Exhibition
Date: 15 – 30 Aug, 2015
Opening: 15 Aug, 2015, 6pm
Venue: V Art Center, Shanghai
Screenings
Date: 15 Aug, 2015
Time: 2-3:15pm
Venue: Chronus Art Center, Shanghai
Date: 16 Aug, 2015
Time: 3-4:15pm
Venue: Ray Art Center, Shanghai
Curatorial and Artists’ Talks
Speakers: Lucy Clout, Isaac Leung & Jamie Wyld
Date: 15 Aug, 2015
Time: 3:30-5:45pm
Venue: Chronus Art Center, Shanghai
Speakers: Iven Cheung, Kevin Lam & Christopher Lee
Date: 16 Aug, 2015
Time: 4:30-5:45pm
Venue: Ray Art Center, Shanghai
Artists-in-residence
Artist: Lucy Clout
Date: 1 – 16 Aug, 2015
Venue: V Art Center, Shanghai
Artist: Daniel Shanken
Date: 20 Jul – 24 Aug, 2015
Venue: K11 art village, Wuhan
Both Sides Now II – It Was the Best of Times, it Was the Worst of Times? is the second phase of a long-term project that proposes (historical) re-readings of artists’ moving image from Hong Kong, China and the UK. By selecting video works of art, animations and documentary films, produced by Hong Kong and UK artists from 1989 to 2014, the project will reinterpret the experience of here and now by looking into the potentially excluded and forgotten moving images of Hong Kong.
In the new edition, videoclub (UK) and Videotage (HK) bring together internationally-recognised artists from the fields of video and film during a several month-long programme from July – December 2015. To build on the ideas posited from the success of Both Sides Now – Somewhere between Hong Kong and the UK, 18 art organisations in the UK, China and Hong Kong will take part in various extensive screenings, exhibitions and artists-in-residence programmes.
Both Sides Now is part of the new initiative Acentered – Reterritorised Network of European and Chinese Moving Image, which is a project umbrella that interlinks extensive media art institutions in China and Europe. To build on the ideas posited from the success of Both Sides Now, videoclub and Videotage are planning to further initiate exchanges between China and Europe with an eye towards the future of experimental moving image. Acentered will continue to explore moving image from regional, national and global perspectives. By initiating long term collaborations between extensive Chinese and European art institutions, Acentered will aim to stimulate minds and broaden horizons for institutions and individuals alike on both sides of the world.
Curators
Isaac LEUNG (HK)
Jamie WYLD (UK)
Assistant Curators
Angel CHAN (HK)
Iven CHEUNG (HK)
Moritz CHEUNG (UK)
Kevin LAM (HK)
Christopher LEE (HK)
Florence WAI (HK)
