Lai Chiu-han Linda

Lai Chiu-han Linda

Linda Lai, 2007
Born Hong Kong, SAR
Nationality Chinese
Education Chinese University of Hong Kong (BA), Wheaton College (MA), New York University (Ph.D.)
Known for Video Art, Media Art, Contemporary Art, Cultural Studies, Cinema Studies, Microhistory

Lai Chiu-han Linda (黎肖嫻) (or Linda Chiu-han Lai, family name 'Lai') is a Hong Kong-based academic, artist, curator and art historian working at the intersections of experimental video art, interactive media and cultural history. Lai is Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong.[1] She is the founder and artistic director of the Writing Machine Collective.

Lai received her B.A. in English Language & Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and pursued her M.A. (Wheaton College, Illinois - communication & journalism) and Ph.D. (New York University - Cinema Studies) in the USA.[2]

Lai's artworks are primarily experiments with various forms of video and installation, based on her research in experimental historiography. Her works have been exhibited widely in Hong Kong and worldwide in cities including Shanghai, Torun, Paris, Barcelona, Kuala Lumpur, London, Taipei, Soeul, New York City and Montreal, and several times in International Competition at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2005, 2009, 2011).

Selected publications

Selected artworks

Installations

Video art / experimental moving image / experimental documentary

Lai's works are collected at the Asia Art Archive:[8][9]

Published works at film/video festivals:

Door Games Window Frames: Near Drama (景框戲門) (single-channel video version); 2012, 11m 30s / screened at 2 festivals, in South Korea[10] and the Netherlands[11]

Voices Seen, Images Heard (看得見的聲音,聽得見的形象); 2009, 28m / screened at 13 festivals[12][13][14][15][16][17] and art events around the world. This work is also anthologized and viewable with commentary in ASPECT, Chronicle of New Media Art.

Non-place, Other Space (隱城・懸浮半空); 2009, 3m 35s / screened at 7 festivals[18][19][20] and 9 art spaces[21] around the world

Shanghai Saga: Other Skies, Other Lands (上海歌:另尋天地); 2009, 32m / in International Competition at 55th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2009[22]

Trespassing World Cities (搖擺過路人); 2005, 28m / Juror's selection for Women Make Waves Film Festival 2006[23]

Door Game (戲門); 2005, 26m / screened 4 festivals in Asia[23]

I Told Them My Camera Was On (六度分離∶準備好未?); 2004/5, 24m / screened 3 festivals in Europe, including the 51st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2005 and the Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin Madrid 2005

Citations

Citations at Asia Art Archive

Art Basel Hong Kong 2013: "Home Grown Talents" (Kick-off conversation)

"The Document," event at Art Basel Hong Kong curated by the Asia Art Archive: a dialogue between Abbas Kierostami, Linda Lai, Shooshie Sulaiman and Hammad Nasar

Presentation by curator Qiu Zhijie on the 9th Shanghai Biennale 2012, "Asia Art Archive in America"

《台灣與香港新媒體藝術的契機 I:知識主體、感知與實踐》[opportunities of new media art in Taiwan and Hong Kong: the subject of knowledge, perception, cognition and practice] / 採訪:貢幼穎/整理:貢幼穎,藝外+數位荒原, interview with Linda Lai, posted in Chinese on NO MAN'S LAND (荒原), 29 February 2012.

ASPECT (the Chronicle of New Media Art) volume 18 (fall, 2011), "Export China"; commentary by Kimburley Choi.

References

  1. "School of Creative Media". School of Creative Media.
  2. "Lai, Chiu-han Linda". nyu.edu.
  3. "Push: The quest for a voice, in search of a body". kent.ac.uk.
  4. video documentation of the work part I, "Staging the Load": Vimeo link to artwork
  5. video documentation of the work part II, "57m kilograms: why did I make '1906-1989-2012'?: https://vimeo.com/66545704
  6. Official site of the 9th Shanghai Biennale: http://www.shanghaibiennale.org/en/exhibitor/linda-chiu-han-lai/
  7. from digital catalogue: http://www.generativeart.com/ga2013xWEB/proceedings1/a-linda.pdf
  8. "Linda C. H. Lai: Video Works Collection 3.2002 to 4.2009 - Asia Art Archive". aaa.org.hk.
  9. "Linda C. H. Lai: Video Works Collection II 9.2008 - 11.2012 - Asia Art Archive". aaa.org.hk.
  10. EXiS (Experimental Film Video Festival in Seoul http://ex-is.org/2012/index.php/exnow/ex-now-4/
  11. "Panorama" #4, IMPAKT: Critical and Creative Views on Contemporary Media Culture http://impakt.nl/archive/2012/programme/panorama-programme/screenings
  12. EXiS 2010 http://www.ex-is.org/exis/Voices%20See.htm
  13. "Transmediascape," 12th International Women's Film Festival in Seoul http://www.wffis.or.kr/wffis_12th/03eng_program/01_pro_view.php?code=141&section=
  14. Xin Dan Wei新单位, Shanghai 2010: http://xindanwei.com/lang/en/2010/07/meditations-on-a-minor-history-and-generative-image-creation-method-using-optical-flow/
  15. "Off Side," La Rada (2 events during the Locarno Film Festival) http://www.aksioma.org/pdf/larada_august2013_program.pdf
  16. InToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2013: MicroCities http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=23807697793aca4f73a0aec1c&id=7792261705&e=8947206227
  17. KLEX 2011 (Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film & Video Festival http://www.klexfilmfest.com/archive/klex2011/guestprogram
  18. 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival - International Short Film http://34.hkiff.org/eng/film/detail/11/34181-short-film-competition-programme-i.html
  19. "Fascinations," 14th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival 2010, Czech Republic http://www.dokument-festival.cz/archive/detail/sections/2010/3433%7Cfascinace#editorials#2011
  20. "City Scope," Open City London Documentary Festival 2011, catalogue, p. 13 http://opencitylondon.com/sites/default/files/opencity_programme.pdf
  21. "This is Hong Kong," a traveling showcase curated by Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya for Para Site, Hong Kong: http://www.para-site.org.hk/en/publications/publications/hong-kong-15-video-artists
  22. Videotheque documentation at Oberhausen: http://www.kurzfilmtage.de/en/videotheque/videotheque-videothek.html?tx_kftmoviedb_pi1%5Bfilms%5D=56467&tx_kftmoviedb_pi1%5Baction%5D=show&tx_kftmoviedb_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=Films&cHash=338a822e522f915b9b9fd5a6df5df76c
  23. 1 2 Program: "The Vitality of Hybrid Cinema: http://www.wmw.com.tw/oldweb/older/2006/2006html/2006wmw_list.html
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