This compilation showcases works made by female video artists. From the adventures of the walking vagina in Rati by Phoebe Man to the two video works on Hong Kong’s famous Cantonese Opera duo Song of the Goddess by Ellen Pau and Suet-Sin’s Sisters by Yau Ching, this selection maps the disparate ways in which female artists address topics of gender and sexuality.

本作品集輯錄了女性錄像藝術家的作品。由文晶瑩的《慧慧》中敍述會行會走的陰唇，以至兩部紀錄了香港女同性戀者藝術家的作品鮑藹倫的《似是故人來》和游靜的《雪仙的妹妹》，刻劃了女性錄像藝術家對性取向的不同演繹方法。

May Fung created over 10 short experimental films between 1977 and 1985 and over 20 video works from1986 onwards. Later she created video installations and put video art into the theatre. Fung is also passionate about the development of visual and performing arts, and received a fellowship from the Asian Culture Council for researching video art in New Yorkin 1994. In 1999 Fung was awarded the Hong Kong Arts Development Council “Arts Development Scholarship” for video installation art. She has been an assessor or juror for various video and film festivals/exhibition in Hong Kong, and is now an examiner and advisor to the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. In addition, Fung is the chairperson of Art & Culture Outreach, a non-profit charitable arts organization.

Ellen Pau, born in Hong Kong, began her art career while studying radiography at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, creating her first experimental super-8 film, The Glove. She co-founded Videotage in 1986 and received the Asia Cultural Council Fellowship in 1992, creating Song of the Goddess in the U.S. Her international career launched at the 1995 Gwangju Biennale, followed by exhibitions at “City on the Move”, Asia Pacific Triennial, Shanghai Biennale and Taipei Biennale. Since 1996, she has been a director at the Microwave International Media Art Festival. At the 2001 Venice Biennale, she presented Recycling Cinema. Recent exhibitions include Awakening: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s (2019) at the National Gallery Singapore, What About Home Affairs (2019) at Para-site and Shape of Light at M+ Facade (2022). Her works are held in collections of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, M+, and Griffith University. The Asia Art Archive launched her archive in 2023.

NG Yin-chun Fion was born in Hong Kong. She is a cultural event organizer, critic and part-time teacher. She has curated a variety of programmes for overseas festivals and art institutions including the Microwave International Media Art Festival (Hong Kong), “Oil Fiction” and “Imagetripping” for the 5th Festiva (Lima, Peru, 2000), “Sick and Dizzy” for Media Art Asia Pacific (Brisbane, Australia, 2000), Foreign Matter program, Antimatter Underground Film Festival (Victoria, Canada, 2005). Her videos have been selected or commissioned by various international art festivals and exhibitions such as Hong Kong Arts Festival, European Media Art Festival, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific and Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, “Asianvibe. Arte Contemporaneo Asiatico” at I’Espai d’ Art Contemporani de Castello in Castello, etc. She holds a MFA major in media design and technology from School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Recently, she is appointed to research on the development of new media art in Hong Kong for Hong Kong Arts Development Council. She is also the education and promotion officer of Hong Kong Film Critics Society.

LEUNG Olive graduated from the Central St. Martin College of Art and Design, majoring in Fine Art Film and Video Art. She is now a freelance artist.

Dr. Phoebe Ching Ying Man is a conceptual artist, media sculptor and independent curator. Her most recent edible sculptures and performance Birthday Cakes (2014-15) were included in a show organized by the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and were also invited to show at the Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle. Her installation Erosion of Home (2015) has been invited to show in an exhibition curated by the Hong Kong Museum of Art and will be exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei. Her works have been shown at over a hundred exhibitions and festivals internationally, including the Venice Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, European Media Art Festival, Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, Impakt Festival, International Video & Multimedia Art Festival: Videoformes, etc. She has received awards from the Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Awards, Asian Cultural Council, Hong Kong Museum of Art and Philippe Charriol Foundation. Marie Claire magazine has selected her as one of the ten “Smart Women of the 21st Century”.
Man’s works are mostly self-exploration, challenging ideologies and institutions. The sanitary napkin flowers series installations and video work Rati have received popular recognition. She was the co-founder and board member of Para/Site Art Space and is the director of Asian Experimental Video Festival in Hong Kong.