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A curatorial-game-as-artmaking project that plays with the space of Experimenta using Linda’s video works as main ingredients has been on since the first day of CNY.

In case you haven’t caught our Facebook announcement, I’ve attached a brief for your information.

The event, in 3 parts, initiated by Ann Liu, will continue through Februrary until March 10.
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While “OUR LABOUR, THEIR HOMES,” Part 1 of Experimenta’s new art project “Coming in in all directions,” is still on, Part 2, LINDA IN THE AFTERNOON will begin in the first week of February.
We invite to meet curator Ann Liu in a location in HK, tea will be served and Ann will lead you to Experimenta to view two video works by Linda Lai. Please call Gina Wong at 91929275 to make an appointment between now and 21 February, 2009. We welcome a maximum of 4 persons per appointment.
http://experimenta-space.net
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Part 2

LINDA IN THE AFTERNOON

LINDA IN THE AFTERNOON features two short video works by Linda Lai, Chair Talks and I Told Them My Camera Was On. The programme starts with some refreshment on Lyndhurst Terrace. The audience then walks with a host from Experimenta to seats situated in the upper corner of Experimenta where they will watch the two films back to back in one sitting. Screening time for the two films will be 30 minutes in total, therefore please reserve at least an hour for each appointment. This programme seeks to provide a context that will at once both elucidate and complicate an audience’s reception of these two video works. Think of a perfumed concert stadium, think Barbara Cartland’s Book of Useless Information, think of Proust’s madeleine, think of Felix Gonzalez Torres’s Untitled (Para un Hombre en Uniforme) and walks that lasts an hour and leaves you with pools of sweat at the back of your knees. Or don’t. The point is the subjective and cumulative experience of multiple locations which the visitor brings to the viewing of the prepared video works; it doesn’t matter if you intend to get rid of the memory of those experiences or if you plan to mix it with the experience of watching the two video works.

brief/synopsis for individual episodes written by Linda Lai

Chair Talks (5 mins.) does not explain my love for chairs, but is the very articulation of such unfathomable indulgence, a focused attempt to apply minimal structure to carry forth the unspeakable power of things and objects beyond the service of signification for the world of humans.

I told them my camera was on (25 mins.) seeks for a structure that holds 13 women found in my footage. It subverts mainstream casual narrative logic and shows 13 women’s stories as a network of acquaintances (with me in the centre) based on the rule of playful chain-connectivity. I show each woman in an isolated moment of her life, thus questioning the necessity of an epic approach and structuralist depth-hermeneutics. Instead, a composite story made up of women from diverse backgrounds is invented.

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those interested, please call 9192 9275 for appointments. 1-2 person(s) per appointment only.