Date: 29 May 2022
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Co-curators: Myra Chan, John Chow, Chung Wing Shan, Kyle Chung, Aaron Lam & Angel Leung
Co-Presented by Videotage & Art Basel HK
Curatorial Statement:
In the third year of Covid-19, the “new normal” has become just plain normal. Working from home and online conferences are now parts of our daily lives. Travel restrictions and lockdowns are no longer as shocking as they used to be. When technology advances in the pandemic, it shortens the geographical distances, but our mobility seems to shrink as the illuminated screen promises to take us anywhere in the world.In the early 20th century, the Futurism art movement was born to celebrate speed and newly-found mobility from groundbreaking inventions such as cars and aeroplanes. A hundred years later, the further developed technology brings us back home in front of our desks, telling us that moving from one place to another is unnecessary, and can even be luxurious during a pandemic or a war.Can our natural instinct for mobility be fulfilled by an imaginary one? Selected from the Videotage Media Art Collection, the eight artworks in Birds without Legs explore the artists’ interpretation of physical and mental mobility from the late 70s to nowadays.
- Theodora Barat
- Mark Chan Kam Lok
- Hao Jingban
- Lai Chun-ling
- Jamsen Law
- Ellen Pau
- Virtue Village
- Danny Yung