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mash, mass, making, mechanism, memories, mesh, mess, message, miss, midst, myths
mesh was a formal experiment exploring the combination of visual media platforms. The moving images were created by overlaying footage shot on super-8 and printed texts on 16mm transferred to super VHS, combined with vhs footage of natural phenomena.
The super-8 footage was shot at the foreshore of Tsim Sha Tsui in Hong Kong in the public space adjacent to the Cultural Centre. The structure has elevated walkways and connected bridges that act as protection from the weather. At this time, retirees (mostly men) gathered in the space to converse and chat. The super-8 footage captured the silhouettes of this gathering.
The super-8 footage was transferred to super-VHS and combined with printed text on 16mm and vhs footage using a video switchboard. The effect flattened the visual sources onto one 2- dimensional plane. The texts of the silhouette figures appear to synchronise in their movements. The scanlines were an artefact from the transfer from analogue to digital video.
about the artist /
Jo Law works with divergent media to develop a materialist aesthetic engagement with everyday experiences. Her screenworks have recently exhibited in international programs including ‘No Trans-national–Liquid Borders and Empty Promises’ at the ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, (2012) and ’60-minute Cinema–Hong Kong: our home town’ in Manchester, UK (2012). Her works have won awards including the Silver Spire Award in New Vision at the San Francisco International Film Festival and Distinguished Award in the Hong Kong Independent Film and Video Awards. They have been collected by SBS Television, Australia, and Videotage, Hong Kong. She was the Australia Council’s artist-in-residence in Tokyo in 2008 where she produced the Autumn Almanac of Tokyo (http://www.photonicsmedia.net/about-autumn). Her current projects include ‘Sixty Second Thoughts’ (http://sixtythoughts.tumblr.com/) with Ali Jane Smith and ‘Slowing Down Time’ (http://artofslowingdowntime.tumblr.com/) with Sue Healy, Louise Curham, and Michele Elliot, and ‘A World of Things’ with Redmond Bridgeman. Jo teaches at the University of Wollongong.
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