[spectre] Hong Kong: Videotage Newsletter December 2001 - January 2002

[Inke Arns]

Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:32:13 +0800
Subject: Videotage Newsletter December 2001 - January 2002
From: Videotage <videotage@i-cable.com>


VIDEOTAGE NEWS DECEMBER 2001 - JANUARY 2002

!! CALL FOR PROPOSALS !!
Videotage will host a five-person study trip to the Gwangju Biennale 2002,
in Gwangju, Korea! Includes flight, accomodation, and opportunity to
present at the Gwangju Biennale 2002. Dates: 24 - 29 March, 2001 (subject
to change).

Open call for proposals to present at the Gwangju Biennale 2002.
Presentations are open to artists working with new media -- single channel
video to internet art to vj performances....
Please send CV, written proposal of presentation, and examples of work. 
Deadline: 31 January 2002. 
For more, please call or email Videotage. 

Also:
IDN MAGAZINE OFFERS A SPECIAL DISCOUNT TO VIDEOTAGE MEMBERS!
Original price for IdN one-year subscription is HK$420 (6 issues/year). 
-1 year IdN Chinese/English subscription (6 issues) - HK$336 (20% off)
-2 year IdN Chinese/English (12 issues) - HK$630 (25% off)
-Special price to purchase Flips 4 - HK$250 (35% off).
Please call Videotage for more...

And now the news.....
HERE:
1. Videotage hosts a school teachers' tour of the Cattle Depot Artist
Village, with a special topic on new media art lead by its ART LEADERSHIP
participants this coming Saturday, 15 December 2001, from 2:00 - 3:30pm.  

2. Videotage's next video cafe features "L'Empire Des Significants" Video
works from Videoart Center Tokyo, Thursday, 17 January 2002, from 7:30-8:30pm.

3. Videotage hosts "Video-logue," a 6 session fringe event of the Hong Kong
Biennale 2001.  "Videologue" hosts 6 video dialogues, lectures, and
screenings on the work of Hong Kong Biennale artist Ellen Pau.  

-Session 1: The Encounter, 9 January 2001
-Session 2: Producing Video - The first video camera and the technical
exercise, 16 January 2001
-Session 3: Playing Video - The time and space in video, 23 January 2001
-Session 4: Teaching Video - The aesthetics of the mundane, 30 January 2001
-Session 5: Curating Video Program - Crossing the border from cinema to the
museum, 6 February 2001
-Session 6: The Future of Video Art in Hong Kong/in China - The
techno-cultural and political conditioning, 21 February 2002

Every Wednesday, from 7:30-9:30pm, beginning 9 January at Videotage. 

4. The Hong Kong Biennale 2002 and "Magic at Street Level" China - Hong
Kong Exhibition at the 49th International Exhibition of Art, Venice
Biennale opens at the Hong Kong Museum of Art this Friday, December 15,
2002. Video installations by Ellen Pau and Ho Siu kee and new media work by
Hung Keung will be exhibited.

5. "Space Traffic: symposium on independent art space" Slide, video and
documents marathon on view through 22 December 2001 at Para/Site Art Space,
2 Po Yan Street, Sheung Wan, t: 852-2517-4620 and Asia Art Archive, No. 8,
2/F, 181-191 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, t: 852-2815-1112

6. "Synchronize: Time-based art from China and Germany" runs through 23
December 2001, 1aspace, Unit 14D, Block C, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63
Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, t: 852-2529-0087.

7. "Very Ghostly Grey" a multi-media mini-theatre by May Fung, Bobo Lee,
Vee Leong, Fion Ng, Ng Tze Kwan, Karen Lee, and TunTun on from 8pm, 28 and
29 December 2001, Lycos Asia Theatre, Fringe Club, 2 Lower Albert Road,
Central. Tickets $50/40. For more, 852-2521-7251. 

THERE:

1. Through December 2001, Videotage curates a video screening of works from
Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan for the Bangkok Experimental Film Festival 3,
presented by Project 304. For more, please call or email Project 304,
02-271-4076, info@project304.net.

2. Hong Kong videos at Videoart Center Tokyo on Sunday, 6 January 2002 from
4-8pm and Sunday, 3 Februrary 2002 from 4-8pm. Video Art Center, MK
Building, 3/F Nakano 5-62-8, Nakanoku, Japan, t: 81-3-5380-8755. 

3. 2 Hong Kong videos invited to Transmediale 2002: Jamsen Law, "Matching
Four with Twelve - Digesting Patience" and Fan Yuk Man, "Born in HK with my
own Techniques."  Transmediale 2002 takes place from 5-10 February 2002,
Berlin, Germany.

-- 
Videotage
Unit 13, Block PB 567, Cattle Depot Artist Village
63 Ma Tau Kok Road
To Kwa Wan, Kowloon
Hong Kong
Tel: 852-2573.1869
Fax: 852-2503.5978
URL: http://www.videotage.org.hk