Loss & Transience
An exhibition of moving image artworks and documentary films presented by VisionMix and co curated by Dr. Lucía Imaz King (Lecturer in Moving Image, University of Brighton)
Image credit: Gigi Scaria, Face to Face (2010) Digital print, courtesy of the artist
Curators’ Note
The Exhibition brings a selection of works in documentary film and artists’ video by ten contemporary artists/filmmakers living and working in India today, including artists of Indian heritage based internationally.
The films are linked by their protagonists’ state of transience at key moments within the films providing numerous insights into how day-to-day realities are being catalysed to affect change, but also to reflect on present political and environmental concerns.
Collectively the films are examples of rendering new worlds through improvisation which cannot exist ‘in the real world’; an approach that is re-constructive and playful; allowing for adaptation to the challenges of the environment whilst critically questioning our role within it.
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Online Events
Webinar hosted by Hong-gah Museum – 27 March 7-9 pm Taiwan time, 4.30-6.30pm IST, 11am-1pm GMT
Aired on Hong-gah Museum’s FB page. Log on via this link at the above time.
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Introduction to the exhibition, Loss & Transience, with Curators, Zoe Yeh, Lucía Imaz King & Rashmi Sawhney, followed by a talk between filmmaker Avijit Mukul Kishore and visual artist, Nilima Sheikh on their collaboration for the film, Garden of Forgotten Snow, about the practice of Nilima Sheikh. Guest artist: Kuei-Pi Lee.
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Video Screenings hosted by videoclub, UK – 19-27 March 2021 (24 hours per day)
Selected films/video artworks from the exhibition, accessible on a rolling programme:
Ranbir Singh Kaleka: Man with Cockerel, 2004 (6 mins) & Forest, 2007 (16 mins)
Avijit Mukul Kishore: The Garden of Forgotten Snow, 2017 (30 mins)
Mochu: Wake, 2008 (15 mins)
Ranu Mukherjee: Home and the World, 2015 (5 mins)
Gigi Scaria: No Parallels, 2010 (6 mins) & Political Realism, 2009 (3 mins)
Join link for online screening programme:
https://videoclub.org.uk/visionmix-loss-transience-2-film-programme-and-artists-2/
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Webinar hosted by videoclub – 20 March 11am-1pm GMT, 7-9 pm Taiwan time, 4.30-6.30pm IST
Introduction to the exhibition, Loss & Transience by Curators, Lucía Imaz King, Rashmi Sawhney and Jamie Wyld (videoclub) followed by an artist’s talk by Gigi Scaria with public interaction.
Join link for Webinar:
https://videoclub.org.uk/visionmix-loss-transience-2-curators-and-artists-talk/
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Hong-gah Museum
Taipei, Taiwan – 12 March – 2 May 2021 – Visiting hours: 10:30-17:30 Taiwan time, Tues to Sun
https://www.hong-gah.org.tw/4376?lang=en
Exhibition in the Video Hall, Installations and screenings of works by artists/filmmakers:
Ranbir Singh Kaleka, Gigi Scaria, Mochu, Avijit Mukul Kishore, Ranu Mukherjee, Ayisha Abraham, Abhinava Bhattacharyya, Ambarien Alqadar, Madhusree Dutta & Devshree Nath
Curators: Lucía Imaz King, Rashmi Sawhney
Film screening at Hong-gah Museum Video Hall: 10,17 and 24 April, 2.30-4.30pm
Madhusree Dutta, Seven Islands and a Metro (180:00)
Catalogue for the physical and online exhibition events:
https://www.hong-gah.org.tw/4376?lang=en
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Contact for enquiries: https://www.visionmix.info/contact
