Videotage is a leading Hong Kong-based non-profit organization specializing in the promotion, presentation, creation and preservation of new media art across all languages, shapes and forms. Founded in 1986, Videotage has evolved from an artist-run collective to an influential network, supporting creative use of media art to explore, investigate and connect with issues that are of significant social, cultural and historical value. A recurring collaborator of Casa Asia, this year Videotage presents a selection of “performative videos” by different practitioners that are representative of their broad knowledge of time based art.

Within the framework of the LOOP Festival, Casa Asia hosts the presentation of the audiovisual project Origin, Body, City by the artists Claudio Zulian and Matteo Guidi, both with professional careers that fit perfectly with the themes that propose this project.

The proposal is based on the creation of a film, which is the outcome of the work done by the participants in the workshops led by Claudio Zulian and Matteo Guidi at the Torre Barrina de l’Hospitalet center. As a contribution to the general theme of the LOOP Festival, the beginnings of video art, the project is a personal meditation that covers some elements of the work of Nam June Paik. It is also an exploration of the city of l’Hospitalet through the performance of a group of young people of the Ithaca Association, and some images that indicate the urban environment.
Participants:
Claudio Zulian, artista and filmmaker, director of the audiovisual production Acteon, with which he supports numerous cultural projects.

Matteo Guidi, artist and anthropologist, licenced in Visual Communication and graduated in Ethno-anthropology from the University of Bologna.
Presented by:
Menene Gras Balaguer, director of Cultura and Expositions, Casa Asia.

GREATER China – Here, There and Everywhere endeavours to explore the divides, boundaries and spaces between different Chinese communities. Through the presentation of artist films from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and beyond, this project aims to investigate fragments of histories, personal experiences and global concerns, alike. By assembling a variety of regional, temporal and artistic perspectives, the screening program will re-interpret the experience of the here and now, while looking into the potentially excluded moving image artworks and making visible fragments of experience that disrupt time, space and continuity.

Download the film programme here.

In its second edition, Both Sides Now—curated by Isaac Leung, director of Videotage—attempts to explore national identity and culture and to raise questions about both China & Hong Kong, by proposing (historical) re-readings of potentially excluded and forgotten artists, moving images and reinterpretation of the experience of the here and now.