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Drained II 借頭借路II
Drained II 借頭借路II
Drained II 借頭借路II
Drained II 借頭借路II
Drained II 借頭借路II
Drained II 借頭借路II
Drained II 借頭借路II
Drained II 借頭借路II
Drained II 借頭借路II
Drained II 借頭借路II
Drained II 借頭借路II
Drained II 借頭借路II
Drained II 借頭借路II
Drained II 借頭借路II
Drained II 借頭借路II

Drained II借頭借路II

Color
Sound
4:3
Single-channel Video
production year /
1989
duration /
05'49

The video comments on the materialization of the electronic images. A brief segment of a stage performance is endlessly repeated spatially and temporally. Human figures are drawing into, hiding behind and going through all these artificially reconstructed spaces, making them merely a reproducible animated structure. As a closed cycle of production and discourse, the electronic medium itself becomes the source of creation. During this boundless course of propagation, a woman is constantly falling onto the ground and finally disappears in between frames.

《借頭借路Ⅱ》由幾格錄像開始,重複再建構再改造而成的作品,帶有像徵意味地解放了電視框內框外,由一個台上台下台前台後的搜索,變成一種游離於框內框外的一種旅程。

about the artist /

Ellen Pau was born in Hong Kong and enrolled as a student of radiography at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1982. She is a radiographer by profession, but being a professional radiologist didnot fulfil her creative obsessions with video art and media art. In 1984 Pau made her first film Glove, asuper-8mm artwork, which was screened internationally. She has since worked as an MTV director, cinematographer, video artist, curator, educator and arts administrator. Pau began her international career in 1995 at the Kwangiu Biennale in Korea curated by Kim Hon-Yee and Nam-June Paik. She is the co-founder and artistic director for the media art organization Videotage and has served as a member and curator of the organizing committee for the Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong since 1996. Pau teaches part-time at The University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts in addition to be a full-time medical image technologist. Pau is an advisor to the HK Museum of Art, the HK Arts Development Council and a number of festivals. She has exhibited in exhibitions including One World Exposition by Videotage and the Input/Output Gallery Relocation exhibition.

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