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.

Lo, studied Diploma in Design from the Swire School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic. Then on-and-off worked as full-time and part-time cultural worker and journalist – as reporter, photographer, designer and contributor for newspapers, magazines and publication in Hong Kong. Based in Beijing from 2008-2017, first as cultural feature director for Modern Media Group then freelancing for different media and projects, pop or alternative, as ‘a teleporter between hk and beijing’. Since back to our city, Lo has been involved in the ‘archaeology’ of hong kong visual art & cultural scene.

Anson is a queer researcher-artist and Buddhist. Specialised in research-based artworks and essay film/video, she has been doing documentary, web-based art projects, music video, sound art and sound design for 35 years. She also taught in universities for 20 years in Hong Kong. Her interests started with gender/sexuality in the 1980’s-90’s, gentrification and urban redevelopment in 2000’s-10’s, emotions and the notion of fear in 2010’s, and in recent years, mindfulness and neuroscience. Recently, she has finished the teacher’s training from Oxford Mindfulness Foundation and have started her triple roles of artist-researcher and mindfulness teacher.

Her works have been selected for festivals including Busan International Film Festival, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival and Vancouver International Film Festival and Queer East UK. Her works are collected by M+ Hong Kong.

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.

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.

Phoebe Man is a multimedia artist, independent curator, and Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Working across animation, video, installation, performance and participatory practice, she specialises in socially engaged art and community-based projects that foreground identity, dialogue and collective memory.

Her recent project series The Taste of Longing (2023–2026) explores food, memory, and identity. Using animation as a catalyst for collective remembrance, Man created Eight Tastes of Longing, which has screened at 4 festivals and exhibitions internationally, including the Nevada Women’s Film Festival (USA). A participatory installation version of the project has been presented in Taiwan, Japan, and Macau.

Man’s animation Post #MeToo (2022), developed as part of a socially engaged art project, received an Honorable Mention from the FOLCS International Short Film Competition in New York. The work has been shown at 20 international museums and film festivals. In 2020, she curated the group exhibition Post #MeToo Art, addressing sexual assault and related social issues.

Her practice always has audience engagement. Her participatory installation Erosion of Home (2015), addressing housing issues, was invited to exhibitions curated by the Hong Kong Museum of Art and presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei; over a two-month period, more than 6,000 visitors took part in its creation. Her edible sculptures and performance series Birthday Cakes (2014–15) were selected for a show organised by the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, and were also invited to the Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), Seattle. Since 2014, she has led 23 workshops titled If I Were, focusing on sexual violence in Taiwan and Hong Kong, with over 500 participants. In collaboration with the Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation, she developed further public projects including One Person One Heart (2014) and Free Coloring If I Were (2018-2025). One Person One Heart is now a permanent exhibit at the Ama Museum—Museum of Peace and Women’s Human Rights in Taipei, with over 3,000 participants contributing to the work.

She curates local and overseas community art projects, including “Resonance Islands” in the Orkney Islands in UK and “Project C” for Fotan art community. Her research on community art has been published and presented internationally. Her paper “Creative Strategies for Hong Kong Community Art in Community Building” appeared in Hong Kong Visual Arts Overview 2020 (Chinese University Press, 2022). She has also presented research in the Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook (2017, 2020) and at conferences hosted by Seijo University (Tokyo), the National University of Ireland Galway, and Leiden University.

As a curator, Man is one of the founders of Para/Site Art Space and formerly served as Director of the Asian Experimental Video Festival (Hong Kong). She has curated screening programmes and exhibitions internationally, including projects for Over View (world tour, 2014–15), the Asian Experimental Video Festival in Macao (2011, 2015, 2017), EX!T 2010: Experimental Media Festival (Taiwan), and EXiS: Experimental Film/Video Festival (Seoul, 2009), as well as exhibitions such as Making the Familiar Unfamiliar @ Hong Kong Park (2009), Playground (Kao Yuan University, Taiwan, 2006), and Wo Man: Feminine Art Exhibition (Macau, 2001). Her writing has appeared in ArtAsiaPacific (2016) and other art and film publications.

Man’s artworks have been presented in more than 200 exhibitions and festivals worldwide, including Anthology Film Archives (2019), LOOP Barcelona (2017, 2019), Times Art Center Berlin (2018), Pori Art Museum, Finland (2016), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2015), Cutlog New York (2014), the Shanghai Biennale (2004), the Venice Biennale (2003), the Gwangju Biennale (2002), and the European Media Art Festival (2001). Her book titled Phoebe Man’s Socially Engaged Art, was published in 2017, reviewing nine key works.

In 2017, Man was selected as one of four international artists for the Wapping Project Berlin Residency. She has received project grants from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and awards/scholarships from organisations including the Hong Kong Independent Short Film & Video Competition, the Asian Cultural Council, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, and the Philippe Charriol Foundation. Marie Claire named her one of the ten “Smart Women of the 21st Century.” Her work My Mirror was featured in The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies (2020), and her works have been discussed in publications including Asian Art (Pearson, 2014), The Art of Modern China (University of California Press, 2012), and Hong Kong Eye: Hong Kong Contemporary Art (2012).

Man holds a BA from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1991), an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (2000), and a DFA from RMIT University (2012). She has also served in advisory and accreditation capacities, including as a Specialist for the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications, and was an Advisor/Examiner for the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.