The compilation showcases work made by artists who have spent time at Videotage, though no longer in Hong Kong. This special volume explores the perspective of the “other”.

本作品集輯錄了曾經在錄影太奇逗留過的錄像藝術家，在這裏留下的錄像作品。

A pioneer of multimedia art in Brazil, Eder Santos is recognized worldwide for developing hybrid projects that mix visual arts, cinema, theater, video and new media.
His works integrate the permanent collections of institutions such as the MoMA in New York and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, two of the largest contemporary art museums in the world. In Eder’s wide participation in biennials and festivals in Brazil and overseas, stands out the partnership with WWVF – World Wide Vídeo Festival, held in Amsterdam, Holland, where the artist presented the installation “Enciclopédia da Ignorância” (Encyclopaedia of Ignorance), also shown at the Media Art Film Festival of Milan, Italy; at the Palácio das Artes, in Belo Horizonte and at the Luciana Brito Gallery in São Paulo.
Besides devoting himself to the creation of video installations and video performances, Eder Santos has an award winning career as a film director, having made fifteen short films, the TV series “Midnight Tales” (2004, TV Cultura, 90 episodes) and also the feature film “Intriguing People” (1995), awarded Best Montage in the 17th Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano in Havana(Cuba) and Special Mention in the 17th Festival et Forum International des Nouvelles Images in Locarno(Switzerland).
Currently, Santos is dedicated to the distribution of his second feature film “Blue Desert”. The project is a result of the artist’s continuous experimenting with video language and his relation with the visual arts.

Liza CHEUNG is one of the founding members of Para/Site Art Space.

Sikay Tang was born in Hong Kong and grew up in New York. She now lives in New York and Antwerp and is a typical migrant. In her photographs and video-works she mixes her own background and traditions.After having studied studied photography and sculpture at the University of Chicago and fine arts at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Holland, Sikay turned to film and television.

Sikay is an acclaimed editor. Highlights of her editing credits include award winning documentaries The Good Soldier (Emmy Award 2009), Beijing Taxi and Chisholm ‘72– Unbought and Unbossed (Peabody Award 2005). Her work in television includes being an editor with Bill Moyers on his weekly show, Moyers & Company, distributed by American Public Television. Previously, she produced and edited for ABC News.

She has taught classes at Temple University in in Pennsylvania and Third World Newsreel in New York.

Currently she is directing a documentary entitled Toby’s Paradise. It charts the life and the global journey of a Nigerian migrant, sailor and entrepreneur Toby Ebiember. After World War II he opened bars first in Shanghai, then Hong Kong and Singapore. He would be one of the first Africans to own a business in Shanghai and the last “Western” bar to close in China in 1956.

Dorotea Etzler (English name Doreen) is a conceptual artist based in Berlin, Germany. As VJane lazyliu she interacts with the smart phone to create artistic imagery. Her work investigates the media by means of glitch art and visual noise. Her background is in architecture and video. From 1998 to 2000 she lived in Hong Kong and became part of the Oil Street Artist Village.

Sam LANDELS is an Audio/Visual artist, and was selected to represent Australia in the Melbourne International Film Festival. Rhythmus 99, a videotape Sam made, was included in a program called “Citadel – film and video exploring the city limits”.

Steve HARLEY is an artist who has been working with film and especially video since 1981, and his work has been shown at video festivals and broadcast worldwide.