage the cultural exchange between Hong Kong’s and Manchester’s artists and audience, the 6-week residency supports contemporary artists and practitioners working with moving image and/or new media in their research and production of new artworks. The 2019 residency has started with UK-based artist Bahar Noorizadeh and Hong Kong-based artist Andrew Luk as the artist in residence in Hong Kong and Manchester, UK respectively from July to August 2019.

HK Artist-in-residence@CFCCA – Andrew Luk

Andrew Luk is a Hong Kong artist whose material-based practice of creating installations, sculptures, and images investigates how civilization regards itself in relation to nature by way of examining human projects as well as studying naturally occurring systems of entropy, anti-entropy, and preservation. Time, in regards to history, memory, and experience, is utilized as a medium; selectively enhancing and detracting value by reconfiguring both fictional and factual material histories and composing arrangements that mitigate the difference between the man-made and the naturally occurring. The aim is to draw connections between entities and discover new narratives.

Andrew Luk studied a dual degree in Fine Art and European History at the New England School of Art & Design and at Suffolk University in Boston. Since then he has exhibited in The United States, Hong Kong, and Korea. In 2014 he was the recipient of the HKADC Emerging Artist Grant and in 2015 he had a solo exhibition, No Fixed Abode, at Videotage. In addition to co-organizing several artist run events and exhibitions, he recently he has exhibited as part of a group show, The Imaginary Order, at Gallery Exit, and received a HKADC project grant for a year long collaborative digital preservation and gaming project, “Autosave: Smuggler’s Ridge & The Shing Mun Redoubt”.

UK Artist-in-residence@Videotage – Bahar Noorizadeh

Bahar Noorizadeh is an artist, writer and filmmaker. She works on the reformulation of hegemonic time narratives as they collapse in the face of speculation: philosophical, financial, legal, futural, etc. Her work has appeared in the Tate Modern Artists’ Cinema Program; Berlinale Forum Expanded; Biennale of Moving Images, Geneva; Toronto International Film Festival; Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art; Beirut Art Center, and Mercer Union, Toronto; among others. Noorizadeh is a founding member of BLOCC (Building Leverage over Creative Capitalism), a research and education platform that proposes pedagogy as strategy, to alter the relationship between Contemporary Art and the planetary phenomena of urban renewal and social cleansing. Her current research examines the intersections of finance, Contemporary Art and emerging technology, building on the notion of “Weird Economies” to precipitate a cross-disciplinary approach to economic futurism and post-financialization imaginaries. She is pursuing this work as a PhD candidate in Art Practice+Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London.

錄映太奇X英國曼徹斯特華人藝術中心藝術家駐留計劃 2019

錄映太奇X英國曼徹斯特華人藝術中心（CFCCA）藝術家駐留計劃2019是由錄映太奇和CFCCA共同合辦的新交流計劃之一。計劃開放予從事新媒體、影像創作的英國及香港當代藝術家參與，旨在促進兩地的文化交流和合作，為駐留藝術家提供實踐創作和展出的機會。英國藝術家Bahar Noorizadeh 和香港藝術家陸浩明（Andrew Luk)將於7月至8月分別前往香港和英國參與為期六週的駐留。

香港駐留藝術家@CFCCA – 陸浩明

香港藝術家陸浩明是一位擅長使用不同物料為基礎進行創作，包括裝置、雕塑和圖像等，透過作品探究人類文明對自己與自然之間關係的詮釋，尤其感興趣於自然產生的熵變和存留過程。「時間」，被用作為關於歷史，記憶和經歷之間的媒介；隨著重整虛構及客觀存在的物件的歷史，並模糊人為與自然之間的界限，選擇性地把萬物的價值增減。最終目的旨在與實體之間建立聯繫並發掘新的敘事。

陸浩明畢業於新英格蘭藝術與設計學院（NESAD）及波士頓薩福克大學，雙修藝術及歐洲歷史。畢業後曾在美國、香港及韓國展出。2014年，陸氏獲得香港藝術發展局（HKADC）的新苗資助，及後2015年於錄映太奇舉辦個展《No Fixed Abode》。 他曾與多個藝術家合作舉行活動和展覽，最近參與安全口畫廊的新晉藝術家群展《The Imaginary Order》，再次獲得HKADC的計劃資助，進行關於數位保存和遊戲製作的合作項目《Autosave: Smuggler’s Ridge & The Shing Mun Redoubt》。

英國駐留藝術家@錄映太奇 – Bahar Noorizadeh

Bahar Noorizadeh為一位藝術家、作家和影像創作者，其作品曾於Tate Modern、柏林國際影展論壇延展單元、日內瓦動態影像雙年展、多倫多國際電影節及巴塞隆拿當代藝術博物館等多地展出。她同時是Building Leverage over Creative Capitalism（BLOCC）的創始人，致力研究並推動以教育學為策略，藉此改變當代藝術與全球性城市重建及社會清洗現象之間的關係。 Noorizadeh現為倫敦大學金匠學院藝術實踐與理論的博士生，目前正探究金融、當代藝術和新興技術之間的連結: 以「不可思議的經濟學」作題，透過一個跨學科的方法看待經濟未來主義和後金融化時期的想像。

VIDEOTAGE X CFCCA ARTIST RESIDENCY 2019

Residency Period: 15 July – 30 August 2019

錄映太奇X英國曼徹斯特華人藝術中心藝術家駐留計劃 2019

駐留日期：2019年7月15日至8月30日