[rohrpost] VIDEO CIRCLE HONGKONG

VIDEO CIRCLE HONGKONG

wurden die Arbeiten folgender deutscher Künstler ausgewählt:

Hartmut Jahn: Monuments in Move

Walter Gramming: ohne Titel

Veit-Lup: Finishing Lines

Maria Vedder: Berlin, 21.6.1996

Antal Lux: Lights of Night

Ana C.Fernandez: I Ging Body

Premiere: 3. November 2000 in HongKong

Ort: 1 - Festival centre in Central Hongkong und
2 - HK airport

The Video Circle 2000

composes of a video art installation exhibition and a live performance program inside the installation. The project involves participation of one hundred and twenty artists from all over the world. The installation, installed in a gallery space of about 16 x16 meters, is composed of 32 sets of televisions and video players arranged in a circle with the monitors facing inward. In-between the monitors are gaps approximately the width of monitors, making the circumference composed of 64 "elements" 32 virtual images on screens, and 32 gaps providing the pathway for viewers to enter the circle. The 64 criss-crossing of the "Real" and "Virtual" arrangement is derived and inspired from one of the oldest Chinese classic on communication: Book of Change (Yi Ching.) The live performance program is to be held inside the Video Circle setting while the audience watch from the surrounding outside the circle.

Video Circle 2000 Installation Exhibition

The program is initiated and coordinated in Hong Kong, while twenty curators from twelve cities are invited to curate six works each from his/her city. Participants of this program thus include international artists coming from Beijing, Bangkok, Macau, Manila, Shanghai, Seoul, Shenzhen, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo, Vancouver and Hong Kong, producing a total length of 360 minutes of Asian Pacific Experience. The total number of 120 pieces of video will be shown in six successive programs, each of which consists of 20 pieces and lasts for around 60 minutes.

Participating curators of the Installation Program include:

1. Beijing Leng Lin

2. Bangkok Gridthyia Gaveewong

3. Macau Albert Chu

4. Manila Sid Hildawa

5. Seoul Sin Cha Hong

6. Shanghai Zhang Xian

7. Shenzhen Xiong Yuan-wei

8. Singapore Tan Kay-ngee

9. Taipei Wang Jun Jieh

10. Taipei Wei Ying Chuan

11. Tokyo Tadashi Uchino

12. Vancouver Paul Wong

13. Hong Kong Desmond Hui

14. Hong Kong Connie Lam

15. Hong Kong Lam Hiu-tung

16. Hong Kong Fion Ng

17. Hong Kong Eric Poon

Video Circle 2000 Performing Arts Program As the spinning dynamic of the video circle installation brings a sense of presence into the presentation of the virtual images, the installation setting becomes a "theatre" space itself. The introduction of the Live Performance program highlights the here-and-now present impact of the art work. At the same time, the Video Circle provides a ever-mutating drifting backdrop for the performances. "Real" performance and "virtual" video images thus create a different level of contrast and interaction.

Ten performing artists from seven cities: Beijing, Chengdu, Hong Kong, Macau, Seoul, Shenzhen and Tokyo are invited to take part in the Video Circle Live Performance program. Each of them is invited to create a 20-minute video work for the video circle and perform inside the circle of his/her own video environment.

Performance artists include :

1. Beijing ZHU Ming

2. Chengdu TIEN Men-sha

3. Hong Kong Edwin LUNG

4. Macau Jane LEI

5. Seoul PARK Hobin

6. Seoul / Beijing Sin Cha Hong / Beijing Dance Academy (TBC)

7. Shenzhen/Hong Kong XIONG Yuanwei / TANG Shu-wing

8. Tokyo Shimizu SHINJIN

The performing arts section will be arranged in separate program over the weekends during the video circle exhibition. Each program will be composed of three teams of artists work.

International Tour of the Program The program is proposed to be open in Hong Kong in April 2000 at the Exposition Hall of HKUST for four weeks. It will be the highlight of the Hong Kong 4th Journey 2000 International Festival. Later, the program will be presented in Berlin as the major event of Hong Kong in Berlin Festival in August 2000 celebrating the Festival of Vision -- One Vision Two Cities Project. All together there are 9 venues in 8 cities proposed for the touring in 2000:

April Hong Kong HKUST Expo Hall

May Macau Cultural Centre Museum

May Shenzhen Shenzhen University (TBC)

June London The M Dome

August Berlin House of Culture of the World (HK Festival)

September Copenhagen DCCD (TBC)

October Seoul Seoul National Arts Center (ASEM mtg) (TBC)

November Hong Kong Central Library (New) ChekLapKok Airport (TBC)

December Tokyo Sprial Hall (Tokyo International Arts Fest.) (TBC)