The inaugural
A+ Online Festival of Video Art
—
1 August to 12 September 2020
Curators
Au Sow Yee
Marc Gloede
Ray Langenbach
Trương Quế Chi
Artists
Chumpon Apisuk
Đỗ Văn Hoàng
Ho Rui An
Kim
Kray Chen
Lucy Davis
Orawan Arunrak
Noor Abed
Pekka Niskanen
Phạm Ngọc Lân
Thảo Nguyên Phan
Posak Jodian
Quỳnh Đông
Saša Rajšić
Tan Zi Hao
Trương Công Tùng
Wu Chi-Yu
The A+ Online Festival of Video Art follows Back to Art, an exhibition which marked the reopening of the A+ Works of Art Gallery in June, after an easing of the Movement Control Order in Malaysia.
Along with Back to Art, the Online Festival also aims to remind us that artworkers across the board—artists, curators, administrators, designers, writers and so on—have still been working through the pandemic, and they need support.
As the artworld shifts to more presentations online, we thought that one way to explore these possibilities would be through a focus on Video Art. An online festival of Video Art may arguably offer a more engaged experience in comparison to the now ubiquitous online viewing rooms of painting, sculpture and other works usually meant to be appreciated in person and in a gallery setting. Moreover, Video Art is a practice that could use much more backing from collectors, especially in Southeast Asia.
Rather than curate the Festival with an overall theme, we decided to invite four curators, each of whom we entrusted to present their own compelling and personal selections of artworks, which they have articulated in their separate curatorial statements. We also decided to include artists among our invited curators, and are showcasing their artworks as well.
—Lee Weng Choy, Festival Convenor
The A+ Online Festival of Video Art platform is designed by Kenta.Works
CURATORS
Au Sow Yee, born in Malaysia, now lives and works in Taipei. Her works, through video installation and other mediums, focus on questioning, exploring, as well as expanding the relations between images, image-making, historiography, politics and power. She was a finalist for the 2018 Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize and the 2018 Han Nefkens Foundation—Loop Barcelona Video Art Award. Sow Yee’s works have been exhibited at the MMCA (Seoul), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), HKW (Berlin), Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum, and Singapore Film Festival. She is a guest writer for the online magazine No Man’s Land and is a co-founder of Kuala Lumpur’s Rumah Attap Library and Collective.
Ray Langenbach is Professor of Creative Arts, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman. Formerly Professor of Live Art and Performance Studies, University of the Arts Helsinki, he creates conceptual performances, convenes gatherings, writes on cultural theory, performance and queer culture. He has presented his work throughout the Asia-Pacific, Europe and the United States, and has curated exhibitions and performance events in Malaysia, Singapore, Palestine, USA, and Germany. Ray’s writings on SE Asian performance, propaganda and visual culture, have appeared in various journals and books. His video archive of SE Asian performance resides at Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, and various museums.
Trương Quế Chi works in Hanoi in both visual art and cinema, as an artist, a curator and a lecturer. Her works begin along the borders between cinema, visual art, literature, architecture, performance and sound—a search for a landscape, a mise-en-scène, in relation to space-time. Since 2015 Quế Chi has been part of the curatorial board of Nhà Sàn Collective, a Vietnamese artist-run initiative, and has been lecturing at the Hanoi University of Theatre and Cinema.
Marc Gloede is a curator, critic and film scholar. His work focuses on the relations between images, technology, space and the body, as well as the dynamics between art, architecture and film. He has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden, the Free University of Berlin, the Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, and the ETH, Zürich. He is currently Assistant Professor at NTU/ADM, Singapore, and Co-Director of the MA in Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices. His curatorial projects include: the Experimenta Festival Mumbai/Bangalore (2007); STILL/MOVING/STILL—The History of Slide Projection in the Arts (2009); and art berlin contemporary (2010–2012). From 2008–2014, he was a senior curator of the Art Film programme with Art Basel. His writing has been published in Fantom, Osmos, Texte zur Kunst, Parkett, Art in America and X-TRA Magazine, and his book, Farbige Lichträume/Coloured Space of Light, was published in 2014.
HOW TO VIEW THE FESTIVAL
Thank you for your participation. The A+ Online Festival of Video Art is over.
If you are interested to know more please contact us.
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
1 to 15 August
The A+ selection: Ho Rui An, Orawan Arunrak, Kim, Tan Zi Hao, Trương Quế Chi, Ray Langenbach and Au Sow Yee.
8 to 22 August
Au Sow Yee selection: Posak Jodian and Wu Chi-Yu.
15 to 29 August
Ray Langenbach selection: Chumpon Apisuk, Lucy Davis, Noor Abed, Pekka Niskanen and Saša Rajšić.
22 August to 5 September
Trương Quế Chi selection: Đỗ Văn Hoàng, Trương Công Tùng, Quỳnh Đông, Phạm Ngọc Lân and Thảo Nguyên Phan.
29 August to 12 September
Marc Gloede selection: four works by Kray Chen.
FINISHED SHOWING
1 to 15 August 2020
A+ SELECTION
Featuring works by HO Rui An, Orawan ARUNRAK, KIM, TAN Zi Hao, TRƯƠNG Quế Chi, Ray LANGENBACH and AU Sow Yee.
FINISHED SHOWING
15 to 29 August 2020
RAY LANGENBACH
Featuring works by Chumpon APISUK, Lucy DAVIS, Noor ABED, Pekka NISKANEN and Saša RAJŠIĆ.
FINISHED SHOWING
22 August to 5 September 2020
TRƯƠNG QUẾ CHI
Featuring works by ĐỖ Văn Hoàng, TRƯƠNG Công Tùng, Quỳnh ĐÔNG, PHẠM Ngọc Lân and Thảo Nguyên PHAN.
The inaugural
A+ Online Festival of Video Art
—
1 August to 12 September 2020
Curators
Au Sow Yee
Marc Gloede
Ray Langenbach
Trương Quế Chi
Artists
Chumpon Apisuk
Đỗ Văn Hoàng
Ho Rui An
Kim
Kray Chen
Lucy Davis
Orawan Arunrak
Noor Abed
Pekka Niskanen
Phạm Ngọc Lân
Thảo Nguyên Phan
Posak Jodian
Quỳnh Đông
Saša Rajšić
Tan Zi Hao
Trương Công Tùng
Wu Chi-Yu
The A+ Online Festival of Video Art follows Back to Art, an exhibition which marked the reopening of the A+ Works of Art Gallery in June, after an easing of the Movement Control Order in Malaysia.
Along with Back to Art, the Online Festival also aims to remind us that artworkers across the board—artists, curators, administrators, designers, writers and so on—have still been working through the pandemic, and they need support.
As the artworld shifts to more presentations online, we thought that one way to explore these possibilities would be through a focus on Video Art. An online festival of Video Art may arguably offer a more engaged experience in comparison to the now ubiquitous online viewing rooms of painting, sculpture and other works usually meant to be appreciated in person and in a gallery setting. Moreover, Video Art is a practice that could use much more backing from collectors, especially in Southeast Asia.
Rather than curate the Festival with an overall theme, we decided to invite four curators, each of whom we entrusted to present their own compelling and personal selections of artworks, which they have articulated in their separate curatorial statements. We also decided to include artists among our invited curators, and are showcasing their artworks as well.
—Lee Weng Choy, Festival Convenor
The A+ Online Festival of Video Art platform is designed by Kenta.Works
CURATORS
Au Sow Yee, born in Malaysia, now lives and works in Taipei. Her works, through video installation and other mediums, focus on questioning, exploring, as well as expanding the relations between images, image-making, historiography, politics and power. She was a finalist for the 2018 Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize and the 2018 Han Nefkens Foundation—Loop Barcelona Video Art Award. Sow Yee’s works have been exhibited at the MMCA (Seoul), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), HKW (Berlin), Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum, and Singapore Film Festival. She is a guest writer for the online magazine No Man’s Land and is a co-founder of Kuala Lumpur’s Rumah Attap Library and Collective.
Ray Langenbach is Professor of Creative Arts, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman. Formerly Professor of Live Art and Performance Studies, University of the Arts Helsinki, he creates conceptual performances, convenes gatherings, writes on cultural theory, performance and queer culture. He has presented his work throughout the Asia-Pacific, Europe and the United States, and has curated exhibitions and performance events in Malaysia, Singapore, Palestine, USA, and Germany. Ray’s writings on SE Asian performance, propaganda and visual culture, have appeared in various journals and books. His video archive of SE Asian performance resides at Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, and various museums.
Trương Quế Chi works in Hanoi in both visual art and cinema, as an artist, a curator and a lecturer. Her works begin along the borders between cinema, visual art, literature, architecture, performance and sound—a search for a landscape, a mise-en-scène, in relation to space-time. Since 2015 Quế Chi has been part of the curatorial board of Nhà Sàn Collective, a Vietnamese artist-run initiative, and has been lecturing at the Hanoi University of Theatre and Cinema.
Marc Gloede is a curator, critic and film scholar. His work focuses on the relations between images, technology, space and the body, as well as the dynamics between art, architecture and film. He has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden, the Free University of Berlin, the Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, and the ETH, Zürich. He is currently Assistant Professor at NTU/ADM, Singapore, and Co-Director of the MA in Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices. His curatorial projects include: the Experimenta Festival Mumbai/Bangalore (2007); STILL/MOVING/STILL—The History of Slide Projection in the Arts (2009); and art berlin contemporary (2010–2012). From 2008–2014, he was a senior curator of the Art Film programme with Art Basel. His writing has been published in Fantom, Osmos, Texte zur Kunst, Parkett, Art in America and X-TRA Magazine, and his book, Farbige Lichträume/Coloured Space of Light, was published in 2014.
HOW TO VIEW THE FESTIVAL
Thank you for your participation. The A+ Online Festival of Video Art is over.
If you are interested to know more please contact us.
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
1 to 15 August
The A+ selection: Ho Rui An, Orawan Arunrak, Kim, Tan Zi Hao, Trương Quế Chi, Ray Langenbach and Au Sow Yee.
8 to 22 August
Au Sow Yee selection: Posak Jodian and Wu Chi-Yu.
15 to 29 August
Ray Langenbach selection: Chumpon Apisuk, Lucy Davis, Noor Abed, Pekka Niskanen and Saša Rajšić.
22 August to 5 September
Trương Quế Chi selection: Đỗ Văn Hoàng, Trương Công Tùng, Quỳnh Đông, Phạm Ngọc Lân and Thảo Nguyên Phan.
29 August to 12 September
Marc Gloede selection: four works by Kray Chen.
FINISHED SHOWING
1 to 15 August 2020
A+ SELECTION
Featuring works by HO Rui An, Orawan ARUNRAK, KIM, TAN Zi Hao, TRƯƠNG Quế Chi, Ray LANGENBACH and AU Sow Yee.
FINISHED SHOWING
15 to 29 August 2020
RAY LANGENBACH
Featuring works by Chumpon APISUK, Lucy DAVIS, Noor ABED, Pekka NISKANEN and Saša RAJŠIĆ.
FINISHED SHOWING
22 August to 5 September 2020
TRƯƠNG QUẾ CHI
Featuring works by ĐỖ Văn Hoàng, TRƯƠNG Công Tùng, Quỳnh ĐÔNG, PHẠM Ngọc Lân and Thảo Nguyên PHAN.
