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July 20, 2021 Intertwined exhibition on Vital Capacities Intertwined is our new exhibition on Vital Capacities, presenting new works by resident artists – Seo Hye Lee, Laura Lulika and Linda Stupart. The works have been commissioned in collaboration with our partners: Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), Phoenix and University of Salford Art Collection. Intertwined opens on 22 July. See the exhibition now...
Image of a black rectangular lightbox with a white screen has the word what with a question mark written 3 times on it, black pipes leave the box on the left and right sides. June 2, 2021 Interview & intro video with artist Seo Hye Lee Introduction video by Seo Hye Lee, resident artist on Vital Capacities, June 2021 Transcript for Seo Hye Lee introduction video Interview with Seo Hye Lee, resident artist on Vital Capacities Jamie Wyld (Vital Capacities’ Director): Thanks for being part of the Vital Capacities residency programme! Can you say a little about yourself and your work,...
Three images in a composite – top left image: a black rectangular lightbox with a white screen has the word what with a question mark written 3 times on it, black pipes leave the box on the left and right sides. Top right image: a white heart shaped balloon has the words stay sick written in the middle. Bottom left image: a collage of green leaves, white daisies with yellow centres, and stripes of yellow and red streak across the image. May 29, 2021 Artists from across UK join Vital Capacities as artists-in-residence For June 2021’s Vital Capacities’ residency, we are collaborating with Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), Phoenix and University of Salford Art Collection. Working with three artists from across the UK, Seo Hye Lee, Laura Lulika and Linda Stupart. Across June, artists will be researching and developing new work, with work commissioned in collaboration...
May 21, 2021 Vital Capacities – A Train to Utopia Digital Workshop by Tzu-Huan Lin Digital workshop on Mozilla’s immersive platform Hubs – imagining and building Utopia by Vital Capacities artist, Tzu-Huan Lin   A Train to Utopia is a digital workshop taking place on Mozilla Hubs led by artist, Tzu-Huan Lin. Questionning Utopia’s existence (and if we can create it), the workshop explores ideas related to this unknown but longed...
A video still from Tzu Huan Lin’s Let Me Inside You – a horse with 3 heads flies through the sky, 3 disembodied hands holding mobile phones are also in the sky. The sky is blue with white lines flowing through it. May 12, 2021 Interview with Tzu Huan Lin, Vital Capacities resident artist Jamie Wyld (Vital Capacities’ director): Thanks for being part of the Vital Capacities residency programme! Can you say a little about yourself and your work, perhaps in relation to what you’re thinking about doing during the residency? Hello Jamie, My name is Tzu-Huan Lin, I am a Taiwanese immigrant artist who lives and works in Brooklyn....
A figure stands reflected in front of a large mirror, showing the person from the waist up. They wear a rose-pink satin negligee, pink fur bra, fishnet vest and shiny black elbow length gloves. They have long pale pink hair and have pink mirrored futuristic sunglasses on. A black fishnet is wrapped tight over their face. The room they are in looks luxurious, with a decorative cream frame to the mirror, and long white and pink drapes against the wall in background. The image is taken from artists film, Broken Hearts Hotel by Katarzyna Perlak. May 4, 2021 Interview wth Katarzyna Perlak, Vital Capacities resident artist Jamie Wyld (Vital Capacities’ director): Thanks for being part of the Vital Capacities residency programme! Can you say a little about yourself and your work, perhaps in relation to what you are thinking about doing during the residency? My practice engages moving image, performance, sound, installation and textiles and explores the intersection of politics and feelings,...
Three digitised figures appear from a digital background. The background waves of digital data, in pink and green, all on a black background. The figures are also waves of data, two are in electric blue and green, the other an off white colour. May 1, 2021 Interview with Vishal Kumaraswamy, Vital Capacities resident artist Jamie Wyld (videoclub & Vital Capacities’ director): Thanks for being part of the Vital Capacities residency programme! Can you say a little about yourself and your work? Vishal Kumaraswamy: Hi, my name is Vishal Kumaraswamy I’m a Bangalore based Artist & Filmmaker. Within my practice, I work across AI, text, video, sound and performance and...
April 18, 2021 New international resident artists on Vital Capacities Artists’ work from top left, clockwise: Katarzyna Perlak, Vishal Kumaraswamy and Tzu Huan Lin We will be delivering our third residency programme on Vital Capacities – bringing together artists from UK/Poland, India and Taiwan, which will take place throughout May 2021. Artists will be experimenting with ideas, developing new projects and sharing work with audiences....
A bonfire on the beach of a large lake at sunrise, blue skies with an orange morning glow in the distance. March 12, 2021 Vital Capacities in Disability Arts International Disability Arts International spoke to videoclub and Vital Capacities’ director, Jamie Wyld about the development and inspiration behind Vital Capacities. Read the article in Disability Arts International.
Bright cut up patterns float in space, rich oranges, reds, blues, yellow - in the front is a patchy area of deep lime green. March 9, 2021 VisionMix: Loss & Transience 2 – film programme and artists VisionMix: Loss & Transience 2 Loss & Transience 2 brings together the work of five contemporary artists/filmmakers who are living and working in India today, and artists of Indian heritage based internationally.  Watch the films now, click here. The films are linked by their protagonists’ state of transience at key moments within the films providing...
March 9, 2021 VisionMix: Loss & Transience 2 – curators and artist’s talk  Webinar: Curators and artist’s talk – VisionMix: Loss & Transience 2 The talk took place on 20 March 2021. Loss & Transience curators (VisionMix), Lucía Imaz King and Rashmi Sawhney introduce the exhibition with videoclub director, Jamie Wyld. Followed byartists, Gigi Scaria and Mochu talking about their work. Find out more about the Loss &...
March 9, 2021 VisionMix: Loss & Transience – curators and artists’ talk hosted by Hong-Gah Museum Artists and curators’ talk delivered by Hong-Gah Museum Date: Saturday 27 March Time: 11:00 – 12:30 (UK), 16:30 – 18:00 (India) and 19:00 – 20:30 (Taiwan) Link: for talk with Hong-Gah Museum Join for an introduction to the exhibition, Loss & Transience, with Zoe Yeh (Director, Hong-Gah Museum), Lucía Imaz King & Rashmi Sawhney. Followed...
January 16, 2021 Artists – Both Sides Now 6: Viral Futures videoclub and Videotage (Hong Kong) are excited to present Both Sides Now 6: Viral Futures, the latest edition of our long-term annual project. This edition aims to reflect on life with/after COVID-19 and explores how viruses continually affect our present and future. With events including digital residencies, physical and online screenings, and talks from November...
January 13, 2021 Both Sides Now 6: Viral Futures – online exhibitions videoclub and Videotage (Hong Kong) are excited to present Both Sides Now 6: Viral Futures, the latest edition of our long-term annual project. This edition aims to reflect on life with/after COVID-19 and explores how viruses continually affect our present and future. With events including digital residencies, physical and online screenings, and talks from November...
A contemporary, comic-book style illustration of two men with bald heads kissing while wearing grey neckerchiefs. In the background the sky is an apocalyptic orange, yellow and white. December 22, 2020 Both Sides Now 6: Viral Futures – screening in Hong Kong videoclub and Videotage (Hong Kong) are excited to present Both Sides Now 6: Viral Futures, the latest edition of our long-term annual project. This edition aims to reflect on life after COVID-19 and explores how viruses continually affect our present and future. With events including digital residencies, physical and online screenings, and talks from November...