Screening 放映節目 / Camera obscura (in praise of shadows) 暗室(陰翳禮讚) Curator 策劃: Ip Yuk Yiu 葉旭耀 (Hong Kong 香港) Date, Time and Venue 日期、時間及地點: 12.11.2007; 21:00 - 22:20 (Cinema, Hong Kong Film Archive 香港電影資料館 電影院 map) Ticket 票價 : $30 (Discounts) Tickets are available at URBTIX outlets from 5 November onwards 門票將於 11月5日 於城市電腦售票處發售 Telephone Reservation 電話留座: 2734 9009 Credit Card Telephone Booking 信用卡網上電話訂票: 2111 5999 Internet Booking 網上訂票 www.urbtix.hk Camera obscura, which began to be used widely since the 16th century, offers at least two models for the understanding of the technological rendering of the world-as-image: a scientific and drawing tool for representations, and a popular lens-based medium that predated photography and cinema. On the very first viewing, the works in the program Camera obscura seem to belong to two opposite trends or traditions of audiovisual making. On the one hand, works such as Number one, Candle, Drawing Wishes, Notes on shadows and stains shared a kind of lens-based poetics which hints on the observational, the everyday and the subjective. On the other hand, Zuruckbleiben bitte, Scape_time, Int.16/45//son01/30x1, CEC 1511 L can be broadly categorized under the emerging field of digital sound-images that utilize algorithms to explore abstract geometry and nonrepresentational imageries. However, despite their seemingly polarized audiovisual styles and distinct techniques of production, I believe a parallel concern is expressed and shared among the works. In all the works, the audiovisual sentience is not a given but rather a fluid process that demands the audience’s active perceptual participation. The viewing is a co-creative and reflective process. Admittedly, all viewings require audience’s various degree of perceptual engagement (or else we will perceive nothing at all). But this series of works is particularly marked by a subtle and exquisite play on our threshold/margins of perception. If I am allowed to use a somewhat obscure (if not entirely too metaphysical) way to express and summarize this common denominator, I believe all the works suggest a pursuit of the audiovisual sublime by provoking our senses with a simple question: What am I perceiving right now? Title Artist Country Duration Urum 烏魯姆 Takafumi Tsuchiya 土屋多加史 Japan 6'20" Int.16/45//son01/30x1 Lia 麗雅 Austria 6'00" Number one 第一位 Leighton Pierce 李頓．皮爾斯 USA 10'00" Zuruckbleiben bitte 請退後 Stadtmusik (Dietmar Offenhuber) Austria 7'30" Negai wo Hiku (Drawing wishes) 繪畫願望 Aki Nakazawa 中澤亞紀 Japan 5'00" CEC 1511 L Martijn van Boven 馬田芬布云 Netherlands 7'00" Notebook on shadows and stains 陰影.污漬 Andreas Flamini 安德里亞．弗拉米尼 USA 6'56" Untitled (silver) 無題(銀) Takeshi Murata 村田武 Japan 11'00" Candle 蠟燭 Shiho Kano 狩野志步 Japan 8'00" Scape_Time 羽軸時光 Telcosystem Netherlands 8'21" Discounts 折扣優惠 Half-price tickets for senior citizens, people with disabilities, full-time students and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients (Limited number of tickets for students and CSSA recipients available on a first-come-first-served basis) 10% discount for Friends of LCSD performing venues 高齡、殘疾人士、全日制學生及綜合社會保障援助受惠人士半價優惠 (全日制學生及綜合社會保障援助受惠人士優惠票先到先得，額滿即止) 康樂及文化事務署轄下各表演場地之友可獲九折優惠 < back