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La bibliothèque d'Alexandrie était le lieu de recherches le plus important du monde de l'Antiquité. Détruite dans des circonstances encore inexpliquées, elle a repris vie sous l'égide du gouvernement égyptien et de l'UNESCO et a rouvert en 2002. Les Egyptiens eux-mêmes sont très fiers de leur projet, et les responsables font leur possible pour faire renaître le mythe de l'ancienne bibliothèque. La réalisatrice Anke Limprecht; elle-même bibliothécaire, dresse un portrait du quotidien dans la plus grande salle de lecture du monde, - une pierre supplémentaire apposée à l'édifice de l'histoire de la bibliothèque. http://www.khm.de/~ankel/Filme/Bibliotheca_Alexandria/alexandria_eng_/alexandria_eng_.html

"Née en 1967 à Biberach/Riss. Après cinq années d?activité professionnelle comme bibliothécaire, elle entame en 1998 des études à la « Kunsthochschule » de Cologne, centrées sur le film documentaire et l?art dans les médias. Elle mène de front ses études et un travail d?archiviste à la cinémathèque de Bonn. Elle prépare actuellement son prochain documentaire sur l?archivage à long terme du patrimoine culturel allemand et partage sa vie et son travail entre Bonn et Cologne."

The Battle of Algiers recomposes scenes from the 1966 film of the same name (English title; official title: La Battaglia di Algeri) by Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo. The original film is a reenactment of the Algerian nationalist struggle leading to independence from France in 1962. The success of the actual battle for independence has been attributed to the nationalists` organization: a pyramidal structure of self-organized cells. Using a computational algorithm, Lafia and Lin re-present the film along a cell-based structure, in which French Authority and the Algerian Nationalist cells are represented by stills from the film and move according to different rule sets. When cells of different camps intersect, they trigger video cells displaying each side`s tactics - as depicted in the film - according to the rules of the system. The audience may interact with the piece by triggering varied algorithmic trajectories or creating new cell arrangements.

Marc Lafia has shown work internationally in seminal exhibitions such as ZKM`s Net Condition and Future Cinema, The Walker Art Center`s Let`s Entertain, as well as venues including the Georges Pompidou, The ICC Tokyo and other museums and art centers. Throughout his work, including his films and photographs, the image is not understood as a representation or a record of an event but as an event in itself, an entire mode of "going." For Lafia, computation and algorithmic procedures allow for the production of new structures of organizing image and information, as well as new ways of distributing affects and emotions. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at Columbia University. Fang-Yu Lin, born in Taiwan, is a New York-based new media artist and designer whose artwork reflects the interplay of human experience, culture, and technology. His works have been exhibited in many venues, including Whitney Artport, Tate online, SIGGRAPH, Sonar Festival, FILE São Paulo, Chelsea Art Museum, Felissimo Design House, Bauhaus Dessau and Seoul New Media Festival. He received Honorary Mention in the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica (Net Vision).

En 1964, quand Philippe de Broca tourne L?homme de Rio, Brasília est un vaste chantier. Avant d?abriter les hautes classes sociales recherchées, la ville doit composer avec une population indésirable mais indispensable, les constructeurs. Appelés aussi « candagos », cette population immigrée représente 55% de la population active, mais il n?est pas question pour le gouvernement qu?elle s?installe durablement dans le District fédéral. Aussi est-elle logée directement sur le chantier ou dans les villes satellites. La vidéo Os candagos est tirée d?un extrait de L?homme de Rio qui se déroule à Brasilia. Outre la dimension burlesque du film original, ce passage offre un point de vue exceptionnel sur la ville en 1964. La séquence est retravaillée image par image ; Belmondo y est effacé ainsi que toute trace de vie. Par ce geste j?ai voulu fondre les notions de matérialité et d?utopie en un même mouvement pour questionner les enjeux de la réalisation d?un projet tel que Brasilia. Les traces laissées par le processus d?effacement révèlent a fortiori une certaine présence ; celle des acteurs et des ouvriers. Le vent et la poussière règnent. Brasilia, point d?orgue du modernisme, devient ville fantôme.

Né à Montereau (77) en 1978, titulaire d?un Diplôme Supérieur d?Arts Appliqués (Ecole Boulle, Paris, 2002) et d?un DPLG (ENS Malaquais, Paris, 2007), Guillaume Linard-Osorio questionne dans son travail la notion de projet et les outils de représentation du réel. L?acte de déconstruction et l?acte de construction y sont des processus similaires qui permettent de révéler les fondements de notre environnement, la face cachée, l?insondable parfois. Ses compositions, quel que soit le medium utilisé, s?apparentent à des formes architectoniques libérées de toute fonctionnalité ou à des matériaux bruts, en attente de mise en forme. Sa production se situe en quelques sortes dans l?épaisseur même du décor. Partant d?une confrontation du monde des images à celui de la matière, son travail oscille entre documentation du réel et fiction pour finalement s?encrer dans un territoire insolite, à mi-chemin entre mécanique et illusion. S?intéressant davantage aux conditions de l??uvre qu?à l??uvre elle-même, Guillaume Linard-Osorio perçoit le monde physique comme un système d?objets dont les connexions seraient redevenues conceptuelles. Dans son travail l?interprétation vacille, les objets cohabitent avec leur fantôme, le temps est suspendu, étiré, parfois inversé, rien est accompli. Tout reste en puissance.

MAMMAL HALL (2022) is a polyphonic, sensory study of museums and the questions that arise as we wander through them. The film was created during the pandemic while in residence at the Museum of Natural History at the University of Iowa by Stephanie Miracle, Auden Lincoln-Vogel, and Ramin Roshandel. The three artists center their creative process around dialogic listening practices with “space”. MAMMAL HALL is an anti-dance film. Differing from traditional dance films that center on virtuosic movement performed by the dancer, this work references the Anthropocene and questions the dominance of humans in the narrative by literally placing the bodies of the dancers at a lower level in both the space and the camera frame. The shift in hierarchy elevates the motionless animals and draws attention to the timeless and time-bound qualities of the “natural” and artificial spaces of natural history museums and the complex histories they house.

“Mammal Hall” Directors’ Bio Stephanie Miracle (choreographer), Auden Lincoln-Vogel (cinematographer) and Ramin Roshandel (composer) are an Iowa-based artistic team that has produced two collaborative dance films - "Hyperdistanced" (2020) and "Mammal Hall" (2022), with several other projects in the works.

The work deals with the nature of ephemeral substances and its immanent processes and thus approaches the contrast between the materiality of fleetingness and the human need for control and rather clear forms. In AGENS, clouds and fog come and go, however only featured in interiors. Everyday scenes of the ephemeral - such as smoke from a cigarette, steam coming from a kettle or a dishwasher - gradually turn into peculiar cloud and fog phenomena. While becoming denser and more surreal, familiar vapors get increasingly detached from their conformed functionality. When their fleeting materiality meets the solid and clear structure of the architecture, it seems as though these textures slowly merge into each other. The inner driving force of the ongoing processes inherent in ephemeral substances becomes a mysterious protagonist.

Steffi Lindner grew up in Berlin, where she lives and works, creating videos, drawings, objects and installations. She finished her postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in 2013, has received various grants and fellowships and participated in exhibitions & festivals e.g. at Images Festival, Gallery YYZ (Toronto), Art Cologne, Erarta Motion Pictures (St. Petersburg), NADA Art Fair Miami, Liste Basel, Festival International Exit (Creteil), Interfilm-Festival (Berlin), Capla Kesting Fine Art Gallery (NYC). Lyoudmila Milanova was born in Varna, Bulgaria and has been living and working in Cologne, Germany since 2000. After achieving a M.A. degree in media science at the university in Cologne, she finished her postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne 2011. In her artistic work she deals with natural phenomena, technology and time processes. Her installations and videos have been awarded numerous scholarships and grants, as well as internationally exhibited, including shows in Berlin, Seoul, Kyoto, New York, Rotterdam and Moscow.

une femme et sa horde de paparazzis...

Fiona lindron vit et travaille à dijon, elle obtient son dnsep l?ENSA Dijon en 2006. Les vidéos, photographies et installations émanent de rencontres humaines et géographiques. Elles font référence au genre cinématographique mais ne livre aucune explication ni dialogue. Ces images sont le reflet de l?état mental des personnages, de son rapport fantasmé aux rencontres. Elle participe de 1998 à 2002 à des événements collectifs au Point éphémère, au Batofar, à Mainsd?oeuvre Paris(France), à l?emaf festival Osnabrueck (Allemagne). Le travail de fiona lindron a été montré au Wharf centre d?art contemporain Basse Normandie 2007 Hérouville st clair(France), au festival bandits-mages Bourges 2007(France), à Opticafestival 2007 Gijon (Espagne), à Nuitblanche 2007 Paris(France), au Oneminutefestival 2007 Araau(Suisse)... Elle réalise actuellement en résidence à bandits-mages un film fantastique tourné sur un navire dans l?Océan Indien.

Bricks are gathering and separating to form landscapes in endless motion and recklessly renewed.

Patrick Lindasay is born in Marseille in 1972, he is graduated from the Ensama then Ensad in 1997. Since 1999, he?s back in Marseille, where he works as graphite and typographist. Inspired by his childhood and his games, the game is the main theme of his work. He declines his colourful and funny universe on many supports: posters, illustrations, and animations? From 2001, he is interested in video in real time and takes part in many venues (Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, Territoire électroniques, Fondation Vasarely, Festival Arborescence, Aix?) In 2005, he creates the Typophone, a sound and typographic experience.

A train passes by in spite of the fream-like smoke that comes out of.

Patrcik Lindsay is born in Marseilles in 1972 and is graduated form the Ensama then the Ensad in 1997. Since 1999, he lives in Marseilles, where he works as a graphic artist and typographer. Inspired by his childhood and his toys, le game is the main theme of his work. He declines his colored universe on many supports: posters, illustrations, animations? Since 2001, he is interested into video in real time and takes part in numerous events (Friche Belle de Mai, Fondation Vasarely, Festival Arborescence, Aix? In 2005, he creates the Typophone, a sound typography experience.

A lunar eclipse event on September 11, 2003, was documented and translated via the light-sensitive medium of Kodachrome film. In the 4th century BC, Aristotle founded The Lyceum, a school for the study of all-natural phenomena pursued without the aid of mathematics, which was considered too perfect for application on the imperfect terrestrial sphere. This film then, in the spirit of...

Jeanne Liotta lives and works in New York City where she makes films and other ephemera, including video and photography, and works on paper and live projection performances. She was represented in the 2006 Whitney Biennial with her 16mm 2005 film "Eclipse". Her work has screened at The New York Film Festival; KunstFilm Biennale, Cologne; The Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley; The Museum of Modern Art; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. She is also a researcher and traveling lecturer for The Joseph Cornell Film Collection at Anthology Film Archives. Her latest project, 'Observando el Cielo' consists largely of 16mm time-lapse recordings of the night sky and encompasses a constellation of mediums in an Emersonian framework at the intersection of art, science, and natural philosophy. She also teaches widely, including at The New School and Pratt Institute in New York City, The San Francisco Art Institute, The Museum School in Boston, and is presently on faculty at the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College.

Seven years of celestial field recordings gathered from the chaos of the cosmos and inscribed onto 16mm film from various locations upon this turning tripod Earth. This work is neither a metaphor nor a symbol, but is feeling towards a fact in the midst of perception, which time flows through. Natural VLF radio recordings of the magnetosphere in action allow the universe to speak for itself. The Sublime is Now. Amor Fati!

Jeanne Liotta lives and works in New York City where she makes films and other ephemera. including video, photography, works on paper and live projection performances. Her latest project `Observando El Cielo` takes place in a constellation of mediums investigating the cosmic landscape at a curious intersection of art, science and natural philosophy. She was represented in the 2006 Whitney Biennial with her 16mm film Eclipse and her work been exhibited at The New York Film Festival ; KunstFilm Biennale, Cologne; The Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley; The Museum of Modern Art; and The Whitney Museum of American Art among others. She has been the recipient of awards from The Jerome Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, and shared the Museum of Contemporary Cinema artist award with Taka Imura in 2006. She also lectures and maintains ongoing research into The Joseph Cornell Film Collection at Anthology Film Archives and teaches widely and variously, including The New School, Pratt Institute, The San Francisco Art Institute, The Museum School, Boston, and is presently on the faculty at the Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College.

A few simple techniques of the cinema--a direct quotation, a framed location, an actress in costume, a few cuts to the quick--conspire in a compact couple of minutes to produce an image replete with historical and geographic visibility, to wit:  an implied and uncontainable expanse of a landscape bought, sold and inhabited. An anti-landscape film and a one-two punch. -JL

Jeanne Liotta was born and raised in New York City. She makes film, video and other cultural ephemera such as works on paper , photographs, projection performances, and intimate installations. Her playful investigations into time, space, and perception itself, are manifested through the observation of various and contingent subjects: the cosmos, landscape, pure abstraction, the body in space, the cinema itself, or knowledge systems such as science and language. Her work encompasses a constellation of mediums often located at a lively intersection of art, science, and natural philosophy, exemplified by her award-winning 16mm films of the night skies Observando El Cielo (2007), Eclipse (2005) as seen in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, and more recently with installations such as Diagram Squared (2013) at Microscope Gallery in Bklyn NY. In 2011 Liotta was voted amongst the top filmmakers of the decade by Film Comment magazine and in 2012 received the Helen Hill Award from the Orphans Film Symposium. Her works have been exhibited at The New York Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Pompidou in Paris, MCA Denver, The Sharjah Biennial, Arthouse Jones Center in Austin, The Exploratorium SF, and the Cornell Astronomical Society at Fuertes Observaotory, amongst numerous others. She also maintains ongoing research into The Joseph Cornell Film Collection at Anthology Film Archives, has worked with public film materials from the New York Public Library for her garden series Firefly Cinema in NYC for over 15 years, and more recently has curated programs of moving image poetics for Counterpath Press in Denver CO. She has taught widely and variously, at The New School, Pratt Institute, The San Francisco Art Institute, The Museum School Boston, and is presently Assistant Professor of Film Studies at The Univ. of Colorado Boulder, as well as film video faculty for the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, NY.

Animated portrait of the eponymous television tower on the hill, guardian of fog and electronic signals in that earthshaking city by the bay San Francisco.

Jeanne Liotta splits her time between her hometown of New York City and Boulder Colorado where she is currently an Assistant Professor of Film.

Un exercice de prononciation d`une nouvelle en italien croise les images d`une maison abandonnée…

Lucrezia Lippi est cinéaste. Diplômée de l’Université Paris VII et de la HEAD – Genève, son champ d’activité se partage entre la théorie et la pratique du cinéma. Réalisatrice de "Cunta Su", sélectionné au 26ème Festival Entrevues Belfort. Assistante de recherche du projet « Start making sense ! Cinéma et art contemporains transforment l’essai » entre 2012 et 2014. Elle accompagne des projets artistiques et collabore régulièrement au journal du festival Cinéma du Réel (Paris) dont elle a été rédacteur en chef en 2014. Actuellement, elle écrit un nouveau projet de film.

QEM consists of installation, action and program, whose goal is to extend the notion of art by dealing with randomness. I reveal the process of radioactive decay as the best and strongest manifestation of the idea of randomness. Thorium is a medium of my idea: I have chosen Thorium as radioactive material, which is the source of fundamental random processes and is not associated with art. Thorium is a source of dispersion and real disorder. The use of Thorium is the use of raw material which is not subject to power of will. The real performative element contained in the action reveals pure process of decay and energy emission.

Robert B. LISEK is an artist, mathematician and composer who focuses on systems and processes (computational, biological, social). He is involved in the number of projects focused on radical art strategies, hacktivism and tactical media. Drawing upon conceptual art, software art and meta-media, his work intentionally defies categorization. Lisek is a pioneer of art based on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Lisek is also a composer of contemporary music, author of many projects and scores on the intersection of spectral, stochastic, concret music, musica futurista and noise: http://lisek.bandcamp.com/ Lisek is also a scientist who conducts a research in the area of foundations of mathematics and computer science. His research interests are theory of ordered sets, logic, algebra, category theory in relation with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Lisek is a founder of Institute for Research in Science and Art, Fundamental Research Lab and ACCESS Art Symposium. Author of many exhibitions and concerts, among others: QUANTUM ENIGMA - Harvestworks Center New York and STEIM Amsterdam; TERROR ENGINES - WORM Center Rotterdam, Secure Insecurity - ISEA Istanbul; DEMONS - Venice Biennale (accompanying events); Manifesto vs. Manifesto - Ujazdowski Castel of Contemporary Art, Warsaw; NGRU - FILE, Sao Paulo; NEST - ARCO Art Fair, Madrid; Float - DMAC Harvestworks and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC; WWAI - Siggraph, Los Angeles; Falsecodes - Red Gate Gallery, Beijing; Gengine - National Gallery, Warsaw; Flextex - Byzantine Museum, Athens, FXT- ACA Media Festival, Tokyo and ISEA, Nagoya.

La película infinita, the new film by Argentine filmmaker and curator of the film museum in Buenos Aires, Leandro Listorti, is an essay film about a parallel history of cinema, based on remains of Argentine films that were never completed. Edited by renowned filmmaker Felipe Guerrero (whose Oscuro animal premiered in IFFR`s Tiger Competition two years ago), it is a film created from fragments of other people`s films that somehow never really existed. As such, it is a cinematic Frankenstein, coming to life in front of our very own eyes. In a country where the remains are of fundamental importance in understanding the past, La película infinita offers a window to forgotten memories, and invites the viewer to evaluate its own culture and identity. The stories and the images, once considered unsuccessful, have now taken on a new meaning. Inert images and sounds never heard are finally opened up for fresh discovery.

Leandro Listorti was born in 1976 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After graduating from Filmmaking School he attended workshops with filmmakers such as Patricio Guzman, Martín Rejtman, Pablo Reyero and Harun Farocki and shot a series of short films in Super 8 dealing with the ideas of travel and memory. In 2010 he finished his first film DEATH YOUTH, which screened in numerous festivals. He writes about film, teaches and since 2005 he is Film Programmer at Bafici Film Festival. He also worked as Assistant Director in several films. In 2012 he participated in Archivo Expandido (Expanded Archive) an expanded cinema experience screened in festivals such as Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels) and S8 Mostra de Cine Periférico (Spain). He is one of the founders of A.R.C.A. (Regional Archive for Amateur Cinema), and one of the twenty five directors of INTERVENED EVENTS, produced by the Film Museum of Buenos Aires, Pablo Ducrós Hicken.

Steeped in elliptical history and historical simulacra, Exile Exotic is set at a hotel that is a replica of the Kremlin. Narrating the exotic beginnings of my mother`s and my exile from Russia, the film serves as a platform for us to visit the Kremlin again, albeit by the side of a pool. Soundtracked by an operatic score reminiscent of the song of the sirens making Odysseus stray on his long journey home, our story reverberates throughout the scope of Russian history`s limiting of free movement of individuals. This film is a pilgrimage. This film comes in waves.

Sasha Litvintseva is an artist, filmmaker, researcher and curator based in London. Her work has been exhibited worldwide including Wroclaw Media Art Biennale, Poland, The Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Modern Art Museum Moscow, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Kunstverein Gottingen, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, Kasseler Dokfest, Cinema Du Reel, Paris, including solo shows and retrospective screenings at Union Docs, New York, Super Dakota gallery, Brussels, Courtisane Film Festival, Ghent, Close-Up Film Centre, London, Edinburgh Film Guild, Image/Movement, Berlin, among many others. A graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art she is currently working on a PhD proposing the concept of geological filmmaking at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she is a founding member of the Screen and Audiovisual Research Unit. She is also an independent curator of contemporary moving image and co-curator of the November Film Festival.

Beili Liu has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. She has held solo exhibitions at venues such as the Hå Gamle Prestegard, Norwegian National Art and Culture Center, Galerie An Der Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich, Germany, Elisabeth de Brabant Art Center, Shanghai, Hua Gallery, London, UK, Nordisk Kunst Plattform, Brusand, Norway, the Chinese Culture Foundation, San Francisco, and Buffalo Arts Studio. Liu has been included in group exhibitions at the National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, the Austin Museum of Art, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Granary Gallery, Fiskars, Finland, the Kaunas Biennale, Lithuania, From Lausanne to Beijing, the 7th International Textile Biennale, China, and Hamburg Art Week, Germany. Liu’s work has received critical reviews from Art in America, Sacchi Review, UK, Helsinki Sanomat News, Finland, Stavanger News, Norway, China Daily, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, China ArtNow, Fiber Quarterly, Canada, Handelsblatt, Germany, Hamburg Abendblatt, Artillery Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Art Slant Los Angeles, Buffalo News, Detroit Metro Times, and Austin Chronicle, among many others. Liu has received awards and prizes including artist fellowships at Art Farm, Djerassi Foundation, Fiskars AIR Onoma Foundation, Finland, and Fundación Valparaíso, Spain. Her solo exhibition In Between was named one of the “Top Ten Exhibitions in Shanghai” in 2009 by Sacchi Review, UK. Liu received the San Francisco Major’s Award for her contribution to cultural exchange in 2008, and was named twice "Artist of the Year", by Austin Visual Art Association and the Austin Critics Table Awards. In 2011, Liu received a Distinction award at the Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania. Liu received a Walter and Gina Ducloux Fellowship in 2011 and a University of Texas Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award in 2012. Born in Jilin, China, Liu now lives and works in Austin, Texas, USA. She is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Texas at Austin.

The Girls Honour Guard training is taking place on a Saturday afternoon. Girls gather together, but we hear no giggling. They say: love your rifle, respect the elder members, and fraternize with your sisters. In the late 90s, the artist spent her high school days in a school with the best Girls Honour Guard in Taiwan. The 16 year old girls were convinced that to join the Honour Guard was an experience they would appreciate throughout their lives. To join is voluntary. What the viewer sees in this film is not about blind obedience; the performance is a regimented beauty.

Tsui-lun Liu was born in 1979 in Keelung, Taiwan. She studied history at National Taiwan University and Free University Berlin, and Fine Art at the Dutch Art Institute in the Netherlands, graduating with an MFA in 2006. Her work is shown in numerous screenings and participations internationally. She lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan.

"Shanghai Shanghai" presents Shanghai as it is conceived, imagined through models and virtual videos, and on the other side, it presents the reality of the city. This film develops three types of images: utopian, metaphorical, and documentary.

Zhenchen Liu was born in 1976 in Shanghai. He received an MA in painting at the school of Fine Arts in Shanghai and a Master diploma from the "Ecole national supèrieur d?art de Nice" (Villa Arson). He works a lot on the subjects of "urban", "modernization", and "the problem with the development of China". Recently, he participated in the 1st Biennial of Chinese Contemporary Art in Montpellier, the 11th Biennial of the Moving Image" in Geneva, "Panorama7" in Tourcoing, the 7th International Manifestation of Electronic Video and Art, and the 35th New Cinema Festival of Montreal. He is currently in residency at the National Studio of Contemporary Arts of Fresnoy.

The five faces in this video were murdered on Chang An Ave. or Tiananmen Square on June, 4, 1989. They were as young as I was and from the most common families in China. Those pictures are from their gravestones. They were They imprinted the history with their young lives, and their families shouldered the tribulations and inequities with their weak shoulders in modern China. The small holes in the iron board in the video are Braille names of the people killed in the event, which were collected by the mother of one of the killed with great efforts in years. Most of the killed were young students and citizens. The black holes in the iron board were bullet holes in the young and faint faces, and everlasting wounds in the hearts of their family members and ordinary people in China. Feeling them is feeling the most heavy hurts caused by the power system to Chinese people generation after generation; regarding them is regarding their mothers in tears at every moment; ignoring them is covering the truth with pretences and idola and maintaining the false life in China. In uproarious China, the media are fabricating a flourishing age and history in a forcible way, while keeping extraordinarily silent about the event. The black holes try to break the iron-board-like propaganda, the public voice and the solemn slogans and history fabricated by the media with their autocratic right of speech. The dynamically changing Street A, so-called No.1 Street of China, is so faint in their eyes. The prosperity of the city that every bled and the busy steps of people in the city don?t change at all for the tribulations that happened. The video installation repeatedly shows the changing four seasons in the places where they were killed and buried. Time elapses quickly, and the broken memories and hurts make us more silent and helpless.

Liu Wei Born in 1965, P.R.China. Live and work in Beijing. Educational Background In 1992, graduated with bachelor`s degree in literature, as a design major, from the Department of Fine Arts, of China Central Academy of Drama. In 1995, completed his studies at the Symposium on the Relationship between Religion and Culture, hosted by the Philosophy Department of the Beijing University.

Product ( VIDEO ) LISHAN ‘ is a series of three 30-second pseudo-ads by re-situating the 3 electronic devices for personal healthcare and beauty(a Clarisonic facial brush, a Philips air flosser and a Braun epilator) and interrupting the normal working of the “œmachinesâ”. The videos, loosely following the structure and aesthetic of the original product commercials, are aesthetically pleasing and entertaining. Subsequently, It entails the seductive irony of interwoven relationship among several spheres of commercial aesthetics, techno-fetishism and narcissism in contemporary consumerism. This series of videos has once shown in a screening in SVA Theater and arranged to play in between other artists` work, which functioned as TV commercials in terms of form. It conveys the artistâ’s satirical commentary on the attention span and art production strategies.

Liu makes video-based work. Her highly personal artistic practice, with a constant approach of de/recontextualization and conceptualization, reflects the globalized cultural environment accelerated by Internet (Techno-culture, consumption culture, pop culture and so on). Liu graduated from MFA Photography, Video and Related Media at School of Visual Arts. She has exhibited her work in both China and the US including Vacuum Gallery, Beijing(2017); Poor Image Art Center, online(2016); Rabbithole, New York; Flux Factory(2016); Fei Gallery, Guangzhou(2015); Shenzhen New Media Art Festival at The Value Factory(2014); Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou(2014); Today Art Museum, Beijing(2014) and etc.