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Still image from a film by SU-Hui-Yu, made in 2018 February 21, 2019 A mood board and sound mix of Taipei by Anne Duffau A- – -Z (the nomadic curatorial platform run by Anne Duffau) presents a mood board and a mix from a trip to Taipei with videoclub for Viewfinder. It is necessary to share some basic facts about Taipei and Taiwan, then to mention two favourite artworks (by Su Yu-Hsien & Su Hui-Yu) from our curatorial visit...
January 22, 2019 Highlights of Gwangju and Busan Biennales by Katie Yook The opportunity to travel to South Korea with videoclub came at a very timely moment in my curatorial career. I was about to open Phantom Limb (phantomlimb.info), an exhibition I co-curated with Kathy Cho at Cody Dock in East London that brought together Korean diaspora artists Dylan Mira, Jette Hye Jin Mortensen, Joan Oh, Tiffany...
December 10, 2018 Flashing Green: Notes on Post-Nature, the 11th Taipei Biennial by Marcus Jack ‘Mycelia can save the world’, artist and co-curator of this year’s Taipei Biennial, Mali Wu tells us with ardent optimism. Post-Nature – A Museum as an Ecosystem, curated alongside Francesco Manacorda, goes on to articulate this foundational belief by collating projects from artistic, filmic, activist, and architectural contexts that interpret this in degrees literal and...
November 25, 2018 Highlights of Busan Biennale – Abigail Addison This was my first visit to the Busan Biennale, and having been the day before to the vastly overpopulated Gwangju Biennale, the Busan Biennale curators’ choice of focusing on the work of just 66 artists meant that there was more breathing space to invest the necessary time to properly engage with the works and to...
November 22, 2018 Curator trip to Taiwan, Nov 18 The finale of our Viewfinder programme – a series of visits across East Asia with artists and curators to promote their work – takes us to Taiwan. While there we will be visiting Taiwan Biennial in Taichung, and Taipei Biennial. We will also be visiting one of the latest and most important sites for the...
July 31, 2018 Critical review of Selected VIII by writer James Gormley ‘Young man!’ booms the voice of a man in uniform. Disregard your age and gender; he’s talking to you and, with a realization too sudden to sink, you know it. ‘There’s no need to feel down’ he continues ‘I said young man, pick yourself off the ground.’ You can breathe a sigh of relief —...
June 14, 2018 Selected VIII at Whitechapel Gallery reviewed by Louie Young Since 2011, videoclub’s Selected programme has been showcasing witty, thought-provoking video art from Britain’s most exciting early career filmmakers. Now in its eighth edition, Selected is full of works that feel politically urgent in their choice of subject matter yet remain refreshingly playful in their treatment of it. For such a long running programme this...
December 11, 2017 Moritz Cheung on curating Ritual videoclub’s assistant curator Moritz Cheung writes about how he chose the works in Ritual – a programme of artists’ film and video from South East Asia showing in the UK Nov-Dec 2018. As curator, I wanted to bring together a programme that would invite audiences to walk through the mystical aspects of SE Asia; through...
November 23, 2017 A Triumph for Young Taiwanese Artists, a review by Samra Mayanja ‘Digital Break’ is a series of screenings bringing contemporary Taiwanese film and video to cities around the UK. Curated by videoclub; a platform for artists’ film, video and moving image based in Brighton, the selection bursts with poetic narratives that are both universal and specific to the Asian context. The pieces were curated from OSMOSIS, Taiwan’s...
August 14, 2017 Maximum Overdrive, a review by Louie Young It’s a lazy Sunday morning and you’re reading the news in bed. Or perhaps it’s Wednesday afternoon and you’re hurriedly scoffing away lunch in order to get back to the office in time for the next meeting. Little do you know, the world is about to change. Machines, household appliances and gadgets across the planet...
August 14, 2017 An interview with Hong Kong-based artist Choi Sai Ho An interview with Choi Sai Ho following his residency in Brighton in August 2016, and the making of his work Brighton is Our Playground, commissioned by videoclub and Royal Pavilion & Museums, for the exhibition Experimental Motion. Brighton is Our Playground was created using found footage from Screen Archive South East. To start off with,...
October 17, 2016 Seoul Mediacity, MMCA Film & Video, Doenjang-jjigae Seoul is an energetic, exciting city, with a lot going on; commercial galleries, large museums, and many private institutions, which are run as not-for-profit spaces. Artists’ moving image can be seen at most types of space, whether government funded or privately financed. Our first stop was at Seoul Mediacity Biennale at Seoul Museum of Art,...
January 19, 2016 Hong Kong: consulates, venues and collaborations As the first port of call and a place of recent collaboration and partnership, I wasn’t expecting to unfold such great opportunities in Hong Kong. Had some great meetings that really contributed to the development of Both Sides Now for 2016, and interesting information on venues/activity, including an educational exchange programme, a residency and super...
March 27, 2015 Kisses, picnics and film at Art Basel I don’t remember seeing much artists’ moving image at the art fairs during Art Basel Hong Kong, which struck me as a little strange, but I always feel strange at commercial art fairs. The shocking lighting, the mixture of appalling art work with some classic pieces that look like they should be in a museum....
October 31, 2014 Washington DC, Hillyer Art Space, the capital Hillyer Art Space, 15/05/14 This is my first time in DC and I’m surprised by how much I like it, the low rise buildings and handsome architecture, combined with the unavoidable sense of intrigue, make it feel warm and dynamic at the same time. Hillyer Art Space is centrally located at Dupont Circle, it sits...