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Video Letter 1-3 錄像書簡 1-3
Video Letter 1-3 錄像書簡 1-3
Video Letter 1-3 錄像書簡 1-3
Video Letter 1-3 錄像書簡 1-3

Video Letter 1-3錄像書簡 1-3

B&W
Sound
4:3
Single-channel Video
production year /
1993
duration /
10'46

An attempt to write to people I miss when I am constantly on the road. An exploration of the relationship between desire and diaspora.

獲邀在德國柏林地鐵站、加拿大安大略省美術館、美國有線電視等放映

旅途中的人,醒來不見家。拿起手上最便宜的玩具攝影機寫信,不得已也寫到什麼是我,什麼是(感情裡的)她。

「由於經常在外奔走,離開一個城市,然後又在另一個城市醒來,我發現我經常在寫信——給想念的,給在路上遇到的,給要見的……當我開始厭倦文字(經常發生),我便開始以錄像寫信。由於我是在旅途上,在陌生的地方寫信,可以運用的器材科技也就非常有限。 我以Fisher Price Pixelvision 來寫我的錄像書簡。當找不到器材剪接的時侯,便以攝錄機來剪接。這些書簡成為了對亟需缺口的慾望的紀錄。當這些書簡公映,它們在不同的脈絡中再創造了不同的意義,成為了給任何可以從中找到與自己關聯的人的信。」—— 遊靜

1 1分48秒
如何剪接慾望?慾望就是自我的邊界嗎?我能與我之慾面對面?眾自我的接合之處容得下語言嗎?

2(或,叫我作本質主義者) 3分20秒
身份如何隨操演轉變?歷史敘事如何界定與圍困自我?

3信,怎麼會有名字?5分20秒
慾望必虛妄同?寫信必然是自欺?慾望多少是來自對自我的錯認與壓抑?

about the artist /

Born in Hong Kong, Yau Ching is known in the Chinese-speaking world as a prolific writer and in the English-speaking world as a filmmaker and video artist. While managing her multiple identities, she has been making socially engaged work for more than three decades. She studied at the University of Hong Kong, New School for Social Research, Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, and received her PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London. While she was teaching at Hong Kong Lingnan University and Taiwan National Chengchi University, among others, she was actively involved in community organizing and public education. Yau Ching has authored more than twelve books. Her award-winning film/video works have been invited to venues including Alexanderplatz Station of the Berlin Underground, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Galarie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and broadcast in North America, Europe and Japan.

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