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Screening/exhibition history / Citation / my writing
A Linda Lai video / Original shooting format: mini-DV (PAL), Hi-8 (NTSC) / First output format: mini-DV
Synopsis
Non-place ▪ Other Space is a compilation video work based on my many years of visual ethnography whereby I walked the city and collected images as a personal video diary. This work compiles fragments of the city space in Hong Kong and Macao (1991-2008) to assert the possibility of many spaces and temporal sheets in one single framed discourse. It attempts the states between disappearance and emerging, visible and concealed. “Walking through” is a precarious experience. One penetrates, dives into, emerges and immerses in… In one moment, I see, therefore the video camera records for me; in another moment, the camera sees and retains, then I discover. Automatism leads. Virtual sounds I barely grasp in my mind, and fragments of a voice I have long forgotten, all blended into the placeless other space of non-place. Places and lived moments of disappearance return as the in-between, neither monumental, nor illusionary.
Concept
Non-place ▪ Other Space is part of my continuous fuelled interest in found footage and compilation works, also an auto-ethnographic practice. I have been a fervent walker of the city as well as a detached collector of sights and sounds. Most of the outdoor sites in this work no long exist in current maps of Hong Kong, or they have never existed as practical, concrete dwellings as they were only impermanent sights of artistic installations. Video-making then is to renew the old images that filled my archive, also to preserve the fragments for their own autonomy and openness for signification. In Walter Benjamin’s light, “the life of a collector manifests a dialectical tension between the poles of disorder and order.”
KEYWORDS: city space, urban renewal, disappearance, poetry, the private/personal and the monumental, flânerie (walking the city), found footage, compilation, video art archive, visual ethnography, auto-ethnography
jArtist on the work: interview at "Descriptions of Hearing" (Taipei, 2012) in Mandarin [...]
Narrative/Text/Sound/Photography/Editing: Linda LAI黎肖嫻 /
An early version edited by: WOO Ling-ling 胡玲玲 /
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[Screening/Exhibition history放映／展出紀錄]
Film Festival appearance:
*September 10-16, 2009. In the program “Women & Alternatives,” in “Asia Forum-Hong Kong,” EXiS 2009, Experimental Film/Video Festival in Seoul, Korea - "Asia Forum-Hong Kong" - "Women & Alternatives"
**March-April 2010. "Short Film Competition," 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival (Mar 21 - Apr 6, 2010, Hong Kong) [...]
***May 6-8. 2010. In the program "Contemplating Landscapes," the First Annual Takoma Park Silver Spring Experimental Film Festival, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. [...]
****October 26-31, 2010. "Fascinations: competition," 14th Jihlava International Documentary Film
Festival, Czech Republic. [...]
*****November 18 and December 4, 2010. VAFA (Video Art For All) international festival, Macau [...]
******January 28, 2011. FIFEQ (Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Quebec / The International Ethnographic Film Festival of Quebec), Montreal, Canada [...]
*******May 5010, 2011. International Competition, 57th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (57. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen), Oberhausen, Germany
**********June 16-19, 2011. "Cityscope", Open City London Documentary Festival (inaugural edition), London, UK.
***********14 Nov 2015. EXiM 2015 - as part of Writing the Fracture and Immersion of Memory Texts: Linda Lai Video Art Solo Screening" curated by Bianca Lei, Macau
***********19 July 2017. EXiS 2017 - as part of Linda Lai's solo screening in INDI-VISUAL, Korean Film Archive, Seould, Korea
As part of the traveling showcase "This Is Hong Kong"
* May 28-30, 2009. LOOP ’09 Barcelona (Video Art Festival and Fair), at Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain
** July 4 to August 24, 2009. Alternative Space Loop, Loop Media Center. Seoul, Korea.
*** “Subvision,” August-September, 2009, organized by the Academy of Fine Arts, Kunstverein and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany.
***September-October 2009. East Side Projects. Birmingham. England. UK
****October 2009. IFA Gallery. German Foreign Affairs Ministry. Berlin. Germany
*****October 2009. “October Contemporary,” Map Office. Hong Kong
******October-November 2009. CASA ASIA Madrid. Palacio Miraflores. Madrid. Spain
*******February-March 2010. Kuandu Museum of Art. Taipei
********March 1-31, 2010. Kunsthalle Wien - in the black box of the Ursual Bickle Archiv. Vienna, Austria.
In cultural events:
June 7, 2011. Presented and discussed by Natalie Resch in 'Urban style; build up a (un)fair world', organized by the Afro Asiatic Institut in Graz, Austria.
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Kimburley Choi & Cultural Studies -
http://kim-culturalstudies.blogspot.com/2009/08/non-place-other-space-lai-2009.html
Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya, curator for "This is Hong Kong" (introduction in Catalog) -
“黎肖嫻的研究引領我們穿過不同的過度和日常生活經驗，其作品以紀錄片風格，探索以微眇事物和姿態築就的世界 －縱使在與超現實風格的間斷交鋒時，所有事物的‘日常性’都變得分崩離析。”
"Linda Lai's research takes us across continents and ordinary daily life. Lai's documentary style pins down the world of small things and gestures, although the 'ordinariness' of everything falls into pieces when faced with more surreal intermissions."
Expose of Non-place in the official catalog of "This is Hong Kong" -- Venus Lau, Robin Peckham -
“......錄像裡地點和情緒高速流轉，與徘徊實驗和歌劇風格之間的音樂並行。接續的流動影像之間，照片和感性（或詩意）的日誌文字浮現，與...徐疾有致的剪接節奏亦步亦趨。......”
"......Throughout this rapid succession of places and emotions, the soundtrack drifts between the experimental and the operatic; the moving images are interspersed with still photographs and sentimental or poetic journal entries reproduced in text over the images, all of which becomes subject to...varying rhythms of editing.
to read FULL EXPOSE [......]
A short article I prepared for the work's presentation at Afro Asiatic Institut (Graz, Austria) and the Open City London Documentary festival [...]
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《隱城･懸浮半空》
2009, 13'45"
《懸浮半空》是存在也沒有存在過的空間。它在看見與看不見之間，於消失了與頻將臨至之際，牢牢地扣著視聽，闖進我的意識，其實不過是漫遊香港澳門雙城的有意無意的隨拾。有時，我看見了，錄像留住。有時，則是錄像捕捉了，我因而發現。然後，某年某天的一片聲、另一刻某種我腦海中隱約觸得到的音塊波動，我都隨手拿來，混進這無以命名的一片虛地。不假思索法的再一次。空間，是永遠在延展中的。我行動、我述說，所以空間。
創作概念
《隱城∶懸浮半空》是個｢彙編錄像｣的習作。時間流逝，多年的個人錄像日記由親身體驗的個人記述，漸漸變得生疏，猶如｢現成物｣，於我的抽屜中給我發現，化為創作的素材，結果出現了這個1991-2008年香港和澳門城市的夾縫碎片的活動拼貼畫。我對時空的體驗成為了整理、剪接的脈絡 – 即眾數的時間層於同一空間的交疊、穿梭，過去的眾多的｢點｣和｢面｣，化解為記憶的洪流，又或還可整理再整理的影音庫。如班雅明說∶｢搜集者的生活，就是秩序與混沌兩極間迴旋的辯證。｣於我，錄像創作不單是舊材的翻新，更是從新的打開，給復活的碎片自行發聲的禮儀。
關鍵字∶城市空間、市區重建、消失、詩、私/個人的相對於碑誌式的、城市漫遊、現成影像片段、彙編錄像、錄像庫、視覺民俗志田野研究、自傳性民俗田野研究
黎肖嫻談《隱城。懸浮半空》（台北「聽覺摹寫」，2012） [...]製作資料
拍摄/聲效/剪接：
黎肖嫻
早期剪接：
胡玲玲
有關這 作品的文字記述，請參看英文部分索引。
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Non-place (front) at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (Taipei) - Projection 國立台北藝術大學關渡美術館
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LOOP Alternative Space (Seoul首爾) [*Non-place is on the first monitor from LEFT], 2009.07.04-08.24
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| Non-place viewed at IFA Galerie / WL Berlin, Hong Kong (Berlin) - Screening |