Inner Voices and Exterior Visions is a two-day film programme curated by Hera Chan, Alvin Li, and Yang Li, that brings together recent work by artists who adopt languages and strategies from pop culture to reflect on its entanglement with social, political, and cosmological events.
As part of Exterior: The Science of Collective Consciousness, the narrator of the selected works shifts from human outer shells to hybrid other-than-human forms. Playfully, the works help us think about what we consider to be outside of us or on the exterior. This includes bringing together found footage and original footage about history, social media, and civilization myths.
Li Shuang's ÆTHER (Poor Objects) amalgamates disparate footage that include a solar eclipse with images brightened by ring lights, a lighting tool used by social media influencers and vloggers.
Yin-Ju Chen's Extrastellar Evaluations III : Entropy : 25800 contemplates human civilization and humanity’s future through an investigation of space physics, extraterrestrial myths, and cosmography.
Chulayarnnon Siriphol's ANG48 is the synthesis of several Asian film history archives—born as an intelligent mechanical operating system of 48 members—taking the form of a half-human and half-golden snail.
Introduction
Li Shuang ÆTHER (Poor Objects) 2021, HD video, colour, sound, 19 min, English with English subtitles
Yin-Ju Chen Extrastellar Evaluations III : Entropy : 25800 2018, HD video, colour, sound, 17 min, Chinese with Chinese and English subtitles
Chulayarnnon Siriphol ANG28 2022, HD video, colour, sound, 25 min, Thai with English subtitles
Yin-Ju Chen
Yin-Ju Chen (b. 1977, Taiwan) interprets social power and history through cosmological systems. Utilizing astrology, sacred geometries, and alchemical symbols, she considers human behavior, nationalism, imperialism, state violence, totalitarianism, utopian formations, and collective thinking. Recently, she has been exploring the material effects of spiritual, Buddhism and shamanic practices and the metaphysical potentialities of consciousness.
Li Shuang
Li Shuang (b. 1990, China) work is situated in globalized communication systems and inspired by various localities and uneven information flows. Her work encompasses performance, interactive websites, sculpture, moving image installations, and studies of various mediums that compose the contemporary digital landscape. Crucial to this practice is the interaction between the medium and its users as well as amongst the mediums themselves in her exploration of how various forms of technology bring us into contact through intimacy, and how they form part of a neoliberal apparatus that regulates the body and desire.
Chulayarnnon Siriphol
Chulayarnnon Siriphol (b. 1986, Thailand) is both a filmmaker and an artist, he employs moving images and his body as his main medium. His works are wide and varied in genre, ranging from short film, experimental film, documentary to performance video and video installations. From adaptations of local mythology and science fiction to transformation of analog body to digital spirituality, he questions contemporary issues and political ideology through his own sense of sarcasm.
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