CREATORS Project "Body Filmization Field" (by Wu Tzu-An WU and Xia LIN) applies their own private filmmaking and physical practice as its core, engaging in various explorations and exercises to discuss the relationship between the human body and image. This presentation will utilize materials generated during the experimental process, through a jamming session that blends expanded cinema and lecture performance.
Limited capacity for 15; registration closes when full. (The team will notify you of your registration status.)
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2024/12/21(Sat.) 19:30-20:20
19:15 Venue opens
19:30 Performance begins
20:00 Performance ends
20:00-20:20 Post-performance discussion
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C-LAB CREATORS' Space R101 Rehearsal Room
█ About the Performers █
Tzu-An WU works between experimental film and its expansions. He makes collages with analogue films, through mixing heterogeneous images, audio, and texts in an attempt to inquire about the constructs of (cinematic) narratives and the selves.
He holds an MA in Media Studies from The New School, New York, and a BA in Gender and Cultural Studies from NTHU, Taiwan. His works are presented in the forms of screenings, exhibitions, and performances, and have been shown internationally, including BFI Flare (London), IFFR (Netherland), CROSSROADS (San Francisco), Golden Horse Film Festival (Taiwan), TIDF(Taiwan). Exhibitions include Taipei Art Awards, Taiwan Biennial, Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, and Taipei Artist Village, etc. He also does programming of experimental cinema. with the filmmaker’s collective“ReaRflex” and Bak-Nih Audiovisual Lab. He has curated many screenings of experimental films and live performances of expanded cinema.
Now he is a member of the experimental filmmaker group “ReaRflex” and Bak-Nih Audiovisual Lab and has curated several screenings of experimental films and live performances of expanded cinema.
Xia LIN is an enthusiast about the philosophy of Tai Chi, martial arts, and the awareness processes of humans and machines. Xia’s works focus on how technology influences humans’ perceptions in contemporary life and inquire body philosophies as well as the processes of humans’ and machines’ awareness via mixed media, videos, workshops, and interdisciplinary performances of expanded cinema. Xia is a co-founder of the art group lololol and its long-term project Future Tao attempts to reexamine the interpretations of the Asian philosophies, mind-body techniques and conceptions, and body systems through experimental art practice.
█ Registration █
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Limited capacity; registration closes when full. (The team will notify you of your registration status.)