Circuit: Cinema & Meditation 虛遊迴路：冥想與非主流電影院 2023.02.11-26

INTERACTIVE EXPANDED CINEMA || Circuit: Cinema & Meditation 虛遊迴路：冥想與非主流電影院 || Artist: NG Sing-yiu 伍昇耀

Site-specific installation @Floating Projects | 2023.02.11-26 | (14:00-20:00) | Tuesdays to Sundays

A re-definition of cinema could be to challenge its entertainment orientation, to turn it into an exercise of presencing our conscious mind, to invoke sight and sound through our sense of touch. – FP editor

什麼是電影？又何謂戲院？大商場裏播放著荷里活大片的影視場所？
看似容易解答的問題，以創作角度思考⋯⋯看來並非僅僅如此。

在後期製作產業裏打滾了數年的伍昇耀，對電影製作有一定程度的批判與反思。其後在新媒體學院追求藝術知識，一路上接觸到各種異於主流的實驗性電影及非「正常故事」基礎的敍事手法。在兩個與美學相關卻又截然不同的領域上，摸索、理解、磨合，到現在被擴展影院的概念啟發，以冥想世界為題材，結合抽象視覺特效，完成了具電影語言及元素的互動影院作品-虛遊迴路。是次展覽-虛遊迴路直接用上了主軸作品的名字，於2月11至26日展出虛遊迴路和它相關的影視作品，並邀請了瑜伽導師及分享者-上寧、禪修帶領人-Gala和音樂人-太叻，在石硤尾JCCAC的「據點。句點」裏帶領一系列靈性探索活動，讓作品中描述的冥想經驗以更多面向擴展至觀眾身邊，一起思考電影、藝術和靈修的可能性。
 

虛遊迴路是由視覺特效組成、沒有任何角色的實驗性電影。透過與頌缽型裝置的互動，觀眾的意識能擴展至電影的不同時段中成為無形的主角，與視覺的細微變化和靈性音效一同流連於冥想世界的精神能量流中，體驗靈魂出竅的旅程。整個藝術品的配置和觀影體驗，試圖從被娛樂文化主導的電影和戲院形態冒出來，作重新定義。（伍昇耀）

What is a movie? What is cinema? A room in a luxurious plaza with a large screen that keeps playing Hollywood movies? … Simple questions that seem naive. This artist is not satisfied with easy answers.

Artist Ng Sing Yiu had worked in the post-production industry for a few years, after which he became serious with critically reflecting upon practices in movie production. After learning art knowledge in a new media program, his attention was drawn to experimental approaches in moving images and non-plot based narrative. Groping, comprehending, and merging the knowledge on those different aesthetic aspects until today, he has appealed to the concept of Expanded Cinema, then combined the topic of meditation and abstract visual effect as a cinematic interactive installation – Circuit. In the exhibition Circuit, audiences can experience the core artwork Circuit and its corresponding cinematic artworks on 11-26 Feb. Yoga sharer and teacher – Sheung Ning, meditation facilitator – Gala and musician Ar Nic also have been invited for leading a series of spiritual practices at “Floating Projects” on JCCAC Shek Kip Mei. Those spiritual events expand the meditative experience in artwork Circuit closer to audiences, thereby rethinking about the possibility of movie, art and spirit together.

Circuit is an experimental cinema experience constructed by a series of abstract visual-effect sequences without characters. Through interacting with the singing bowl-liked installation, visitors expand their consciousness into different sections of the movie to fill the place of the absent protagonist. By becoming the invisible protagonist, visitors wander in the midst of spiritual meditative energy, in a kind of non-haptic as journey, facilitated by the mingling flow of subtle variation of visual and sound. … The site-specific set-up of the installation as well as the viewing experience entailed challenges the entertainment-oriented mode of cinema to attempt possible re-definitions. (NG Sing-yiu）

Workshop hosts: Sheung Ning (yoga sharer): Gala (meditation facilitator)

[https://www.floatingprojectscollective.net/events/Circuit-3-workshops] registration required

workshop series (in Cantonese) || 2023.02.12 (Sun) | 15:00-16:30 | Relaxation Sound Bath 舒壓聲頻浴 || 2023.02.18 (Sat) | 15:00-16:30 | Yoga Nidra 瑜珈睡眠 || 2023.02.25 (Sat) | 15:00-16:30 | Experimental Chanting/Meditation 音樂唱誦共修

About the Artist NG Sing-yiu Stanley 伍昇耀

香港本土創作者，支持自由理念推動人類進步。
創作領域主要圍繞 新媒體藝術 / 藝術性動畫 / 動態圖像 / 插畫。

獲得視覺特效及動畫高級文憑後，在不同創意工業探索了五年。為了尋求藝術突破及跨學術思維，以藝術文學士身份於香港城市大學-創意媒體學院再次開始他的學術探索。畢業後仍然追求更多知識，向新媒體藝術的領域發展。 

Hongkongese artist, stands for freedom with no doubt.
Active in New Media Art / Abstract Animation / Motion Graphic / Illustration.

After having completed an animation higher diploma programme, Stanley worked in creative industry around five years. For the purpose of pursuing an artistic breakthrough and interdisciplinary mindset, Stanley started his academic study as a bachelor of art at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. After graduating, Stanley is still seeking for knowledge, in order to develop at the aspect of new media art.

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Online Portfolio 網上作品集 :

https://www.behance.net/fivestar555

https://ngsing519.wixsite.com/ngsing-portfolio