
“Motives for. Remembering,” the 2nd book launch conversation for Our Manifestos 2: Videography, Documentary Impulses took place on-line 28 May. The conversations continue as Natalie Chao wrote to Linda Lai after her postscript with Zach McLane, this time, delving into how our body remembers and why manifesto-writing will not be obsolete. … 「錄像宣言2」新書發佈會2 — 網絡研討會『為何要記住』5月28日在據點舉行。繼 Zach McLane 傳來研討後記,另一位年青影像創作人趙芷妮又透過電郵與黎肖嫻進行跟進討論,想起身體如何記住,為何還要寫宣言。

The 2nd of the three book launch events for “Our Manifestos 2: Videography, Documentary Impulse” took place on-line last night with our artists participating from the Los Angeles, London, HK and Shanghai in the form of a webinar. Zach McLane and Linda Lai had a follow-up email conversation in which Zach points out issues for further address — now published as a postscript to the webinar… 「錄像宣言2」新書發佈會2 (網絡研討會)昨晚在據點舉行,受邀參與這計劃的藝術家來自美英中港。會後 LA 的年青創作人 Zach McLane 與黎肖嫻進行了小小的電郵跟進討論,點出了未來有待深化的議題。

Book Launch. Celebration. Meet the Artists. Third book launch event (in Cantonese), 6 June 2021, introduces 4 of the 49 teams/artists in OUR MANIFESTOS 2, to give us a foretaste of the works and personal manifestos in the 365-page book, released on 2 June 2021. ALL are welcome. The new book will be available for sale.

Second book launch event (in English), 28 May 2021, introduces 6 of the 49 artists in OUR MANIFESTOS 2, to give us a foretaste of the works and personal manifestos in the 365-page book to be released on 26 May 2021. They speak from the US, Europe and Hong Kong.

First book launch event, 23 May 2021, introduces 4 of the 49 artists in OUR MANIFESTOS 2, to give us a foretaste of the works and personal manifestos in the 365-page book to be released on 26 May 2021.

The world is waiting to be animated.

Visual abstraction opens up more worlds: Reality appears to shimmer through the layers of its decomposition…

Why did Hangjun Lee choose 3 projected animated work to mark the finale of Elemental Dynamite’s summer session? He showed us animation as performance, installation, sculpturing and graphic patterning thru’ direction encounter with the film apparatus … 動畫的電影本質與互媒體潛力始於電影器具。李幸俊投影的三個作品,結合了表演、投影、裝置、雕塑和圖形組合。如此,他為「原格破裂」的夏季熱浪畫上句號。

Lee Hangjun offers a defence for experiments in the animated picture: collapse the story-documentary-experimental triad, as the 11 work (1935-2015) from Europe and Japan manifest. 首爾實驗電影及動畫節總監李幸俊 以11部歐美日作品(1935-2015)去說明擺脫「故事-紀錄-實驗」三分法的囹圄去打開動畫的可能性早有先例。

EXiS Program Director Hangjun Lee surveyed the contemporary scene of experimental cinema in Korea in relation to animation and its expanded forms. 「首爾實驗電影錄像節」節目總監李幸俊素描當代韓國實驗活動影像的風景,尤其與動畫和動畫的延伸的千絲萬縷。