For the 11th Vital Capacities residency, we partner with Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network and Wysing Arts Centre to work with artists from the UK and Hong Kong. From 1 August, artists Chan Long Fung, Lazarus, Leah Clements, and Elora Kadir will join Vital Capacities to undertake research and develop new work. Over the month-long online residency, the artists will explore new ideas, connect across disciplines and geographies, and experiment within their digital studio spaces.
The artists for August 2025’s residency are:
Chan Long Fung, Lazarus, a new media artist from Hong Kong, fuses science, technology, and art to create visual experiences through sound, generative art, and data visualisations. His art interrogates the essence of natural and cultural phenomena, drawing on deep technological insight. During the residency, he will continue developing his series Stochastic Camera, delving into AI and the nature of creativity, consciousness, and automated seeing.
Leah Clements is an artist from and based in East London. Her work thinks about transcendence, affect, illness, and the other-worldly. It spans film, photography, performance, installation, sound, and other media. For this residency, she will be developing a new moving image work that draws on symbols from across time – ancient, medieval, and modern – reflecting her ongoing interest in moments of epiphany, transformation, and meaning-making through the lens of chronic illness and collective experience.
Elora Kadir is an artist based in London whose practice spans installation, drawing, photography, video, and found objects. Her work explores lived experiences of disability and how these intersect with the outside world – whether through navigating physical spaces, engaging with bureaucratic systems, or encountering subtle tensions and mismatches within an able-bodied society. During the residency, she will explore those small moments of friction where body and environment fail to align, experimenting with materials and language to make these dissonances visible.
An online exhibition showcasing work developed during the residency will be presented on vitalcapacities.com in September 2025.
Residency launches on 1 August 2025 – find out what the artists are up to by following their progress at: vitalcapacities.com and on Instagram: @vitalcapacities
Vital Capacities is an accessible, purpose-built digital residency space, that supports artists’ practice while engaging audiences with their work.
Vital Capacities has been created by videoclub in consultation with artists, digital inclusion specialist Sarah Pickthall and website designer Oli Pyle.
Vital Capacities 2025 residency is supported by Arts Council England.
