Title: TIME is Love.9
Curator: Kisito Assangni
Type of event: Video art screening
Date & Time: Sunday, 19th June 2016, 5:00pm
Admission: Registration by email to programmes@murnomade.com by 14th June. Free of charge.
Address: Mur Nomade, Unit 1606, 16th Floor, Hing Wai Centre, 7 Tin Wan Praya Road, Aberdeen, Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2580 5923
Mur Nomade presents the international video art program TIME is Love, travelling to Hong Kong for the first time, with a screening on Sunday 19th June at 5:00pm.
Established in 2008 by curator Kisito Assangni, TIME is Love has travelled to major cities around the world exploring the theme of love in hard times and bringing every year a refreshing perspective on video art. This screening will be a unique opportunity for Hong Kong audience to discover innovative and thought-provoking works.
TIME is Love.9 is the ninth edition of the program and features a curated selection of twenty videos by international artists from Europe, Africa, the U.S., Chile, Afghanistan, Israel and Japan.
Exploring love stripped of its traditional clichés and timeless idealism, the videos address the complexities of human relationships. In their own languages infused by personal sensibility and history, the artists deal with ambivalent emotions, prevented communications, disturbed feelings, globalization, memory and spirituality. The program hopes to encourage the audience to reflect on the normative understanding of relationships in our modern society.
The selected artists of TIME is Love.9 are Alex Pearl (UK), Annabel Dover (UK), Boris Eldagsen (Germany), Carla Gannis (USA), Dimitri Fagbohoun (Benin), Fatos Irwen (Turkey), Halida Boughriet (Algeria), Irina Gabiani (Luxembourg), Javiera Tejerina (Chile), Joas Nebe (Germany), John Sanborn (USA), Michele Manzini (Italy), Nao Sakamoto (Japan), Nicolas Tourte (France), Rahman Hak-Hagir (Afghanistan)/Alfie Nze (Nigeria)/Alice Bachmann (France), Simo Ezoubeiri (Morocco), Sonia Laura Armaniaco (Italy), Thierry Ferreira (Portugal), Victor Mutelekesha (Zambia), and Yuval Yairi (Israel).
This year, TIME is Love.9 has been presented at Plateau Gallery in Berlin, Ljosi Light Festival in Seydisfjördur (Iceland), Galerie de La Voûte in Paris, and it will be travelling to SPECTRUM Festival in Villach (Austria), Niv Art Centre in New Delhi and Studio1.1 in London.
Willing to support sustainability and promote recycling, Mur Nomade is partnering with Crossroads Foundation, who kindly provided collected second-hand equipment for the screening of TIME is Love.9. Donations to Crossroads Foundation can be made at the end of screening.
About Kisito Assangni
Born in Lomé, Togo in 1975, Kisito Assangni is a Togolese-French curator, living and working between Paris and London. He studied museology at Ecole du Louvre in Paris. His research focuses primarily on psycho-geography and the cultural impact of post-globalisation.
Assangni is heavily involved in video, performance and experimental sound. His exhibitions and public programs have been shown internationally including the Whitechapel Gallery, Ben Uri Museum, London; Arnot Art Museum, New York; Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles; Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden; National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; Pori Art Museum, Finland; Foundation 3.14, Bergen, Norway; Motorenhalle Centre for Contemporary Art, Dresden, Germany; and Sobering Gallery, Paris.
As founder and curator of TIME is Love international video art program, Assangni is regularly invited to symposia, talks and events in universities and art institutions world-wide, striving to promote critical thinking through video art to a larger audience.
http://www.timeisloveshow.org/
About Crossroads Foundation
Crossroads Foundation is a Hong Kong based non-profit organisation. Our goal is to connect people in a broken world. As the name suggests, we try to be a crossroads: bringing together those in need and those who can help. We do so in four ways – GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: Where need meets resource; GLOBAL HAND: Partnering for a better world; GLOBAL X-PERIENCE: Stepping into another’s shoes; and GLOBAL HANDICRAFTS: Fair trade for a fairer world.
https://www.crossroads.org.hk/
About Mur Nomade
Established in Hong Kong in 2012, Mur Nomade is a place for creative encounters. Managed on a non-profit-making basis, we operate as both a curatorial office and an art gallery. The proceeds of the gallery help funding our curatorial programmes: collaborative art projects, cross-disciplinary and cultural exchanges, open calls for young curators, performances, workshops and residencies.
Our name is the French for ‘nomadic wall’ as we present site-specific curatorial projects in alternative venues all around Hong Kong, in addition to the regular programme of our space in the South Island Cultural District. To imagine and conceive our projects, we invite local and international artists, curators, writers and teachers. We like bold ideas, and we are convinced that confronting viewpoints and going out of comfort zones support creativity, stimulate emulation and encourage experimentation.
www.murnomade.com
