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.
The works in this Interior: The Voice of Dreams, including a live performance by Wong Kit Yi, help us think about what we consider to be emanating from our insides, or our interior. These include a focus on one's inner voice and how that inner voice is influenced by the media we encounter.
Tao Hui's Pulsating Atom features a middle-aged female narrator who guides us through a slew of short clips —teenagers breakdancing in the street, a sweaty indoor spin class, older women exercising in a plaza— all shot to resemble viral TikTok videos.
Wong Kit Yi will join us to present Inner Voice Transplant, a karaoke lecture performance inspired by the story of the world’s first voice-box transplant, which was carried out at Cleveland Clinic in 1998.
Diane Nguyen Severin's If Revolution is a Sickness is set in Warsaw, Poland, loosely following an orphaned Vietnamese child who grows up to be absorbed into a South Korean pop-inspired dance group.
Introduction
Tao Hui Pulsating Atom 2019, HD video, colour, sound, 15 min, Chinese with English subtitles
Wong Kit Yi Inner Voice Transplant 2022, Karaoke-style performance, sound, 41 min, English with English subtitles
Diane Nguyen Severin If Revolution is a Sickness 2021, HD video, colour, sound, 19 min, English with English subtitles
Diane Severin Nguyen
Diane Severin Nguyen (b. 1990, USA) is an artist who works with photography, video, and installation. Her photography hybridises the organic and the synthetic into amalgam sculptures, held together by the parameters of a photographic moment, and her video work expands that moment into a layered cultural and historical context.
Tao Hui
Tao Hui (b. 1987, China) makes video and installation, drawing from personal memories, visual experiences and popular culture to weave an experimental visual narration, the focus of which is often our collective experience. Running throughout his work is a sense of misplacement vis-à-vis social identity, gender status, ethnicity and cultural crisis, prompting the audience to face their own cultural histories and living conditions.
Wong Kit Yi
Wong Kit Yi (b. 1983, Hong Kong) makes work that explores biological answers to metaphysical questions. In her signature karaoke lecture performances and video work, she deals with odd scientific findings and the dysfunctional relationship between science and what is often considered pseudoscience. Wong also investigates the contractual relationship, working with such ideas as patron collaboration through the 99-year leases for her artworks. Her interests are always subject to change.
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