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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...
December 5, 2020 Inside Your Body – exhibition Inside Your Body Inside Your Body is an exhibition of work created by Jaene F. Castrillon, Damien Robinson, Clifford Sage and Angela Su during a month-long online residency on Vital Capacities in November 2020.  Exhibition dates: From 7 December 2020 Exhibition site: vitalcapacities.com Angela Su has been participating in Videotage’s Minecraft residency, Leave Your Body,...
Black and white photo of a woman sits in a chair wearing black ruffled material, futuristically, fashionably cut. She wears stilts on her feet. The chair is ornate, in a palatial style, Edwardian possibly. Two nurses stand either side of the seated woman, stood behind two squared of dollar signs in white, which come to the tops of their thighs. Directly behind the woman is a bright white open doorway almost ceiling height. November 8, 2020 Peer to Peer: UK/HK – Artistic exchange in the time of global pandemic We are delighted to be part of Peer to Peer: UK/HK, a digital programme and platform encouraging meaningful cultural exchange and forging enduring partnerships between the UK and Hong Kong’s visual arts sectors. The programme coincides with Both Sides Now 6, our annual collaboration with Videotage in Hong Kong, which includes a residency exchange between...
October 31, 2020 New resident artists on Vital Capacities Our second residency programme on Vital Capacities brings together artists from the UK, Canada and Hong Kong, taking place between 2 Nov and 10 Dec 2020. Artists will be exploring ideas across the period, sharing work with audiences. The artists are: Jaene F. Castrillon Jaene F. Castrillon is an interdisciplinary film-based artist residing in Toronto,...
September 23, 2020 Interviews with resident artists on Vital Capacities The four artists who are participating in our first residency programme have been sharing their thoughts on participating, what they’re doing and their ideas on the work they make. Interviews can be seen in full on the Vital Capacities website, but here’s a glimpse in response to the question – “Can you say a little about...
Brightly coloured vertical lines waver in psychedelic fluorescent deep pink, ultraviolet purple and vibrant royal blue. September 17, 2020 Strangelove – ISOLATION DIVERSITY CLIMATE Earlier in 2020, we were invited by the Strangelove team to be one of five selectors, including Abigail Addison, James Collie, Chris Meigh-Andrews and the Strangelove Team, for their international open call programme. The programme, entitled ISOLATION / DIVERSITY / CLIMATE, is presented in 5 screening rooms online. Visitors and audiences can review, discuss and comment on...
September 1, 2020 Vital Capacities – digital residency launch 1 Sept Over the past three months we’ve been working with four artists – Seecum Cheung, Joey Holder, Daniel Locke and Romily Alice Walden to create a new purpose-built digital residency space, Vital Capacities. The aim of the project is to provide artists with time and space to develop ideas, while inviting audiences to engage with and...
A young woman wearing a dark blue dress with flowers looks away from the camera, her lips parted mid-singing. July 3, 2020 Yu Araki’s ‘Bivalvia: Act I’ showing online with God’s House Tower Yu Araki’s Bivalvia Act I showing as part of God’s House Tower’s Beside the Sea: Summer Screenings programme. We were invited to nominate a film by God’s House Tower in Southampton as part of their Beside the Sea: Summer Screenings programme. Throughout July, the Summer Screenings programme will explore how artists and filmmakers have been...
June 30, 2020 Selected X : interviews with artists Interviews with some of the artists in Selected X appear below. If you’d like to watch the film programme, click here.   Beverley Bennett‘s interview (Bennett’s film Amine is in Selected X): What was it that inspired your film? In 2016 the pioneering writer Claudia Rankine pronounced that ‘the invisibility of black women was astonishing.’ That...
Still image taken from the film O'Pierrot by filmmaker Tanoa Sasraku June 18, 2020 Selected X – online programme The Selected programme was established 10 years ago with the aims of supporting artist filmmakers to gain greater visibility and to bring new, diverse moving image work to audiences. Each year the artists who are shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award nominate artists who are earlier in their careers and from those nominations a...
June 16, 2020 Digital residency + space development Thanks to support from Arts Council England, we now have the resources to support four artists to participate in building a digital residency space with us. Over the next five months we’re going to develop an accessible, purpose-built digital residency platform, collaborating with four artists to create a space that supports their practice, while engaging...