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Su-mei Tse
Catalogue : 2016Pays de neige | Video | hdv | color | 7:40 | Luxembourg, Italy | 2015
Su-mei Tse
Pays de neige
Video | hdv | color | 7:40 | Luxembourg, Italy | 2015
Pays de neige (Snow Country), 2015 A walk to clear your mind as a moment of suspension, the undefined space similar to that of a respiration before every beginning. As time during which the canvas is prepared before applying paint, or the time in which the blank sheet waits for writing, or when a thought is about to be put into language. In this video Su-Mei Tse’s sweeping emphasizes the magic moment in which we are preparing to act, to be carried away by our desires, to walk into the snow ...
Catalogue : 2014Vertigen de la Vida (Dizziness of Life) | Video | hdv | color | 9:21 | Luxembourg | 2011
Su-mei Tse
Vertigen de la Vida (Dizziness of Life)
Video | hdv | color | 9:21 | Luxembourg | 2011
Su-mei Tse
Catalogue : 2007Mistelpartition | Experimental video | 0 | color | 5:0 | Luxembourg | 2006

Su-mei Tse
Mistelpartition
Experimental video | 0 | color | 5:0 | Luxembourg | 2006
In "Mistelpartition" (2006), there is a travelling shot of a row of trees made to look like sheet music. The silence is broken by the sound of music which is visualized through illuminations in the mistletoe in winter branches ? the distant reflection of a lost tune.
Born in 1973, Su-Mei Tse is an artist based in Luxembourg and Paris. She uses different media (videos, photographs, installations, objects...) in function with the core idea she wants to express. Sound, rhythm, and music are also important components in her work, which is characterized by a placing in suspension, moments of silence, and an invitation to a degree of introspection. Su-Mei's work has recently been exhibited at Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp, at Peter Blum Gallery and PS1 in New York, at Albion Gallery in London, at Casino, Forum d'Art Contemporain in Luxembourg, and at the Kunsthaus in Zürich. Her awards include: 2006, SR-Medienkunstpreis, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken 2006; 2005, Edward Steichen Award Grant and Art Residency in NY for 2006; 2003, Golden Lion for the Best National Participation, 50; Esposizione Internazionale d?Arte, Venice Biennial 2000; Prix d?art Robert Schuman, and prix interrégional SaarLorLux.
Yu-chin Tseng, -
Catalogue : 2016No Land to Live | Video | hdv | color | 26:35 | Taiwan | 2015
Yu-chin Tseng
No Land to Live
Video | hdv | color | 26:35 | Taiwan | 2015
No land to live In the production process of this piece of work. I feel the transition of political atmosphere in Taiwan. The atmosphere of distrust spread around the society. In this work, all of these are just like after leaving an anxious scene. Maybe a insurrection, a late night party, an end of a sex, or on the way return after a rebellion protest. Don’t want to return, the so-called home, the place to live. No one will wait there, or it doesn’t matter anymore. Thinking of where can self exist. And the body rather stay at the interim middle, somewhere no where. I shoot 56 street scene in midnight Taipei. Those bodies have no intent to return to the place they live. Maybe they feel too strong about the place they just left, and the feeling can’t be soothed. They need a place in the middle, just stay there, exist there. Let self feel the existence of self. To recover the senses of the body. And this status becomes a kind of ceremony. The ceremony of trying to cover or stop what just happened. The fluttering insects are the summon of ghost. It’s a foretell of the past and those unhappened. Entrenching the body, waiting for the evidence left, becoming the existence.
TSENG YU-CHIN Born in 1978
Documenta 12 Germany Kassel
Lectorate at the Shih Chien University Communication Design
Lectorate at the Taipei National University of the Arts
CCAA Best Young Artist of Chinese Contemporary Art Awards 2008
Paris La Cité internationale des Arts International Artist Residency Program
New York Location One International Artist Residency Program
honour
2003 Shih Chien University Communication Design Graduate with honor
2007 Technical Art at Taipei National University of the Arts outstanding alumni
2013 Shih Chien University Communication Design outstanding alumni
Overseas Exhibition
2004 MOMA CONTEMPORARY The New Identity Part-5 Tracing Self
2005 The 10th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards ( ifva Asian New Force)
2005 First
Catalogue : 2013Shivering wall | Video | hdv | color | 10:0 | Taiwan | 2012
Yu-chin Tseng
Shivering wall
Video | hdv | color | 10:0 | Taiwan | 2012
Catalogue : 2010Fever Dark | Video | dv | color and b&w | 21:0 | Taiwan | 2009

Yu-chin Tseng
Fever Dark
Video | dv | color and b&w | 21:0 | Taiwan | 2009
I hate New York! From the day I?ve stepped into the city, I?ve been feeling this way. It has never left my mind, and never denied, except for a few minor surprises or some little goodness. Eating brownies, or the dazzling lights of the Broadway, reduced my dislike of New York. It?s like when I repeatedly write ?I HATE NEW YORK? on the blackboard, at the same time erasing it with a duster, but yet, traces of the words remain, as though I haven?t had any intention to rub it off more forcefully and deliberately. This is a very uninteresting game, where you cannot hide too far in, you cannot hide yourself completely, or camouflage yourself as any item in the darkness under the bed hoping that you won?t be found, whilst listening to the noises outside, you feel safe as you hide. All because, you want to be found, and this is no longer innocent child?s play. You can recklessly hide, because of anger or simply because you wish to hide away with a friend, just the two of you. You can no longer do that! You must be found, and you must show yourself, and face the music! This indeed, is no longer child?s play. Ever since I came to New York, I?ve unconsciously begun to force myself to get along with myself, and even though I?m pretty used to getting along with myself. From the time back in my home country, the solitary me, has been forced to go out and face plenty of things, and this had been repeating itself. And eventually, I took a 15-hour flight and arrived in New York, and I?m left with only myself. It is really a test of inner strength, when you?re all alone, and the only thing you can rely on is the lingering scent of your home country that?s left in your suitcases. All I want to do is to curl up and sleep while embracing the scent, and even more often, I stay indoors, inside this so-called temporary apartment of mine. I confess about my initial insecurity. Amidst the noise that goes on every hour of the day, there is hardly any serenity, and any freedom to ponder. One thinks he can travel to many places, but the truth is, you can?t. The so-called travelling, is merely a physical shift of territory, and subsequently imprisoning oneself again. Forgive my use of vocabulary ? imprisoning. I?m imprisoned. By myself, by words and speech, by this conformity of a life that isn?t mine, by the responsibilities and obligations which I need to bear. I am imprisoned. I?m so perturbed in the winter of New York, that I can?t even be sure of the magnitude of the effects that this major illness that I?m going through is bringing me. I only recall the many feverish nights, dry-coughing, which kept me awake. I groaned with a slight growl, but still I can feel the trembles from the subway beneath my apartment. And I saw a kid, facing me, all curled up, and watching me restlessly, or at least I think he?s watching me! Perhaps?? his gaze isn?t at all on me. He may be simply staring straight, as though a beast is approaching. Or like stealing glances curiously, or perhaps not. I am unable to interpret his feeling. The complexity is preventing him from focusing. It?s a thought of speaking up, but he can?t, except for the urge to speak up, displayed through the shivering of his lips.
TSENG YU-CHIN Born in 1978 2002 Graduated from Shih Chien University Communication Design 2006 Graduate School of Technical Art at Taipei National University of the Arts. 2007 aching in Shih Chien University 2007 Documenta 12 Germany Kassel 2008 New York Location One International Artist Residency Program 2008-2009 Lectorate at the Shih Chien University Communication Design 2008 CCAA Best Young Artist of Chinese Contemporary Art Awards 2008 2009 Paris La Cité internationale des Arts International Artist Residency Program 2009-2010 Lectorate at the Shih Chien University Communication Design honour 2003 Shih Chien University Communication Design Graduate with honor 2007 Technical Art at Taipei National University of the Arts outstanding alumni Awards 2001 ?Worms? Print Design Taipei Int`l Design Exhibition The Young Designs` Exhibition 2001 2001 ?Hole? Multimedia Taipei Int`l Design Exhibition The Young Designs` Exhibition 2001 2001 ??Our Sanke??The Golden Harvest Awarde 2002 ?Projection and Reflection During That Time?Golden Horse Film Festival 2004 ?Projection and Reflection During That Time?Sprin Film Festival 2004 ?Who`s listening ?? 2004 Taipei Art Award Prizewinnimg 2005 ?I?m Leaving? The 10th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards ( ifva Asian New Force) 2005 ? I despise presumptions? S-AN Cultural Foundation Prizewinnimg 2006 ?oxy_ Tseng Yu ching solo exhibition ? Taishin art award Final nominate 2006 "Un_let out the part" Taipei Digital Art Festival Prizewinnimg 2007 Yageo Tech-Art Award Prizewinnimg 2007 ?Acid Tongue Tseng Yu ching solo exhibition ? Taishin art award nominate 2008 CCAA Best Young Artist of Chinese Contemporary Art Awards 2008
Catalogue : 2008In fact, I've known all along | Experimental video | 35mm | color | 10:30 | Taiwan | 2005

Yu-chin Tseng
In fact, I've known all along
Experimental video | 35mm | color | 10:30 | Taiwan | 2005
In fact, I?ve known all along. Don?t deny me again. Although I can take more than a blow, I don?t enjoy masquerading. In fact I need to display a look of purity, to let you believe, that everything is fine. And then you will be assured that life is perfect. And then I must know where I stand, and be told bluntly what lies in the future for me. You will always believe that I will display the innocent look, and then smile blankly. This is how I will convince you. However, you did not notice what I?m lightly drawing on the floor with a finger of mine. It appears to bear the shape of a teardrop but yet will imaginatively evaporate in the light after which I will put up a faint smile, and enter my world of imagination. Everyone grows up, who wouldn?t? But have we really? When one loses his cool, it gets most noticeable as he ages. And I only hope to try hard and see a warm sunny afternoon, while you?re still great in my heart. Left in my memories, at least, when I recall them, you are still great, very, very great. However, I always remember, that I?m always denied, in the prettiest of situations. What have I done in the past? When I was indulging in senseless pleasure, or when I was just about to enter another phase. Yet suddenly, a shadow would always appear before me, blocking me. I can?t help but notice that my shadow had disappeared. In fact, I knew all along, what would happen in the future, although I couldn?t accurately put a finger to it. But believe me, I roughly know, and am able to gauge, which kind of route I will proceed along. This should not be about growing up in threats, really. Because, I would never succumb to threats, and hence get a better life. Everyone has had their difficult moments, and had endured hardships, and then they?ll be asked, whatever for? A laid back way of life is a forbidden thought, as threats will surface at anytime. Then, on whichever day, probably, just one day, I need not force myself to put up the innocent smiley face. To persuade everyone that I am fine, and I can be denied, and subsequently, I am still determined to grow up. And that would also be the day I hear the most sympathies? Fake sighs, as though they?re trying to retrieve or make amends to those denials and threats, and yet those people still continue to live marvelous lives. And then depart. The sun is great. The next person to be paralyzed here, drawing the floor with his finger, will subsequently appear. Anyway There is no great person Who would happily share his piece of candy, with another person?
TSENG YU-CHIN Born in 1978
2002 Graduated from Shih Chien University Communication Design
2006 Graduate School of Technical Art at Taipei National University of the Arts.
Solo Exhibition
2005
Catalogue : 2007Breath hard : meneat | Experimental video | dv | color | 6:0 | Taiwan | 2006

Yu-chin Tseng
Breath hard : meneat
Experimental video | dv | color | 6:0 | Taiwan | 2006
I get up in the morning. I dreamt of my grandmother last night. She was sighing; she lied down next to me. I receive a phone-call. Grandmother passed away. She was very important to me. These days, I keep on remembering when I used to run into grandmother's kitchen when I was a child. Grandmother always spoke in the Hakka tongue, and would ask me sweetly where I was coming from at that moment or whether I wanted something to eat. The Kitchen and the steam evaporate. Grandmother's hair is white. I grab the New Year's cake on the table and look stupidly at my grandmother. I miss my grandmother so much. My childhood was certainly not very joyful, but most of the joys I had came from my grandmother. These days, I want to cry when I ride my motorcycle. I feel like I am choking.
Born in 1978, Tseng Yu-Chin is currently studying at the Graduate School of Technical Art at Taipei National University of the Arts. From 1999 to 2002 he participated in In-Between Visual Art Design. In 2001 he was member of the Tai-tung Theater Group Visual Art Design and the AFA International Ltd. Visual Art. In 2003, he worked for the Tai-shun Performance Group Visual Art Design, and the National Symphony Orchestra Opera "Faust" Documentary Film Post Production. Tseng YU-CHIN spends a lot of time writing. In 2000 his poems "Something Trivial" and "My Illness" are published in In-Between vol. 2, and his novel "Age 20 and 40" in In-Between vol. 3. "Don?t Worship Things That Dangle" can be found in DPI Magazine vol. 55, 2003. Moreover, he worked in the Tai-tung Theater Group "Our Snake" as a Visual Art Inspector. Recording/Installation performed at Chung-cheng No. 2 Stage Fang Feng Art Festival 2003 and Tai-shun Performance Group "Audience" Visual Art Design at the International Art Village. Yu-Chin has received the following awards: for "Our Snake" a Golden Harvest Awards 2001, and for "Projection and Reflection During That Time", at Golden Horse Film Festival in 2002. In 2004, his work "Projection and Reflection During That Time" was chosen for the Spring Film Festival. "I?m Leaving" was played for the 10th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards 2005 (ifva Asian New Force). He has vast experience in exhibitions. His main works; "Projection and Reflection During that Time", "Who's listening?", "What had been done?", and "I despise presumptions. But if I could at the very beginning, perhaps I could save a few", have been shown at many festivals, including Poor film festival, Golden Horse film festival, Spring film Festival, "Noisy" Art Festival; and internet exhibitions, Non Sign Internet Art, The Whimsical and the Fantastic, and an on-line exhibition of Taiwan's Media Artists. In 2005, he presented his work in the 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, and in 2006, Yu-Chin created the "oxy_ Tseng Yu ching solo exhibition", for which he received the Taishin art award.
Catalogue : 2007Despise presumptions. But if I could at the very b | Experimental video | dv | color | 6:0 | Taiwan | 2005

Yu-chin Tseng
Despise presumptions. But if I could at the very b
Experimental video | dv | color | 6:0 | Taiwan | 2005
"I despise presumptions. But if I could at the very beginning, perhaps I could save a few". I am losing language, especially the vocal part. It used to function with rare shocking but lately it is replaced by random vomit and phlegm. Those who used to speak with me gradually disappeared. I am seeing myself living like this inside of my body. Don't even have energy to be loud. When I am talking to others, my throat hurts and I cannot catch up with my breath. My body and my mouth feel dried-out. I feel my two fake front teeth about to break. I want to say something, but I keep on hurting in my chest. Creation no longer is an enjoyment. Originally, it was to cure my pathetic self-indulgence. But now not anymore. I cannot speak about anything. I used to be crazy about images but now I deny it, not being understood. I do not even understand myself. I realized I would become psychotic and sickening. Especially when emotions run high. My shaking hands make me fearful and I have to pinch them, try to stiffen my muscles until they are on the edge of splitting. Yes I admit. I am wishing for pure emotions. But even with a simple swallowing, I am afraid it will hurt. Things repeat themselves, especially at night. Breathing sounds coming next to me. I watched her shoulder moving up and down. It all seemed the same. I do not care who it is, is that not it? I see it as I am sick. I sigh again. It is an old habit, I like to sigh. Was that me? Was that myself? Or someone's back? At least the smell of people becomes rare. I hate presumptions, really. About every aspect. Actually, I force myself. What is there to be regretted? Yes, it is another equal sign. Presumption and regret to me are equal, absolute. Because I force myself. There is no use for this word "regret". Nonetheless, it is no use. He cannot change anything in the body. Cannot turn, cannot clean Or is it the so called "wisdom"? The presuming tone always being shown as know-it-all. I do not know, but at last I cannot presume. I would not allow myself. But that evening, that person's back, a few smells. The body warmth flew over. I feel pain. My skin stuck with the organs and it was painful. Difficult to breathe smoothly. Really. If I really could, if I closed my eyes at the beginning. Like a game of trust Let it guide me. Let air, let body warmth, let sounds feel. Beginning, the so-called beginning is when things are in their most tortuous state. When I am still clean, when the body is still pure white. Really. If I really could. Perhaps, maybe I can save something. I cannot speak, because I lost the language. Water, sunshine. I would no longer feel the organ's pain. My body is white, no more spots. No longer going toward emotions' directions with stains. Now even these smallest things no longer are. I regret. I force myself. What is there regret? I hate presumptions. That evening, that person's back. A few snoring sounds. I see a white wall that appears to be grey due to darkness. Suddenly I see myself in a moving bus. I am sleeping with my eyes closed. Sounds pass through. Sun passes through. Air passes through. Suddenly, I think of some old man, on a bus, touching my hips over my uniform. And some elementary school girl sitting in front of me, making an arousing pose. Her uniform and skirt slightly lift up. Looks at me and smiles. I cannot sleep. My brain starts to function again. I cannot speak. Who can I talk to? Not about those. But deeper, more personal, more sobbing. Until morning. The breathing sound next to me still exists. And I am sitting on a bus with my eyes closed but he is looking at me with eyes closed. What is that. I do not know. I cannot tell.
Born in 1978, Tsent Yu-Chin graduated from Shih Chien University with Communication Design Major in 2002. He is currently studying at the Graduate School of Technical Art at Taipei National University of the Arts.
His work experience includes:
1999-2002, In-Between Visual Art Design; 2001, Tai-tung Theater Group Visual Art Design; 2001, AFA International Ltd. Visual Art;
2003, Tai-shun Performance Group Visual Art Design; 2003, Eslite Books 116 Anniversary Commercial Post Production; 2003, National Symphony Orchestra Opera "Faust" Documentary Film Post Production
Literary Works; 2000, Poetry "Something Trivial" and "My Illness" published in In-Between vol. 2; 2001, Novel "Age 20 and 40" published in In-Between vol. 3; 2003, "Don?t Worship Things That Dangle" published in DPI Magazine vol. 55
Stage Design; 2001, Tai-tung Theater Group "Our Snake"
Visual Art Inspector Recording Installation performed at
Chung-cheng No. 2 Stage Fang Feng Art Festival; 2003, Tai-shun Performance Group "Audience"
Visual Art Design at International Art Village.
His awards include:
2001, "Worms" and "Hole", Print Design Taipei Intl Design Exhibition The Young Designs Exhibition 2001; "Our Snake", The Golden Harvest Awards; 2002, "Projection and Reflection During That Time" Golden Horse Film Festival; 2004, "Projection and Reflection During That Time" Spring Film Festival; 2004, "Who's listening?", 2004 Taipei Art Award; 2005, "I'm Leaving", The 10th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards
His many exhibitions include:
2001, "Age 20 and 40", Poor Film Festival; 2002, "Projection and Reflection During that Time", Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta, Poor Film Festival, and Golden Horse Film Festival; "Who's listening?" RANDOM-IZE Film & Video Festival; 2004, "?Projection and Reflection During That Time" Spring Film Festival; "Who`s listening?" Taipei Art Award; "I'm Leaving" stock20 Film Festival; "I despise presumptions. But if I could at the very beginning, perhaps I could save a few" Taiwan Avant-garde Documenta II; 2005, "I?m Leaving" The 10th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards; "What had been done?" Con-temporary Citizens; "In All That Happened" Telepathy Technical Art; "Breath Hard" First
Catalogue : 2007Un_let out the part | Experimental video | dv | color | 4:0 | Taiwan | 2005

Yu-chin Tseng
Un_let out the part
Experimental video | dv | color | 4:0 | Taiwan | 2005
I'm not so bad. I don't want to strongly to shock others by saying "Do you know..." I dragged in a huge silence, I am wet, I close myself tightly, my past, and my nose waters and tears flow. I am losing my body, and I am gone. I hate shock, and want to knock out my throat, which is choked with sobs. Then cut everything with knife. Watch a kind of complete and great thin waste lose. I grab a paper and sway it slowly. It is the process where the matter occurs, on the paper. Swing and swing it, then put it down. A black, dense, and numerous paper picked up again, sway and sway. That happened, that?s all. Heard the sound of the paper shocked. It's like reading some words but forgetting the shape of those words because of the swinging and swaying. Scrappy, some night, scrappy and dense, like something happened. I do not necessarily have to say it all, because I'm not so bad.
Born in 1978, Tsent Yu-Chin graduated from Shih Chien University with Communication Design Major in 2002. He is currently studying at the Graduate School of Technical Art at Taipei National University of the Arts.
His work experience includes:
1999-2002, In-Between Visual Art Design; 2001, Tai-tung Theater Group Visual Art Design; 2001, AFA International Ltd. Visual Art;
2003, Tai-shun Performance Group Visual Art Design; 2003, Eslite Books 116 Anniversary Commercial Post Production; 2003, National Symphony Orchestra Opera "Faust" Documentary Film Post Production
Literary Works; 2000, Poetry "Something Trivial" and "My Illness" published in In-Between vol. 2; 2001, Novel "Age 20 and 40" published in In-Between vol. 3; 2003, "Don?t Worship Things That Dangle" published in DPI Magazine vol. 55
Stage Design; 2001, Tai-tung Theater Group "Our Snake"
Visual Art Inspector Recording Installation performed at
Chung-cheng No. 2 Stage Fang Feng Art Festival; 2003, Tai-shun Performance Group "Audience"
Visual Art Design at International Art Village.
His awards include:
2001, "Worms" and "Hole", Print Design Taipei Intl Design Exhibition The Young Designs Exhibition 2001; "Our Snake", The Golden Harvest Awards; 2002, "Projection and Reflection During That Time" Golden Horse Film Festival; 2004, "Projection and Reflection During That Time" Spring Film Festival; 2004, "Who's listening?", 2004 Taipei Art Award; 2005, "I'm Leaving", The 10th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards
His many exhibitions include:
2001, "Age 20 and 40", Poor Film Festival; 2002, "Projection and Reflection During that Time", Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta, Poor Film Festival, and Golden Horse Film Festival; "Who's listening?" RANDOM-IZE Film & Video Festival; 2004, "?Projection and Reflection During That Time" Spring Film Festival; "Who`s listening?" Taipei Art Award; "I'm Leaving" stock20 Film Festival; "I despise presumptions. But if I could at the very beginning, perhaps I could save a few" Taiwan Avant-garde Documenta II; 2005, "I?m Leaving" The 10th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards; "What had been done?" Con-temporary Citizens; "In All That Happened" Telepathy Technical Art; "Breath Hard" First
Yu-chin Tseng
Catalogue : 2016No Land to Live | Video | hdv | color | 26:35 | Taiwan | 2015
Yu-chin Tseng
No Land to Live
Video | hdv | color | 26:35 | Taiwan | 2015
No land to live In the production process of this piece of work. I feel the transition of political atmosphere in Taiwan. The atmosphere of distrust spread around the society. In this work, all of these are just like after leaving an anxious scene. Maybe a insurrection, a late night party, an end of a sex, or on the way return after a rebellion protest. Don’t want to return, the so-called home, the place to live. No one will wait there, or it doesn’t matter anymore. Thinking of where can self exist. And the body rather stay at the interim middle, somewhere no where. I shoot 56 street scene in midnight Taipei. Those bodies have no intent to return to the place they live. Maybe they feel too strong about the place they just left, and the feeling can’t be soothed. They need a place in the middle, just stay there, exist there. Let self feel the existence of self. To recover the senses of the body. And this status becomes a kind of ceremony. The ceremony of trying to cover or stop what just happened. The fluttering insects are the summon of ghost. It’s a foretell of the past and those unhappened. Entrenching the body, waiting for the evidence left, becoming the existence.
TSENG YU-CHIN Born in 1978
Documenta 12 Germany Kassel
Lectorate at the Shih Chien University Communication Design
Lectorate at the Taipei National University of the Arts
CCAA Best Young Artist of Chinese Contemporary Art Awards 2008
Paris La Cité internationale des Arts International Artist Residency Program
New York Location One International Artist Residency Program
honour
2003 Shih Chien University Communication Design Graduate with honor
2007 Technical Art at Taipei National University of the Arts outstanding alumni
2013 Shih Chien University Communication Design outstanding alumni
Overseas Exhibition
2004 MOMA CONTEMPORARY The New Identity Part-5 Tracing Self
2005 The 10th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards ( ifva Asian New Force)
2005 First
Catalogue : 2013Shivering wall | Video | hdv | color | 10:0 | Taiwan | 2012
Yu-chin Tseng
Shivering wall
Video | hdv | color | 10:0 | Taiwan | 2012
Catalogue : 2010Fever Dark | Video | dv | color and b&w | 21:0 | Taiwan | 2009

Yu-chin Tseng
Fever Dark
Video | dv | color and b&w | 21:0 | Taiwan | 2009
I hate New York! From the day I?ve stepped into the city, I?ve been feeling this way. It has never left my mind, and never denied, except for a few minor surprises or some little goodness. Eating brownies, or the dazzling lights of the Broadway, reduced my dislike of New York. It?s like when I repeatedly write ?I HATE NEW YORK? on the blackboard, at the same time erasing it with a duster, but yet, traces of the words remain, as though I haven?t had any intention to rub it off more forcefully and deliberately. This is a very uninteresting game, where you cannot hide too far in, you cannot hide yourself completely, or camouflage yourself as any item in the darkness under the bed hoping that you won?t be found, whilst listening to the noises outside, you feel safe as you hide. All because, you want to be found, and this is no longer innocent child?s play. You can recklessly hide, because of anger or simply because you wish to hide away with a friend, just the two of you. You can no longer do that! You must be found, and you must show yourself, and face the music! This indeed, is no longer child?s play. Ever since I came to New York, I?ve unconsciously begun to force myself to get along with myself, and even though I?m pretty used to getting along with myself. From the time back in my home country, the solitary me, has been forced to go out and face plenty of things, and this had been repeating itself. And eventually, I took a 15-hour flight and arrived in New York, and I?m left with only myself. It is really a test of inner strength, when you?re all alone, and the only thing you can rely on is the lingering scent of your home country that?s left in your suitcases. All I want to do is to curl up and sleep while embracing the scent, and even more often, I stay indoors, inside this so-called temporary apartment of mine. I confess about my initial insecurity. Amidst the noise that goes on every hour of the day, there is hardly any serenity, and any freedom to ponder. One thinks he can travel to many places, but the truth is, you can?t. The so-called travelling, is merely a physical shift of territory, and subsequently imprisoning oneself again. Forgive my use of vocabulary ? imprisoning. I?m imprisoned. By myself, by words and speech, by this conformity of a life that isn?t mine, by the responsibilities and obligations which I need to bear. I am imprisoned. I?m so perturbed in the winter of New York, that I can?t even be sure of the magnitude of the effects that this major illness that I?m going through is bringing me. I only recall the many feverish nights, dry-coughing, which kept me awake. I groaned with a slight growl, but still I can feel the trembles from the subway beneath my apartment. And I saw a kid, facing me, all curled up, and watching me restlessly, or at least I think he?s watching me! Perhaps?? his gaze isn?t at all on me. He may be simply staring straight, as though a beast is approaching. Or like stealing glances curiously, or perhaps not. I am unable to interpret his feeling. The complexity is preventing him from focusing. It?s a thought of speaking up, but he can?t, except for the urge to speak up, displayed through the shivering of his lips.
TSENG YU-CHIN Born in 1978 2002 Graduated from Shih Chien University Communication Design 2006 Graduate School of Technical Art at Taipei National University of the Arts. 2007 aching in Shih Chien University 2007 Documenta 12 Germany Kassel 2008 New York Location One International Artist Residency Program 2008-2009 Lectorate at the Shih Chien University Communication Design 2008 CCAA Best Young Artist of Chinese Contemporary Art Awards 2008 2009 Paris La Cité internationale des Arts International Artist Residency Program 2009-2010 Lectorate at the Shih Chien University Communication Design honour 2003 Shih Chien University Communication Design Graduate with honor 2007 Technical Art at Taipei National University of the Arts outstanding alumni Awards 2001 ?Worms? Print Design Taipei Int`l Design Exhibition The Young Designs` Exhibition 2001 2001 ?Hole? Multimedia Taipei Int`l Design Exhibition The Young Designs` Exhibition 2001 2001 ??Our Sanke??The Golden Harvest Awarde 2002 ?Projection and Reflection During That Time?Golden Horse Film Festival 2004 ?Projection and Reflection During That Time?Sprin Film Festival 2004 ?Who`s listening ?? 2004 Taipei Art Award Prizewinnimg 2005 ?I?m Leaving? The 10th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards ( ifva Asian New Force) 2005 ? I despise presumptions? S-AN Cultural Foundation Prizewinnimg 2006 ?oxy_ Tseng Yu ching solo exhibition ? Taishin art award Final nominate 2006 "Un_let out the part" Taipei Digital Art Festival Prizewinnimg 2007 Yageo Tech-Art Award Prizewinnimg 2007 ?Acid Tongue Tseng Yu ching solo exhibition ? Taishin art award nominate 2008 CCAA Best Young Artist of Chinese Contemporary Art Awards 2008
Catalogue : 2008In fact, I've known all along | Experimental video | 35mm | color | 10:30 | Taiwan | 2005

Yu-chin Tseng
In fact, I've known all along
Experimental video | 35mm | color | 10:30 | Taiwan | 2005
In fact, I?ve known all along. Don?t deny me again. Although I can take more than a blow, I don?t enjoy masquerading. In fact I need to display a look of purity, to let you believe, that everything is fine. And then you will be assured that life is perfect. And then I must know where I stand, and be told bluntly what lies in the future for me. You will always believe that I will display the innocent look, and then smile blankly. This is how I will convince you. However, you did not notice what I?m lightly drawing on the floor with a finger of mine. It appears to bear the shape of a teardrop but yet will imaginatively evaporate in the light after which I will put up a faint smile, and enter my world of imagination. Everyone grows up, who wouldn?t? But have we really? When one loses his cool, it gets most noticeable as he ages. And I only hope to try hard and see a warm sunny afternoon, while you?re still great in my heart. Left in my memories, at least, when I recall them, you are still great, very, very great. However, I always remember, that I?m always denied, in the prettiest of situations. What have I done in the past? When I was indulging in senseless pleasure, or when I was just about to enter another phase. Yet suddenly, a shadow would always appear before me, blocking me. I can?t help but notice that my shadow had disappeared. In fact, I knew all along, what would happen in the future, although I couldn?t accurately put a finger to it. But believe me, I roughly know, and am able to gauge, which kind of route I will proceed along. This should not be about growing up in threats, really. Because, I would never succumb to threats, and hence get a better life. Everyone has had their difficult moments, and had endured hardships, and then they?ll be asked, whatever for? A laid back way of life is a forbidden thought, as threats will surface at anytime. Then, on whichever day, probably, just one day, I need not force myself to put up the innocent smiley face. To persuade everyone that I am fine, and I can be denied, and subsequently, I am still determined to grow up. And that would also be the day I hear the most sympathies? Fake sighs, as though they?re trying to retrieve or make amends to those denials and threats, and yet those people still continue to live marvelous lives. And then depart. The sun is great. The next person to be paralyzed here, drawing the floor with his finger, will subsequently appear. Anyway There is no great person Who would happily share his piece of candy, with another person?
TSENG YU-CHIN Born in 1978
2002 Graduated from Shih Chien University Communication Design
2006 Graduate School of Technical Art at Taipei National University of the Arts.
Solo Exhibition
2005
Catalogue : 2007Breath hard : meneat | Experimental video | dv | color | 6:0 | Taiwan | 2006

Yu-chin Tseng
Breath hard : meneat
Experimental video | dv | color | 6:0 | Taiwan | 2006
I get up in the morning. I dreamt of my grandmother last night. She was sighing; she lied down next to me. I receive a phone-call. Grandmother passed away. She was very important to me. These days, I keep on remembering when I used to run into grandmother's kitchen when I was a child. Grandmother always spoke in the Hakka tongue, and would ask me sweetly where I was coming from at that moment or whether I wanted something to eat. The Kitchen and the steam evaporate. Grandmother's hair is white. I grab the New Year's cake on the table and look stupidly at my grandmother. I miss my grandmother so much. My childhood was certainly not very joyful, but most of the joys I had came from my grandmother. These days, I want to cry when I ride my motorcycle. I feel like I am choking.
Born in 1978, Tseng Yu-Chin is currently studying at the Graduate School of Technical Art at Taipei National University of the Arts. From 1999 to 2002 he participated in In-Between Visual Art Design. In 2001 he was member of the Tai-tung Theater Group Visual Art Design and the AFA International Ltd. Visual Art. In 2003, he worked for the Tai-shun Performance Group Visual Art Design, and the National Symphony Orchestra Opera "Faust" Documentary Film Post Production. Tseng YU-CHIN spends a lot of time writing. In 2000 his poems "Something Trivial" and "My Illness" are published in In-Between vol. 2, and his novel "Age 20 and 40" in In-Between vol. 3. "Don?t Worship Things That Dangle" can be found in DPI Magazine vol. 55, 2003. Moreover, he worked in the Tai-tung Theater Group "Our Snake" as a Visual Art Inspector. Recording/Installation performed at Chung-cheng No. 2 Stage Fang Feng Art Festival 2003 and Tai-shun Performance Group "Audience" Visual Art Design at the International Art Village. Yu-Chin has received the following awards: for "Our Snake" a Golden Harvest Awards 2001, and for "Projection and Reflection During That Time", at Golden Horse Film Festival in 2002. In 2004, his work "Projection and Reflection During That Time" was chosen for the Spring Film Festival. "I?m Leaving" was played for the 10th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards 2005 (ifva Asian New Force). He has vast experience in exhibitions. His main works; "Projection and Reflection During that Time", "Who's listening?", "What had been done?", and "I despise presumptions. But if I could at the very beginning, perhaps I could save a few", have been shown at many festivals, including Poor film festival, Golden Horse film festival, Spring film Festival, "Noisy" Art Festival; and internet exhibitions, Non Sign Internet Art, The Whimsical and the Fantastic, and an on-line exhibition of Taiwan's Media Artists. In 2005, he presented his work in the 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, and in 2006, Yu-Chin created the "oxy_ Tseng Yu ching solo exhibition", for which he received the Taishin art award.
Catalogue : 2007Despise presumptions. But if I could at the very b | Experimental video | dv | color | 6:0 | Taiwan | 2005

Yu-chin Tseng
Despise presumptions. But if I could at the very b
Experimental video | dv | color | 6:0 | Taiwan | 2005
"I despise presumptions. But if I could at the very beginning, perhaps I could save a few". I am losing language, especially the vocal part. It used to function with rare shocking but lately it is replaced by random vomit and phlegm. Those who used to speak with me gradually disappeared. I am seeing myself living like this inside of my body. Don't even have energy to be loud. When I am talking to others, my throat hurts and I cannot catch up with my breath. My body and my mouth feel dried-out. I feel my two fake front teeth about to break. I want to say something, but I keep on hurting in my chest. Creation no longer is an enjoyment. Originally, it was to cure my pathetic self-indulgence. But now not anymore. I cannot speak about anything. I used to be crazy about images but now I deny it, not being understood. I do not even understand myself. I realized I would become psychotic and sickening. Especially when emotions run high. My shaking hands make me fearful and I have to pinch them, try to stiffen my muscles until they are on the edge of splitting. Yes I admit. I am wishing for pure emotions. But even with a simple swallowing, I am afraid it will hurt. Things repeat themselves, especially at night. Breathing sounds coming next to me. I watched her shoulder moving up and down. It all seemed the same. I do not care who it is, is that not it? I see it as I am sick. I sigh again. It is an old habit, I like to sigh. Was that me? Was that myself? Or someone's back? At least the smell of people becomes rare. I hate presumptions, really. About every aspect. Actually, I force myself. What is there to be regretted? Yes, it is another equal sign. Presumption and regret to me are equal, absolute. Because I force myself. There is no use for this word "regret". Nonetheless, it is no use. He cannot change anything in the body. Cannot turn, cannot clean Or is it the so called "wisdom"? The presuming tone always being shown as know-it-all. I do not know, but at last I cannot presume. I would not allow myself. But that evening, that person's back, a few smells. The body warmth flew over. I feel pain. My skin stuck with the organs and it was painful. Difficult to breathe smoothly. Really. If I really could, if I closed my eyes at the beginning. Like a game of trust Let it guide me. Let air, let body warmth, let sounds feel. Beginning, the so-called beginning is when things are in their most tortuous state. When I am still clean, when the body is still pure white. Really. If I really could. Perhaps, maybe I can save something. I cannot speak, because I lost the language. Water, sunshine. I would no longer feel the organ's pain. My body is white, no more spots. No longer going toward emotions' directions with stains. Now even these smallest things no longer are. I regret. I force myself. What is there regret? I hate presumptions. That evening, that person's back. A few snoring sounds. I see a white wall that appears to be grey due to darkness. Suddenly I see myself in a moving bus. I am sleeping with my eyes closed. Sounds pass through. Sun passes through. Air passes through. Suddenly, I think of some old man, on a bus, touching my hips over my uniform. And some elementary school girl sitting in front of me, making an arousing pose. Her uniform and skirt slightly lift up. Looks at me and smiles. I cannot sleep. My brain starts to function again. I cannot speak. Who can I talk to? Not about those. But deeper, more personal, more sobbing. Until morning. The breathing sound next to me still exists. And I am sitting on a bus with my eyes closed but he is looking at me with eyes closed. What is that. I do not know. I cannot tell.
Born in 1978, Tsent Yu-Chin graduated from Shih Chien University with Communication Design Major in 2002. He is currently studying at the Graduate School of Technical Art at Taipei National University of the Arts.
His work experience includes:
1999-2002, In-Between Visual Art Design; 2001, Tai-tung Theater Group Visual Art Design; 2001, AFA International Ltd. Visual Art;
2003, Tai-shun Performance Group Visual Art Design; 2003, Eslite Books 116 Anniversary Commercial Post Production; 2003, National Symphony Orchestra Opera "Faust" Documentary Film Post Production
Literary Works; 2000, Poetry "Something Trivial" and "My Illness" published in In-Between vol. 2; 2001, Novel "Age 20 and 40" published in In-Between vol. 3; 2003, "Don?t Worship Things That Dangle" published in DPI Magazine vol. 55
Stage Design; 2001, Tai-tung Theater Group "Our Snake"
Visual Art Inspector Recording Installation performed at
Chung-cheng No. 2 Stage Fang Feng Art Festival; 2003, Tai-shun Performance Group "Audience"
Visual Art Design at International Art Village.
His awards include:
2001, "Worms" and "Hole", Print Design Taipei Intl Design Exhibition The Young Designs Exhibition 2001; "Our Snake", The Golden Harvest Awards; 2002, "Projection and Reflection During That Time" Golden Horse Film Festival; 2004, "Projection and Reflection During That Time" Spring Film Festival; 2004, "Who's listening?", 2004 Taipei Art Award; 2005, "I'm Leaving", The 10th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards
His many exhibitions include:
2001, "Age 20 and 40", Poor Film Festival; 2002, "Projection and Reflection During that Time", Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta, Poor Film Festival, and Golden Horse Film Festival; "Who's listening?" RANDOM-IZE Film & Video Festival; 2004, "?Projection and Reflection During That Time" Spring Film Festival; "Who`s listening?" Taipei Art Award; "I'm Leaving" stock20 Film Festival; "I despise presumptions. But if I could at the very beginning, perhaps I could save a few" Taiwan Avant-garde Documenta II; 2005, "I?m Leaving" The 10th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards; "What had been done?" Con-temporary Citizens; "In All That Happened" Telepathy Technical Art; "Breath Hard" First
Catalogue : 2007Un_let out the part | Experimental video | dv | color | 4:0 | Taiwan | 2005

Yu-chin Tseng
Un_let out the part
Experimental video | dv | color | 4:0 | Taiwan | 2005
I'm not so bad. I don't want to strongly to shock others by saying "Do you know..." I dragged in a huge silence, I am wet, I close myself tightly, my past, and my nose waters and tears flow. I am losing my body, and I am gone. I hate shock, and want to knock out my throat, which is choked with sobs. Then cut everything with knife. Watch a kind of complete and great thin waste lose. I grab a paper and sway it slowly. It is the process where the matter occurs, on the paper. Swing and swing it, then put it down. A black, dense, and numerous paper picked up again, sway and sway. That happened, that?s all. Heard the sound of the paper shocked. It's like reading some words but forgetting the shape of those words because of the swinging and swaying. Scrappy, some night, scrappy and dense, like something happened. I do not necessarily have to say it all, because I'm not so bad.
Born in 1978, Tsent Yu-Chin graduated from Shih Chien University with Communication Design Major in 2002. He is currently studying at the Graduate School of Technical Art at Taipei National University of the Arts.
His work experience includes:
1999-2002, In-Between Visual Art Design; 2001, Tai-tung Theater Group Visual Art Design; 2001, AFA International Ltd. Visual Art;
2003, Tai-shun Performance Group Visual Art Design; 2003, Eslite Books 116 Anniversary Commercial Post Production; 2003, National Symphony Orchestra Opera "Faust" Documentary Film Post Production
Literary Works; 2000, Poetry "Something Trivial" and "My Illness" published in In-Between vol. 2; 2001, Novel "Age 20 and 40" published in In-Between vol. 3; 2003, "Don?t Worship Things That Dangle" published in DPI Magazine vol. 55
Stage Design; 2001, Tai-tung Theater Group "Our Snake"
Visual Art Inspector Recording Installation performed at
Chung-cheng No. 2 Stage Fang Feng Art Festival; 2003, Tai-shun Performance Group "Audience"
Visual Art Design at International Art Village.
His awards include:
2001, "Worms" and "Hole", Print Design Taipei Intl Design Exhibition The Young Designs Exhibition 2001; "Our Snake", The Golden Harvest Awards; 2002, "Projection and Reflection During That Time" Golden Horse Film Festival; 2004, "Projection and Reflection During That Time" Spring Film Festival; 2004, "Who's listening?", 2004 Taipei Art Award; 2005, "I'm Leaving", The 10th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards
His many exhibitions include:
2001, "Age 20 and 40", Poor Film Festival; 2002, "Projection and Reflection During that Time", Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta, Poor Film Festival, and Golden Horse Film Festival; "Who's listening?" RANDOM-IZE Film & Video Festival; 2004, "?Projection and Reflection During That Time" Spring Film Festival; "Who`s listening?" Taipei Art Award; "I'm Leaving" stock20 Film Festival; "I despise presumptions. But if I could at the very beginning, perhaps I could save a few" Taiwan Avant-garde Documenta II; 2005, "I?m Leaving" The 10th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards; "What had been done?" Con-temporary Citizens; "In All That Happened" Telepathy Technical Art; "Breath Hard" First
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Catalogue : 2013Amnesialand | Video | 16mm | color and b&w | 24:0 | Greece, Netherlands | 2010
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Amnesialand
Video | 16mm | color and b&w | 24:0 | Greece, Netherlands | 2010
Deep in the future the massive Event that by definition cannot be remembered separates the Revolution from its history. A man, historical agent of the future socialist authority, believes he has found evidence of the Event`s origins in 20th century The Union. The post-industrial wasteland The Union previewed Earth`s future before it happened. So too, the Man believes, it previewed, and glimpsed the Event, and proved its true nature. The event was Metallic. Amnesialand is the whole world. Our inability to remember the past mirrors their inability to see their future.
Stefanos Tsivopoulos (b. 1973) lives and works in Amsterdam. He participated in international art residencies such as the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten Amsterdam, Netherlands; Platform Garanti Istanbul, Turkey; IASPIS Stockholm, Sweden; and ISCP NY, USA. Recent solo shows include The Blind Image, ISCP NY, USA; Amnesialand, Heidelberg Kunstverrein, Germany; The Real The Story The Storyteller Smart Project Space Amsterdam, Netherlands; Lost Monument, Art Forum Berlin, Germany. Group shows include The Rest is History, Manifesta 8 Murcia, Spain; On Morality-Act III, Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Nethrlands; One Giant Leap, BFI Southbank London, UK; Practicing Memory, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy; And the moral of the story is... APEXART New York, USA; Hors Pistes-Un Autre Mouvement des Images, Centre Pompidou Paris, France; Monitoring, Friedericianum Kunstverein Kassel, Germany; Destroy Athens, 1st Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece, In Present Tense, Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens. He is recipient of the Golden Cube Award at the 25th edition of the Kasseller Documentary Film Festival in Kassel Germany for his film Untitled (The Remake). He was shortlisted for the 4th edition of the DESTE Prize for Contemporary Art, Athens Greece and the 7th edition of the "Future of Europe" Award.
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Catalogue : 2025Object Reconnaissance | Experimental film | 4k | color and b&w | 29:43 | Greece, Netherlands | 2024
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Object Reconnaissance
Experimental film | 4k | color and b&w | 29:43 | Greece, Netherlands | 2024
"Object Reconnaissance" is a work of fiction that depicts actual artifacts, historical archives, and museum collections from the Netherlands. The story is set in the 1960s and references events such as the Indonesian mass killings, the Free Papua Movement, and stories of forced displacement. The narrative follows the fictional character Ratna "Merah Muda" Bakti, an Indonesian activist associated with the Gerwani movement who fled to the Netherlands in 1965 during the political crisis. In the present day, her granddaughter, Ria Bloem, seeks to uncover Merah's past by exploring letters, family albums, and Super 8 films. During her investigation, Ria discovers photos of a significant ceremonial object, a seashell, which has gone missing. Intrigued, she sets out to find the shell, leading her to uncover family secrets that shed light on Dutch colonial history.
Stefanos Tsivopoulos is an interdisciplinary visual artist, filmmaker, writer, and educator who divides his time between Amsterdam, New York, and Athens. Known for his research-based work on archives and the unique visual style of his films, which blend found footage with cinematic sequences, Tsivopoulos is motivated by a pressing need to delve into the anthropological aspects of contemporary global crises. These include ecological, economic, political, social, and cultural issues. His body of work focuses on personal and collective histories, examining their influence on present-day socio-political discourses. Throughout his 15-year career, Tsivopoulos has written, directed, and produced over 30 short and medium-length films across different countries.
Kuang-yu Tsui
Catalogue : 2022The Wind from Taipei | Experimental fiction | hdv | color | 7:25 | Taiwan | 2020
Kuang-yu Tsui
The Wind from Taipei
Experimental fiction | hdv | color | 7:25 | Taiwan | 2020
Tsui’s works explore the adaptive relationship between humans and social systems, questioning the established structure through actions, and creates survival methods, and redefining reality through his behaviors and experiments. Tsui regards such behaviors as means to measure environmental tolerance, and attempts to highlight the absurdity behind certain social values within the system we are accustomed to. By transforming reality in this way, Tsui’s actions crossed various obstacles, and declares a guerrilla-style intervention, and uncovers invisible relationships in everyday environments.
Born in Taipei, in 1974. In 1997 he graduated from the National Institute of the Arts and has exhibited internationally since, including Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennale, Werkleitz Biennial, Asian Art Museum San Francisco, ZKM Center, Contour Biennial, Chelsea Art Museum, Mori Museum, OK Centrum.
Catalogue : 2007The shortcut to the systematic life: city spirits | Experimental video | dv | color | 4:50 | Taiwan | 2005

Kuang-yu Tsui
The shortcut to the systematic life: city spirits
Experimental video | dv | color | 4:50 | Taiwan | 2005
In this video work of 2005, "The Shortcut of Systematic Life ? City Spirit', Kuang-Yu sought out spaces in both London and Taipei that could be interpreted in two different ways, and that had ambiguous relationships with their environments. In these spaces he then interjected a specific action, using video to transform the entire scene into a temporary yet unreal segment of life. For example, on a thoroughfare with hectic traffic, he would wave a black-and-white checkered flag, as if urging the drivers to take part in a speed race. He would play golf in a certain green spot in the city. Or, on a small path stretching out in a park, I would roll a bowling ball at a flock of pigeons. On the surface, it is a little similar to rediscovering in a stereotypical environment a different level of urban space with which we are familiar, even though this invisible city can only appear for a few minutes or a few short seconds when the action takes place. Nevertheless, compared to "Superficial Circumstance," in which the artist transformed himself by adapting to his external environment, the mimicry that takes place in "City Spirit" transforms and expands the employed cultural symbol from clothing to a recognition of the similarity of environments. These selected environments genuinely possess a certain similarity with the predesignated scene which the artist imposes through his actions (such as imposing a golf course on the "turf" of a traffic island). This seemingly shared similarity appears to be a necessary symbol that determines the existence of a systemic relationship, but we also know that these similarities are not reliable. What the artist?s interjection of similarity underscores is in fact its limitation, and this limitation derives from the existence of institution. "In order to pursue the possibilities that lie within the crevices of the city... at any given time we place ourselves in the exotic moods that arise from the overlapping of fragmentary realities and everyday life." Perhaps we can view "City Spirit" as a form of environmental mimicry on a very large scale: In the name of art, in a series of casual pretences, all of our preconceptions are re-enacted. This self-awareness allows us to engage in these constant dead-end collisions and survive unscathed. Perhaps this is the true triumph of contemporary life.
Tsui, Kuang-Yu was born in 1974 in Taipei, Taiwan. EDUCATION 1997 Taipei National University of the Arts AWARDS 2003 "The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: Superficial Circumstance", Solo Exhibition by K. Y. Tsui in IT Park Gallery & Photo Studio, Taishin Arts Award "Jury?s Special Award" RESIDENCY PROGRAM 2004 Gasworks Studio, London, UK 2006 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten Stichting Trustfonds, Amsterdam, NL
Catalogue : 200718 copper guardians in Shoulin Temple &Penetration | Experimental video | dv | color | 6:43 | Taiwan | 2001

Kuang-yu Tsui
18 copper guardians in Shoulin Temple &Penetration
Experimental video | dv | color | 6:43 | Taiwan | 2001
The artist tries to perceive reality through the performer?s body movements, who confronts with the objects. He repeatedly jumps over different objects such as a window, mailboxes, and even a cow, and then rebounds. This repetitive action reveals his strong desire to be empowered in the physical world. Shao-Lin is a well-known Chinese temple where the legacy of martial art, known as Gong Fu, was originated. These legacies have been depicted in Chinese fictions, soap operas, and films, which represent Gong Fu in an overstated way. The eighteen Copper Guardians are monks who have mastered Gong Fu, and are assigned to protect the temple. They can use their bodies in many magic ways. For instance, they can use their heads to break hard objects. Tsui?s use of this title reveals his inspiration from Chinese legacy and popular culture ,however rather satirical. This Gong Fu monk lives in an urban environment. Gong Fu for him is not a way to show the magic power of body, but rather is just a way of living. He explores how easily he can deal with the obstacles that are in his way in reality. Will the performer?s strong will itself be enough to provide a "shortcut" to penetrate the obstacles and bring him to his desired destination quickly"? The question is apparently ironic and absurd.
AWARDS 2003 "The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: Superficial Circumstance, Solo Exhibition by K. Y. Tsui in IT Park Gallery & Photo Studio", Taishin Arts Award "Jury?s Special Award" RESIDENCY PROGRAM 2004 Gasworks Studio, London, UK 2006 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten Stichting Trustfonds, Amsterdam, NL
Catalogue : 2007The Shortcut to theSystematicLife:Superficial Life | Experimental video | dv | color | 9:54 | Taiwan | 2002

Kuang-yu Tsui
The Shortcut to theSystematicLife:Superficial Life
Experimental video | dv | color | 9:54 | Taiwan | 2002
The art actions of the artist make use of simple digital video documentaries and installations, taking place in a city environment, underscoring the "interjection' of the individual, and serving as a provocative exploration and experimentation with a given environment's capacity for tolerance. In his 2002 video works "The Shortcut of Systematic Life ? Superficial Circumstance," the artist considered mimicry to be the work's key concept. For example, in one film segment, he walks into view of a video camera set at a fixed angle in a certain neighbourhood, and using a single set of clothes deliberately created for the demands of a specific venue and able to dramatically alter the response to the demands of different settings, he 'changes costumes' in front of the camera in order to blend into the environment. This is a morphological strategy, simple yet able to produce an effect of disguise. Frequently, a film segment closes with him walking into a chosen environment and becoming lost in a crowd. As the core concept of an art action, mimicry invokes a biological concept, not only providing a subject within an ecosystem with a tool-like interface that can change according to reality, but also achieving a strategy in which the subject deliberately alters his external appearance in order to penetrate environmental barriers. But these films of 'mimicry' usually include the action of the artist entering, passing through, and exiting the scene. It is an imitation, not an explanation. It is also a declaration of the dissonance among various pre-established identities: You arrive at a certain venue in society and at great pains perform an extremely divergent form of behaviour, acting out the inner drama that occurs in the daily life of urban people ? the attempt to demonstrate that one is no different from anyone else.
Tsui Kuang-Yu was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1974. His education consists of a degree in 1997 from the Taipei National University of the Arts. His awards include: "The Shortcut to the Systematic Life: Superficial Circumstance, Solo Exhibition by K. Y. Tsui in IT Park 2003; and Gallery and Photo Studio, Taishin Arts Award, "Jury's Special Award". He has done two residency programs. One in 2004 at Gasworks Studio in London, England, and at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten Stichting Trustfonds, Amsterdam, Holland in 2006.
Anya Tsyrlina, Sid Iandovka
Catalogue : 2020Horizõn | Experimental film | 35mm | color | 7:0 | Switzerland | 2019
Anya Tsyrlina, Sid Iandovka
Horizõn
Experimental film | 35mm | color | 7:0 | Switzerland | 2019
"An unremarkable random 70’s newsreel from the artists’ hometown in the Soviet Siberia forms the substrate for a relentless exploration of the representational and narratological technics: without ever collapsing into a ‘story’ or abstraction, horizõn recants the relationship between analog and digital, surface and reference, sense and experience, past and present" (Thomas Zummer)
Anya Tsyrlina, Sid Iandovka
Catalogue : 2025COLDER | Experimental doc. | 4k | color | 9:0 | Switzerland, Italy | 2024
Anya Tsyrlina, Sid Iandovka
COLDER
Experimental doc. | 4k | color | 9:0 | Switzerland, Italy | 2024
Filmed in Moscow twenty years after Akerman’s d’Est and over ten years ago, COLDER addresses the deep conundrums of memory, place, and time. A camera locks on to past glories, lingers, skittishly- its tonalities are sombre, nonmetaphoric, obscure and difficult. Iandovka and Tsyrlina’s cinematic approach to memory is closer, more intimate, and more unstable and problematic—more true—to notions of remembrance than other sorts of cinematic representations. An almost graspable (post)cinematic spatiality - a space both interior (subjective and singular) and exterior (collective, communal) overcomes us - complete with an apparitional trace that haunts memory and event alike. COLDER opens the unstable spaces of memory to confront the presence/non-presence of events and our complicated and difficult relations to our histories and our selves.
Sid Iandovka and Anya Tsyrlina (both born and bred in Novosibirsk, USSR) are visual artists often working together on film and video.
Catalogue : 2021All Other Things Equal | Experimental doc. | 35mm | color | 19:30 | Switzerland | 2020
Anya Tsyrlina
All Other Things Equal
Experimental doc. | 35mm | color | 19:30 | Switzerland | 2020
Taking cinematic recontextualisation to the extreme without changing the original context, this radical fairytale magically weaves together hundreds of subtly enigmatic frames and scenes from late Soviet “gender equality” propaganda - creating an elliptical, sensuous, quietly subversive world that provokes and evokes...
Anya Tsyrlina is a Russian-born visual artist. Her moving image work has been recently screened at film festivals and venues such as International Film Festival Rotterdam, Viennale, Berwick Art and Media Festival, Oberhausen, Winterthur, EMAF, MIEFF, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Bildrausch, Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel, Anthology Film Archives, HKW.
Anya Tsyrlina
Catalogue : 2025COLDER | Experimental doc. | 4k | color | 9:0 | Switzerland, Italy | 2024
Anya Tsyrlina, Sid Iandovka
COLDER
Experimental doc. | 4k | color | 9:0 | Switzerland, Italy | 2024
Filmed in Moscow twenty years after Akerman’s d’Est and over ten years ago, COLDER addresses the deep conundrums of memory, place, and time. A camera locks on to past glories, lingers, skittishly- its tonalities are sombre, nonmetaphoric, obscure and difficult. Iandovka and Tsyrlina’s cinematic approach to memory is closer, more intimate, and more unstable and problematic—more true—to notions of remembrance than other sorts of cinematic representations. An almost graspable (post)cinematic spatiality - a space both interior (subjective and singular) and exterior (collective, communal) overcomes us - complete with an apparitional trace that haunts memory and event alike. COLDER opens the unstable spaces of memory to confront the presence/non-presence of events and our complicated and difficult relations to our histories and our selves.
Sid Iandovka and Anya Tsyrlina (both born and bred in Novosibirsk, USSR) are visual artists often working together on film and video.
Catalogue : 2021All Other Things Equal | Experimental doc. | 35mm | color | 19:30 | Switzerland | 2020
Anya Tsyrlina
All Other Things Equal
Experimental doc. | 35mm | color | 19:30 | Switzerland | 2020
Taking cinematic recontextualisation to the extreme without changing the original context, this radical fairytale magically weaves together hundreds of subtly enigmatic frames and scenes from late Soviet “gender equality” propaganda - creating an elliptical, sensuous, quietly subversive world that provokes and evokes...
Anya Tsyrlina is a Russian-born visual artist. Her moving image work has been recently screened at film festivals and venues such as International Film Festival Rotterdam, Viennale, Berwick Art and Media Festival, Oberhausen, Winterthur, EMAF, MIEFF, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Bildrausch, Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel, Anthology Film Archives, HKW.
Hervé Ttrioreau
Catalogue : 2007DV | Video installation | 0 | color and b&w | 64:32 | France, Ukraine | 2006

Hervé Ttrioreau
DV
Video installation | 0 | color and b&w | 64:32 | France, Ukraine | 2006
Ttrioreau completed a project which he had elaborated for many years. At the centre of this proposal is Dziga Vertov's film "L`homme à la caméra". But here as well, an oppositional system presides over Ttrioreau's work. In what measure? To sum it up, Dziga Vertov's film can be described as an attempt to report the activities of the citizens of the city of Odessa in the Ukraine; skimming the ground, the camera is the eye that gives an account of the modernization and industrialization of the city: "L`homme à la caméra" is somehow the point of contact between cinema, city, and citizenship. Furthermore, Dziga Vertov views the film editing as truth, truth more pure than the eye. Yet, Ttrioreau's proposal operates a strict shift from the basis material: in two films, Ttrioreau short-circuits Dziga Vertov's thematic. The first film is a long aerial panoramic doing concentric circles around present day Odessa. The city is placed at a distance with a panoptic vision that becomes manipulable as the architecture and the buildings transform into pure geometric forms. The second film revives one of the announcements published by Dziga Vertov in the Pravda before the release of his film. The contents of this announce - But where has the man with the camera gone? (in Cyrillic) - is tattooed on the artist's back, a process filmed in a long sequence shot. As the buildings become geometric in the first film, it is now the letters in the announcement that transform into volumes, in quasi-sketches of buildings during the tattoo sequence. Distance versus proximity, editing versus shot-sequence: Ttrioreau reverses the relations. Even so, the game is not free because, in the end, as the phrase tattooed on the artist's own flesh shows, an even stronger proximity is reached. What is at stake here is the inscription of the architecture, whose meaning on the body is forever shifting: everything happens as if the skin was taking the place of the eye, a skin understood as a membrane on which the architecture's polysemic sense vibrates. The two films are projected simultaneously, opposite each other in the same temporality. The point of contact between the two projections is not assured by a physical actor but by the immateriality of a sonorous ellipse that unites the two moments in one single and same architecture. Thus a single sonorous screen for the two films, a envelopping quadraphonic where we rediscover the secret virtues of editing. To the visual poles respond the sonorous elements used in the ellipse. The helicopter's rotor on the one hand, mechanic fury of a giant spinning top ("dziga"), and the small tattooing machine with its needles thrown across the chair in singular rotations ("vertov") on the other hand. 64 minutes and 32 seconds of concrete music mixed with the worry of being a structural element against the naive expressiveness of the illustration. The diffusion of sound creates the two films' space of encounter. Extracted from the two dimensions of their screens, they become the architectural space of a disconcerting place for the one who advances, the one who immerses in this multiple scales environment to apprehend with both eye and ear. The memory conjured up here is that of cinema-truth (kino-pravda) where the eye produces the reality as much as it records, questionning in the gyratory and noisy movements, the built spaces in which our bodies witness the restraints of living in them.
Hervé Ttrioreau's proposals come within a reflection linked to the nature of the urban system. His installations move around the very structure of the spaces built. They produce displacements that disturb our perception and display in a political way the normative character of the architecture. His work intervenes in the urban intervals; he establishes junctions in the interior/exterior relations. Taking into account the stakes linked to urbanism, and not looking only at representation, he necessarily creates "in situ" and principally outside the exhibition places. Ttrioreau focuses on the structures of the urban network. His interventions in the state of things in architecture are often very radical and contrary to the established ideas on the role and meaning of the construction domain. In his system of transformations, inside and outside represent only relative notions, as well as the relation between whole and detail, between real space and imaginary space. Where we build, we also demolish: the city and its buildings are variables submitted to market logic. The buildings lose their prestigious character of architectural creation to become just a good opportunity for investment of capital, and when it will stop bringing money, it will be invested elsewhere, leaving these constructions to deteriorate. Only the documents and the models resist these manipulations of the market. Ttrioreau's devices work on the urban zones, on their walls and their memory. Willing to include all the possibilities, he creates hybrid territories that are constituted by default or hegemony and put the body to test by depriving it of the usual partitions. These are transgressed or transgressive spaces that do not offer a definitive equilibrium because the limit becomes blurred to leave space to the interference. If the change always appears imminent, in reality it is already effective: without a real place of existence, he invests a whole territory, transforms it into a hybrid zone where the frontiers withdraw. Ttrioreau presents the production of abnormal structures, immanent to the field of urban normalization. The architecture is static only by way of the controlled identity that it assigns. In proposing an alternative perspective, the installation defines itself as a polemic process. It questions our trust in the structural solidity of buildings, in their immobility and their permanence, to describe them as intervals, passages, transitions...
Nicolas Tubery
Catalogue : 2025Mec 65 Smeraldo | Video | mov | color | 20:0 | France | 2024
Nicolas Tubery
Mec 65 Smeraldo
Video | mov | color | 20:0 | France | 2024
À l’automne 2023, j’ai été invité dans les Côtes-d’Armor, à Locquémeau, à porter mon regard sur le monde paysan le temps d’une résidence artistique. C’est ainsi que j’ai rencontré Audrey, qui a récemment repris la petite cidrerie de son père Gilbert. Le mois de novembre a été celui du ramassage et du pressage des pommes. Cette étape de quelques semaines est d’une importance capitale puisqu'il est question de récolter le jus des pommes pour l’année suivante. Durant cette période, il a été question pour moi d'investir ces différents espaces et temps de travail aux côtés d'Audrey et Aurélie qui est employée pour la saison. Cela m’a permis de comprendre, d’appréhender les éléments, ressentir les matières et leurs poids pour ensuite insérer le regard de ma caméra. Mec 65 Smeraldo est un film monté sur deux écrans différents, évoquant le travail à plusieurs mains, les différents points de vue et positionnements des corps ainsi que la question de la transmission et de l’apprentissage. Le geste et le vivant sont au centre du projet. Le scénario se construit naturellement au rythme des mains et des machines (Mec 65 Smeraldo est le nom de la pompe donnée par Gilbert), contournant les corps et les cuves pour assister à la transformation des fruits en jus.
ue: Nicolas Tubéry est né en 1982 à Carcassonne. Il a étudié à l’Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Céramique de Tarbes puis à l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des beaux arts de Paris où il obtient le DNSAP. Sculpteur et vidéaste, Nicolas Tubéry conjugue les deux pratiques dans ses œuvres. Ses recherches récentes se concentrent sur le monde paysan d'où il vient : ses phénomènes atemporels, comme une foire aux chevaux, mais aussi plus conjoncturels comme les exploitations abandonnées par manque de repreneur. Quel que soit le sujet, il concentre son attention sur les gestes du travail, et sa fascination pour les détails est contagieuse. Observant tout en sculpteur, il adapte le matériel agricole en machinerie cinématographique, puis utilise les mêmes matériaux pour créer les structures monumentales dans lesquelles il projette ses films. Il parvient, avec affection et justesse, à donner une place à la ruralité dans l'art contemporain. Marilou Thiébault
Catalogue : 2016Deman la tonda | Experimental doc. | hdv | color | 11:11 | France | 2015
Nicolas Tubery
Deman la tonda
Experimental doc. | hdv | color | 11:11 | France | 2015
Le dispositif de tournage se développe autour de la lourde planche de bois sur laquelle le paysan y déposera ses brebis une après l`autre pour les aléger de leur laine. L`oeil des caméras disposées sur la structure d`acier accompagne de l’intérieur le déroulement de l’événement, s’appuyant sur les mouvements et les points de vue des barrières. Révélant une chorégraphie de l’effort et du travail des bêtes, Deman La Tonda propose en même-temps d’envisager les mécanismes de la vidéo et du sujet filmé comme un tout, un seul et même acte
Filmer, se faire le témoin d’une action particulière, prélever des morceaux du réel et les assembler, donner une autre vision du spectacle en partant du quotidien. Les films de Nicolas Tubéry sont des témoignages subjectifs sans débuts ni fins, la mise en forme d’une manière de voir et d’être face aux choses. Dans sa volonté de rendre compte d’une situation, d’une atmosphère spécifique, il n’hésite pas à confronter les oppositions. Deux approches cinématographiques contradictoires sont utilisées selon les oeuvres, à savoir la mise en scène minutieuse et toutes les contraintes techniques qui y sont liées, et le cinéma direct caméra au poing qui autorise plus de spontanéité. Dans les deux cas, le hors-champ prend une place aussi importante que l’image elle-même, il en devient indissociable pour tenter de saisir les films dans leur globalité. Ce qui est donné à voir n’est qu’une partie de ce qui doit être vu, le spectateur ne peut pas se contenter de regarder passivement, il est conduit à plonger hors du cadre. Parfois le sujet est ailleurs, comme dans Rodeo où cheval et cavalier sont quasiment absents de l’image, occupée à saisir l’environnement, capter ce qui gravite autour de l’action principale. Ou bien à l’inverse c’est l’ailleurs qui est rendu invisible. Emballeuse nous fait suivre, par plans très rapprochés, chacun des mouvements d’une machine à compacter les bottes de paille. Chaque centimètre carré de l’emballeuse est disséqué par de lents mouvements de caméra. Toute perspective est bannie, pas un aperçu de l’espace alentours ne filtre. Cette décontextualisation quasi permanente isole les personnes ou les objets pour en faire des centres d’attention inhabituels. On retrouve souvent, comme dans Tsukiji, les techniques propres au cinéma comme le ralenti, l’utilisation d’une bande sonore, la mise en place d’une tension grandissante qui mène au climax. Mais à l’inverse du cinéma ces effets sont vains, ils ne servent pas la narration mais valent pour eux-mêmes, influant sur la manière d’observer l’action qui se joue à l’écran. Ils permettent seulement de déclencher une appréhension chez le spectateur, qui par habitude des images rentre dans l’intrigue et s’attend à un déroulement logique, à une suite qui finalement n’arrive jamais. Nicolas Tubéry cherche ainsi à retranscrire une vision personnelle, nous montrer une chose sous un angle bien précis pour nous contraindre à regarder de la même manière que lui, en nous invitant à voir au-delà. Aurélien Pelletier,2011 Formellement très différentes les trois oeuvres de Nicolas Tubéry s’articulent autour du même axe : l’attente d’un évènement spectaculaire à venir, qui n’arrive pas. Gros plans, tensions palpables Nicolas Tubéry nous propose une réflexion en trois actes sur la grammaire cinématographique et plus particulièrement sur le cadrage. L`artiste en appelle à nos capacités de narration, tout en jouant avec nos attentes. Il laisse le mystère entier… partiellement, puisque les titres font figure de prétérition. Supporter pose la question des frontières entre réalité et fiction en mettant en scène des gestes expressifs pouvant fonctionner comme emblème. Rodéo travaille l’omniprésence du hors-champ à partir de la bande son. Ces deux films pourraient être engloutis tout entier dans Screen qui les place hors-champ, pour ne s’intéresser qu’au phénomène de la projection. Leila Simon pour Jeune Création 2011 Dans son installation vidéo, Nicolas Tubéry met en regard trois moments suspendus, plongeant le spectateur dans une véritable frustration. Littéralement « en attentes », l’œuvre autant que celui qui la regardent abandonnent toute action, toute résolution. Car ce tryptique Rodeo, Screen et Supporter mêlant un cadre de projection vide, une foule en attente d’un évenement et ce qui ressemble à la fin d’un spectacle offre trois temporalités « déviantes » qui se répondent et viennent s’amplifier en jouant sur l’incidence d’un temps non pas seulement révolu mais bien condamné à ne plus jamais “passer”. Guillaume Benoit pour Slash Magazine,2011
Catalogue : 20141408-Jorn Festiu | Experimental doc. | hdv | | 5:39 | France | 2013
Nicolas Tubery
1408-Jorn Festiu
Experimental doc. | hdv | | 5:39 | France | 2013
L?événement n?est pas clairement défini. Le cadre plongeant défile lentement au dessus d?une longue table de jardin, laissant deviner la fin d?un barbecue un après-midi d?été. La caméra remonte et s?arrête sur un fanion plastique d?une guirlande annonçant la fête. De par la nature de l?image et notamment ses mouvements (panoramiques fluides, amplitude du cadre), le film semble être la reconstitution d?une petite fête de village. Il n?en est rien. 1408-Jorn Festiu documente le réel, usant d?un mode de captation directe faisant référence à celui utilisé dans l?événementiel. Une grue est introduite au centre d?une vrai fête privée dont les motifs sont habituellement saisis par les smartphones et autres outils portables. Ainsi nous reconnaissons la préparation d?un mechoui, la célébration d?un anniversaire, le coin bar, une piste de dance improvisée ou encore les fumigènes de fin de soirée. Le point de vue donne une certaine distance sur l?événement affectif et privé pour en proposer une analyse visuelle, un document, l?archive d?un jour de fête, un jour festif, jorn festiu.
Nicolas Tubery
Catalogue : 2019Maquignon | Experimental doc. | hdv | color | 17:54 | France | 2017
Nicolas Tubery
Maquignon
Experimental doc. | hdv | color | 17:54 | France | 2017
"Maquignon" se déroule à 80 kilomètres de Toulouse, aux Cammazes, une commune proche de la Montagne Noire. Là, il plonge dans l'atmosphère d'une foire aux chevaux en s'arrêtant sur les relations entre paysans et petits marchands de bestiaux "les maquignons", sur le langage des hommes et des animaux, parle? ou silencieux. Le film embrasse diffe?rents aspects de cet événement : aussi bien les négociations d'achat, la préparation et le soin des chevaux ou les moments de convivialité que les temps morts, quand la tension s'évapore.
Nicolas Tubéry est né en 1982 à Carcassonne. Il a étudié à l'Ecole Supérieure d'Art et de Céramique de Tarbes puis à l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des beaux arts de Paris où il obtient le DNSAP. Sculpteur et vidéaste, Nicolas Tubéry conjugue les deux pratiques dans ses œuvres. Ses recherches récentes se concentrent sur le monde paysan d`où il vient : ses phénomènes atemporels, comme une foire aux chevaux, mais aussi plus conjoncturels comme les exploitations abandonnées par manque de repreneur. Quel que soit le sujet, il concentre son attention sur les gestes du travail, et sa fascination pour les détails est contagieuse. Observant tout en sculpteur, il adapte le matériel agricole en machinerie cinématographique, puis utilise les mêmes matériaux pour créer les structures monumentales dans lesquelles il projette ses films. Il parvient, avec affection et justesse, à donner une place à la ruralité dans l`art contemporain.
Nuno Tudela
Catalogue : 2006Atmosfera Reduzida | Experimental video | dv | color | 2:0 | Portugal | 2005

Nuno Tudela
Atmosfera Reduzida
Experimental video | dv | color | 2:0 | Portugal | 2005
Atmosfera Reduzida Video, specially made for the Cronica 021-2005 DVD: "Can I have 2 minutes of your time?". All Images by Nuno Tudela Audio by Pedro Tudela
Nuno Tudela is a video artist and filmmaker, based in Porto, Portugal
Catalogue : 2006guandong tuning tone | Experimental video | dv | color and b&w | 2:0 | Portugal | 2005

Nuno Tudela
guandong tuning tone
Experimental video | dv | color and b&w | 2:0 | Portugal | 2005
Guandong tuning tone Video, specially made for the Cronica 021-2005 DVD: "Can I have 2 minutes of your time?". All Images by Nuno Tudela Audio by Pedro Tudela
Nuno Tudela is a video artist and filmmaker based in Porto, Portugal.
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Catalogue : 2022The Single Screen | Experimental doc. | hdv | color | 135:32 | Belgium, USA | 2021

Joëlle Tuerlinckx
The Single Screen
Experimental doc. | hdv | color | 135:32 | Belgium, USA | 2021
The key work, The Single Screen, provides an insight into the series of performances that Joëlle Tuerlinckx and her ‘That's it!’-team brought to the world-renowned museum Dia Beacon (US) between 2015 and 2018 invited by Jessica Morgan (Nathalie de Gunsberg Director, Dia Art Foundation). As such, the artist confronts, in a conceptual and humorous way, the experience of time and space at a museum with that of a cinema. On a projection screen, the space expands, overflows, unfolds its topics, double and multiple. A co-production by Escautville, Dia Art Foundation, the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) and S.M.A.K. (Ghent, BE).
Since the 1990s, and mainly after her participation in Documenta 11 in 2002, the artistic journey of the Belgian artist Joëlle Tuerlinckx (°1958) has gained momentum, with solo and group exhibitions in major institutions around the world (including the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid in 2009, the Haus der Kunst in Munich in 2013, the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg in 2014 and her participation in Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2017). Today Tuerlinckx is among the most internationally renowned Belgian artists of her generation.
Rojda Tugrul
Catalogue : 2025In the World of Possibilities | Animation | hdv | color | 0:0 | Turkey | 2023
Rojda Tugrul
In the World of Possibilities
Animation | hdv | color | 0:0 | Turkey | 2023
The animated film depicts a female arctic fox’s epic journey from Norway to Canada in 2018. In her inter-continental journey, she covered 3507 km in seventy-six days, across vast and changing landscapes, transitioning from marine ecosystems to land-based prey. Her voyage highlights the understanding and adaptability of wildlife across diverse environments, providing exploration of survival and migration in the natural world.
Rojda Tu?rul is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose work focuses on identity in relation to space and time. Her early work examined the impact of war on ecological and cultural heritage within the socio-political framework of Kurdish territories, leading to her interest in analysing consciousness and cognition, both in human societies and the ecological world. Rojda examines sociopolitical landscapes as reflections of changes in cultural and ecological identity. Rojda holds an MSc in Veterinary Studies and a PhD in Practice from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Jan Pieter Tuinstra
Catalogue : 2006The Story of Boris | Experimental doc. | dv | color | 20:0 | Netherlands | 2005

Jan Pieter Tuinstra
The Story of Boris
Experimental doc. | dv | color | 20:0 | Netherlands | 2005
?The story of Boris? shows the sessions of a traumatised war refugee with his psychiatrist. Edited sequences of the latest session are uploaded weekly, along with other files on the history, treatment and life of the patient. This way a dossier is created to reconstruct Boris?s past. Boris is suffering from PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) as a result of the war he fled from. Because of this disorder his story is fragmented. In order to recover, his memories and the reality of war have to be disclosed. What are the events that Boris went through? Which role did he play during the war? The audience is free to investigate Boris?s past and present by browsing the files at this website and take an independent view in search for the truth.
Jan Pieter Tuinstra - 1971 -, Graduated in 1995 at Art Academy St.Joost (Breda, The Netherlands) . His final examination film `Voyage until the end of a journey` was awarded with the Cinema Citroën Award as best Dutch Academy Film. Ever since he has worked as a freelance director and scriptwriter. Tuinstra`s documentary approach is characterised by profoundly composed images that together with an attractive use of voice over, result in strongly layered films. His keen eye for human relations and behaviour guarantees honest pictorial narratives.
Richard Tuohy
Catalogue : 2025The Land at Night | Experimental film | 16mm | color | 13:50 | Australia | 2024
Richard Tuohy
The Land at Night
Experimental film | 16mm | color | 13:50 | Australia | 2024
I used to find the dusk a very unsettling time, as though the approaching night was something to be feared. It was as if, once night fell you could not flee, and had to face unspecified consequences. Maybe the land remembers and the night will reveal what we might have done...
Biography Richard Tuohy (b. 1969, Melbourne, Aus.) began making works on super 8 in the late nineteen eighties. After a brief hiatus from cinema (including formal study in philosophy for seven years) he returned to film-making in 2004. Initially working exclusively in Super 8, the next five years saw an extremely productive period with dozens of experiments and works finished in the small gauge. In 2006 he, along with his partner Dianna Barrie, launched nanolab, a super 8 film processing laboratory based at their home in Daylesford Victoria. The establishment of this lab afforded the opportunity to set up darkrooms and install 16mm film processing and most importantly printing and sound recording equipment. Since 2009 he has been an active and vocal member of the international artist run film lab scene. In 2011 Richard and Dianna started the Artist Film Workshop which in 2012 became a membership based artist-run film lab, itself also part of the international labs network. AFW has become the center of experimental film practice on film in Australia, being the focus for regular experimental film screenings, touring artists programs, workshops and supporting numerous artists in their personal film practice.
Catalogue : 2019China not China | Experimental film | 16mm | color | 14:0 | Australia | 2018
Richard Tuohy
China not China
Experimental film | 16mm | color | 14:0 | Australia | 2018
Hong Kong marked 20 years since its hand over; half way through the planned 40 year `one country, two systems` transition. Taiwan, once imperial China, once Formosa, now ROC on the edge of the PRC. Multiple exposures of street scenes distort space and place creating a fluid sense of impermanence and transition, of two states somewhere between China and not China.
Richard Tuohy (b. 1969, Melbourne, Aus.) began making works on super 8 in the late nineteen eighties. Since 2009 he has been an active and vocal member of the international artist run film lab scene. In 2011 Richard and Dianna started the Artist Film Workshop which in 2012 became a membership based artist-run film lab, itself also part of the international labs network. An advocate for the possibilities of hand made cinema, Tuohy has devoted much time and effort in sharing his knowledge through workshops and classes both in his native Australia and internationally. His films and film based performances have screened at venues including the Melbourne IFF, EMAF (Osnabruck), Rotterdam IFF, New York FF, Ann Arbor and Media City and he has repeatedly toured Europe, North America and Asia presenting solo programs of his work and conducting experimental film-making workshops.
Catalogue : 2018Pancoran | Experimental film | 16mm | black and white | 9:0 | Australia | 2017
Richard Tuohy
Pancoran
Experimental film | 16mm | black and white | 9:0 | Australia | 2017
Jakarta traffic moves with the harmonious chaos of complex self organising entities everywhere. Through contact printer matteing techniques this mass transport becomes denser and denser until only the fluid futility of motion/motionlessness remains. Jakarta traffic stands as proof of the paradox of motion.
Richard Tuohy (b. 1969, Melbourne, Aus.) began making works on super 8 in the late nineteen eighties. In 2006 he, along with his partner Dianna Barrie, launched nanolab, a super 8 film processing laboratory in Australia. The establishment of this lab afforded the opportunity to set up darkrooms and install 16mm film processing and most importantly printing and sound recording equipment. Since 2009 he has been an active and vocal member of the international artist run film lab scene. Tuohy`s own works are firmly in the `hand-made` film tradition. An advocate for the possibilities of hand made cinema, Tuohy has devoted much time and effort in sharing his knowledge through workshops and classes both in his native Australia and internationally. His films and film based performances have screened at venues including the Melbourne IFF, EMAF (Osnabruck), Rotterdam IFF, New York FF, Ann Arbor and Media City and he has repeatedly toured Europe, North America and Asia presenting solo programs of his work and conducting experimental film-making workshops. He is the instigator of the AFW magazine Film Is and, along with Dianna Barrie and Sue K, was also a co-founder of the AIEFF experimental film festival in Melbourne.
Arthur Tuoto
Catalogue : 20154xELEPHANT | Video | hdv | color | 3:0 | Brazil | 2014
Arthur Tuoto
4xELEPHANT
Video | hdv | color | 3:0 | Brazil | 2014
By placing side by side four sequences from the movie Elephant (2003), by Gus Van Sant, the work explores the simultaneous actions in the film, revealing elliptical nuances in its filmic dispositif.
Arthur Tuoto works between visual art and cinema, producing a variety of works from video installations to experimental short and feature films. From appropriations to others audiovisual recontextualizations, the filmmaker`s body of work seeks to explore, by resignifying pre-existing materials, new possibilities in the audiovisual language, as well as to question the concept of intellectual property and authorship.
Raewyn Turner, Colin BEARDON
Catalogue : 2007World Tree | Création numérique | 0 | color | 4:30 | New Zealand | 2005

Raewyn Turner, Colin BEARDON
World Tree
Création numérique | 0 | color | 4:30 | New Zealand | 2005
"World Tree" is about the contemporary notion of 'information'. We hang onto written texts in the belief that we can extract all their meaning. We keep masses of written and printed material that we will never read, giving us a false sense of security. "World Tree" plays with this phenomenon, presenting glimpses of texts which are puzzling but which also disintegrate before our eyes. The fragments drift like poorly-remembered facts or stories. Knowledge is promised, but always eludes us. The juxtaposition of the sole-authored text (forming the trunk and canopy of the tree) with text from the wider universe (forming the flowers and petals) is designed to highlight tensions between our subjective sensations and a universe accessed through digital communication (gathered from various websites, eg. amateur astronomy, tissue culture and cell technologies). "World Tree" ushers in the visual tongue of 'information', knitting it into a synthetic experience of the physical world. We understand the world systematically, that is, with our whole body, not just our eyes or ears or fingers or nose or tongue. The metaphor is the Tree which is a whole biological system through which the world is known. "World Tree" is a standalone application written in REALBasic.
Colin Beardon's work spans the creative arts and computer sciences, and concentrates on the interaction of technical expertise and the creative process. He developed the software 'Visual Assistant' for prototyping 3D environments, and has built innovative multimedia systems for museums. He is now interested in developing styles of programming that resemble sketching. He is a founding member of 'Computers in Art & Design Education' and is co-editor of the journal 'Digital Creativity'. After working in Australia, the UK, and Sweden, he returned to New Zealand in 2003 and currently holds a visiting professorship in the Department of Computer Science at Waikato University. Raewyn Turner's work is concerned with cross-sensory perception and technologies that are shaping an extrasensory perception of the world. Her works include video, colour, smell and sound for screen, installation, and live performance, including concerts for the hearing impaired with a symphony orchestra. Her works have been shown in numerous national and international exhibitions, including NZ Film Festival, Te Papa; Los Angeles MOCA; Canada; Germany; and Australia. She has an extensive background working with coloured light with contemporary performance on international tours in Britain, USA, Canada, Australia, and Europe. Her work is published in 'Art, Culture and Biotechnology', EAF, Australia, and 'Performance Research'(On Smell), UK.
Bianca Turner
Catalogue : 2025Eva | Performance | mp4 | color | 10:47 | Brazil | 2022
Bianca Turner
Eva
Performance | mp4 | color | 10:47 | Brazil | 2022
"Eva" is a sequence shot from an audiovisual performative video art piece that simulates an acting test, where a naked female body is positioned within the iconic biblical imagery of Eve and Adam. The performance is directed by a male voice behind the camera, guiding the attempt to embody and conform to these archetypal representations.
Bianca Turner works across a diverse array of mediums, including video, video art, video performances, video installations, expanded cinema, audiovisual actions, urban interventions, and video mapping. Her practice critically engages with the concept of the archive as an imperialist imposition, while also exploring how time and space can be expanded through audiovisual technologies and video projection, particularly in relation to the human body. Turner holds a BA in Design and Performance Practice from Central Saint Martins (2011, London) and a Master's in Scenography from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (2013, London). Her career has seen her participate in prominent exhibitions, such as BIENALSUR and the 2023 exhibition Ese Frágil Equilibrio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as well as Mulheres em Luta! Archives of Political Memory at the Memorial of Resistance in São Paulo, Brazil (2023). Turner also collaborated with Neo Muyanga and the Collective Legítima Defesa on the opening performance of the 34th São Paulo Biennial (2020). Other notable appearances include the Verbo Festival of Performance Art (2018, 2022, Vermelho Gallery), the 40th Arte Pará and the 1st Salon of Art of Goiás (2022, MAC), the 46th SARP (MARP) in 2021, and the SSA Mapping Festival (2018, 2023). She also participated in the Reencontre Audiovisualle #7 in Lille (2024), with Honorable Mention from the Jury. Her work, which she defines as expanded video, utilizes video mapping, video performances, and video art to challenge and expand the notions of time-space, while reclaiming narratives and interrogating the role of archives in shaping history.