October 15, 2024 from 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Asia Art Archive in America presents an in-person screening featuring experimental video shorts ranging from the late 1980s and early 2020s and selected from the archives and curatorial history of Videotage.

Founded in 1986, the Hong Kong-based organization Videotage is an evolving and enduring artist-founded, artist-centered infrastructure, that has championed experimental video and art engaged with new media for nearly four decades across a range of mediums, approaches, and formats. A crucial leader and contributor in the Sinospheric video ecologies of Hong Kong and beyond, Videotage provided artists with important international opportunities for creating, presenting and historicizing video. Among Videotage’s many initiatives was an annual compilation of VHS tapes that the organization began producing in 1992. This initiative retrospectively examined Videotage’s recent programming, while annotating the changing field of video in Hong Kong, its diasporas, and region.

The event program draws from Videotage’s VHS compilation series and features work presented on tape such as Lost and Found (1992) and Video Girls (2001), along with more recent work by artists presented by Videotage in the 2010s to the present. This intergenerational program presents video rarely shown in the United States, by some of Videotage’s original founders, Ellen PAU (ACC 1991) and Yau Ching, as well as younger artists more recently involved with Videotage, whose emerging practices extend the ethos of Videotage’s commitment to critical experimentation and video as a medium of ongoing, unexpected transformation.

The screening will feature the following artists: Ellen Pau, Au Tsz Keung, Johnny, Yau Ching, Chen King Yuen, Joseph, YAN Wai Yin (ACC 2023) and Chan Ka Chi.

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