Videotage is pleased to present Story Machines, Case Mods and Ghost Horses by Netherlands-based artist Janne Schimmel, with the support of Stimuleringfonds. Celebrating the conclusion of his 10-week residency, the exhibition features his gaming sculptures, integrated with the modified devices collected in the city and his collaborative creations with local game enthusiasts and artists’ collective.

Known for his practice of dismantling and reassembling video game devices, Schimmel interrogates their digital and physical composition, exploring the hidden infrastructures that shape how technology is imagined, owned, and experienced.

Drawing inspiration from the richness of the Cantonese language, Schimmel’s observations – rooted in his foreign identity (gwáilóu), his speculative storytelling (gwáimá), and his playful interventions and modifications (jíng gwái jíng má) – are woven together around the diverse ideas of ‘ghosts’. Beyond fictional hauntings, the concept widens to the ghosts of memory, mischief and myth, leading us to uncover the spectral residues embedded in our everyday interfaces and extending the reimagining of the devices’ logics. In this séance for technological afterlives, audiences are not simply engaged as users but as modders, storytellers and hanutologists of technologies.

(Image courtesy of the artist and Videotage. Photography: Felix SC Wong)

錄映太奇呈獻荷蘭藝術家雅內．希梅爾的展覽《整鬼整馬》，結合他與本地遊戲迷與藝術家群體的共同創作，以及在城中搜集的改裝機器，展出其電子遊戲雕塑系列。是次項目由荷蘭 Stimuleringfonds 資助，為希梅爾在香港十星期駐留的總結。

希梅爾擅長拆解與重組電子遊戲設備，研究其數碼與物理構成，並探索深藏其下卻影響著人類如何想像、擁有和體驗的內在系統。

藝術家從粵語豐富的詞彙取得靈感，並將其觀察交織成「鬼」對他與其作品的多重意義：外國人身份（鬼佬）、不確定的敘事（鬼馬），以及甚具玩味的介入與改裝（整鬼整馬）。除了虛構的鬼魂，「鬼」的概念更推至記憶、惡作劇及神話，指引我們找到過時科技嵌入日常界面中的殘影，並延伸至對這些設備邏輯的再想像。是次展覽是邀請觀眾不僅作為使用者，亦以改裝者、敘事者和科技的幽靈學者的身份，為被淘汰的科技舉行一場雖死猶生的召魂儀式。

（圖片由藝術家及錄映太奇提供。攝影師：黃思聰）

18.6.2025 – 20.7.2025
12:00 – 19:00（Wed to Sun 三至日）

Curated by | 策劃：Angel Leung 梁安琦
Visual Design | 視覺設計：Kaman Lam 林嘉文 (IG @museumtrap)

Presented by | 主辦: Videotage 錄映太奇
Supported by | 資助：Stimuleringfonds
Venue Sponsor | 場地支援：V54 (IG @ycac.plk)