Curator: Lysanne Thibodeau
Panelists: Stephanie DeBoer, Bruce Bo Ding
Time: 2015.10.24 14:00-16:30
Venue: Chronus Art Center (Building 18, No 50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai)
Language: English(with Chinese translation)
Today’s digital universe permeates our daily lives, but for moving image creators it has opened up the way to new forms of expression and new artistic genres. This series of programmes assembles some of Vidéographe’s recent acquisitions that explore some of these new narrative territories resulting from technical experimentation and aesthetic research.
This hybrid programming consists of a rich works of art, filmed on film or HD, and gathered into different thematic chapters dealing with identity, war, exile, culture and technology. In a single programme, varied genres reveal a mix of approaches; alongside documentary you will find experimental fiction, filmic essays and various animation techniques.
Produced by new as well as accomplished artists, women and men of various experiences and backgrounds, these films trace a clear portrait of the world in which we live. Their visions dark or luminous, absurd or playful characterise well our era and act as a mirror, reflecting our own perceptions and questionings.
The screening program at Chronus Art Center will feature 13 works with Mandarin or no dialogue chosen from the overall programme for their accessibility. In addition, the curator of the programme will also come to Shanghai to exchange with the local audiences, which tries to spark a dialogue about current media art practices and identify new directions.
List of Works
TEXTILE DE CORDES by Nathalie Bujold Video Art / 2013 / 1 min. / No dialogue
FACES / VISAGES by Chantal Dupont Video Art / 2013 / 2 min. / No dialogue
WOMEN WALKING / CES FEMMES QUI MARCHENT by Yoakim Bélanger Fiction / 2012 / 7 min. / No dialogue
NOT DELIVERED by Vincent René-Lortie and Cynthia Carazato Animation / 2013 / 2 min. / No dialogue
CONDOMINIUM by Fernand-Philippe Morin-Vargas Fiction / 2013 / 6 min. / No dialogue
WANDERING by Éléonore Goldberg Animation / 2013 / 6 min. / No dialogue
THE BLUE MARBLE by Co Hoedeman Animation / 2014 / 6 min. / No dialogue
THE WELL by Philippe Vaucher
Animation / 2013 / 12 min. / No dialogue
POSTCARD by Jules Saulnier
Fiction / 2014 / 3 min. / Mandarin
PAPER WINGS by Vincent Toi
Fiction / 2011 / 7 min. / No dialogue
TIGER by Alexandre Roy
Animation / 2013 / 3 min. / No dialogue
THE SPARKLING RIVER by Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphaël Fiction / 2013 / 18 min. / Mandarin / English subtitles
1000 PLATEAUS (2004-2014) by Steven Woloshen Experimental Music art / 2014 / 3 min. / No dialogue
About the Curator
Independent Filmmaker and Media Art Curator Lysanne Thibodeau has explored genres such as cinematic essays, documentaries, experimental, fiction, artists portraits, as well as different art forms as film, video installation, music and formats, from super-8, 16mm, 35mm, video to HD. She has taught at University, given numerous conferences, presentations, workshops and has been on several juries in Canada, Europe and Latin America.
Her curated programs include “New Cartography : Digital Humanities and Realities” (2015-16), “The legitimacy of the producer-director of Les Films de l’Autre (2014), “Berlin Wall to Wall : 1989-2009” (2009), “Salon de Puss Boudoir, Berlin” “Main Film from Mtl in ten German cities”, “Berlin on Margarita Island, Venezuela”, etc.
In 2015, she received a grant from Canada’s Art Council for an international residency as a Media Arts Curator in China.
About Panelists
Stephanie DeBoer is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Media School at Indiana University. She is the author of Coproducing Asia: Locating Japanese-Chinese Film and Media (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), and her articles have appeared in journals such as Screen and Theory, Culture & Critique. Her research areas include transnational cinema and media; screen media arts and video arts; cinema and media’s intersection with space/place/location; Chinese, Japanese, and East Asian cinema and media; cinema and media theory and criticism. She is currently a research resident at CAC.
Bruce Bo Ding is Public Program Convener at Chronus Art Center. He is also a theatre practitioner, consultant and translator. Ding has participated in many contemporary art exhibitions including the 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, Animism, etc. Since 2014, he has been researching and practicing “Art as Connection”.
About Vidéographe
Vidéographe is an artist-run centre dedicated to the creation, distribution, dissemination and broadcasting of independent media art productions. The first artist centre in Canada to produce work in video, Vidéographe was founded in 1971 by a group of filmmakers and producers from the National Film Board (NFB) who wished a more democratic approach to the production and broadcasting of audiovisual projects.
