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Linda Lai / 我跨過了兩個世紀的門檻 （一）
**Part 1 of artist/scholar Linda Lai’s multi-episode narrative poem on living across two centuries, a contemplation on time and space as experienced… written over a cup of hot chocolate. 2018年元旦日，黎肖嫻用了一個小時呷著一杯和暖的巧克力。這樣，兩個世紀的心情、不同的時空對策忽然安好坐落在一個思維地表之上，連線起來。
First exposure to 16mm shooting 初嘗16米釐
On 22 July 2017, seven FPC members and friends participated in Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie’s 16mm workshop with two Bolex cameras. Using “reverse printing” method, we were able to “develop” two rolls of films made in the Shamshuipo neighborhood the same day and view the outcome at the end of the day with great excitement. […]
Linda Lai / Orientations: Boundaries Surveyed. A video art show I curated for EXiS 2017
Linda Lai elaborates on a video art program she recently presented at the EXiS 2017 (Seoul) to map a trajectory of practices in contemporary video art in the Asia Pacific.
Linda Lai / Levitated Potentiality: moving images at Art Central 2017 移形换步: 流動的影像
A moving image program Linda C.H. Lai curated for Art Central 2017 brought together film projection and digital imaging works to show experiments and innovations transcend what we call old and new media…
Linda Lai / A constellation with dotted connectivity: why I made a dispersive monument
To make a monument that does not monumentalize… Linda Lai explains her conception of “Mnemonic Archiving” in which 19 new objects embody her videography to date at Pearl Lam Galleries-Singapore, 7 May – 3 July 2016.
Linda Lai / 12 Manifestos on Videography from 12 Young Video Artists on 18 Concrete Videos 《12個宣言。錄像書寫為何。關連的18個塑形錄像作品。》
These manifestos are to accompany the 18 works in the Concrete Videos program to be screened at Floating Projects, 4:00-6:00pm, 9 January 2016, produced and curated by Linda Lai. +The project described here was partially supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. 9042111 […]
Linda Lai / Critical Spectacles & Wandering Visions: videographic experiments as micro-narratives 凝神、界外：實驗錄像書寫作為微敘述
“Critical Spectacles & Wandering Visions: videographic experiments as micro-narratives / Linda Lai 凝神、界外：實驗錄像書寫作為微敘述 / 黎肖嫻 [This essay adapts from, and expands on, a curatorial statement I wrote for a 1-hour program on experimental videography for the EXiM 2015 (Experimental Film & Video Festival in Macau), themed “香港實驗影像活動 Hong Kong Experimental Video Festival in Macao.” It is […]
Linda Lai / Curiosity of a young mind from 1999
/ Linda Lai I have been spending quite a bit of time digging up hidden waste to turn them into treasures for the Floating Projects — from my home, from my office, from my work studio… Happy to see the circulation of furniture and books and re-purposing of things accumulated through time. Last week, I […]
Linda Lai / The Signature of Documentary – thoughts from Open City London Documentary Festival 2011
To Linda C.H. LAI, documentary is a total event that cannot be fully considered without taking into account the intention of the maker, relation between the maker and the documented, the use of the work in its life-span of distribution and circulation, the conversations it invokes, and ...
Linda Lai / Minor histories… the poetic and the discursive / preview notes #5 for FPC’s 1st exhibition
– Linda C.H. Lai Voices Seen, Images Heard (2009), which will be shown for the first time in Hong Kong, tonight at FPC’s inauguration, has been shown in two different festivals in April, 2010. I have been most enlightened by the various ways audience, critics and curators communicated back to me about my work. […]
