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Post-videos
to
London
"It's all about sharing!"
220717 Busking in Soho
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- Concept -
‘Post-videos to London’ is a mobile projection programme using short video art as the postcards, sharing their perspectives on Soho London streets. This project would like to show how videos can lead people to communicate with each other, using them to create the dialogues for discussion, and how to receive more information on the artwork as well as the artists by networking on social media.
Thanks to the technological development and the popularity of smartphones, we can use videos to record the content to share and communicate with people from all over the world. These videos become one of the ways to instantly deliver our messages to others vaguely instead of the text. In order to celebrate the convenience of using videos, this program took Online Exhibition and Busking (street performance) as its exhibition platforms, showing how it gathers the video artwork and shares them in the real world by projecting on the street. Also, it demonstrates how it shares the process in virtual world by live-streaming to engage with the audience who are not at the venue.
Why we do it?
These days, many museums and galleries try to promote their exhibitions to approach different kinds of the audiences, enabling them to visit and see them through their accounts on the social media; updating their news feed by posting articles, images, and videos to seduce people to explore more relevant information. In addition to this, there are several temporary exhibitions and events being held, one aim of them being to improve the visiting experience which appeal to more audiences, . (Kotler and Kotler, 2000) In light of this, the programme attempts to use the networking of the social media as its exhibition medium, breaking the limitation of the venues and sharing the content widely.
Due to the broad network, the fast search engines, and the various hashtags, people can get the information they want and explore more unpredicted ideas beyond the geographical restrictions. However, many contents cannot be seen due to information explosion and limited time. Without following and browsing some specific account on social media or website, people easily miss the content at the moment. Therefore, to reflect these conditions, this program takes the features of the videos, which can be presented on the panel and be projected on the surfaces of the environment. It chooses a busking performance- unpredictable, instant, and random- as the format to combine video art and performance art in Soho, where it is similar to the Internet having many crowds from different cultural backgrounds.
The artists we met on the Internet!
Carlos Cuellar Brown
New York, the USA
Chun-Yu Chen
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Jean-Michel Rolland
Paris, France
Laurel Beckman
California, the USA
Matthew Eric Mendez
California, the USA
Po-Cheng Liao
Taipei, Taiwan
Rosary Solimanto
New York City, the USA
Sandrine Deumier
Toulouse, France
Szu-Yu Liu (Milly Liu)
Taipei, Taiwan
Theodora Prassa
Volos, Greece
Wen-Hsin Teng
Taipei, Taiwan
Alfie Dwyer
Brighton, the UK
-Content-
According to the concept and the videos we have received from the artists, they have been categorised in three sections: ‘Human Behavior: Mobile Interaction’, ‘Living spaces: the transition between the real and virtual community’, and ‘Messages: the ideas we share!’. Furthermore, in our busking program, we have a special collaboration with artist Alfie Dwyer, whose works usually combine performance art and video art to explore the relationship between people and Information Technology.
In order to show how we use the hashtags for internet posts, this program asked the artists to hashtag their own work, providing the audience with the tool to discover more information through these shreds of evidence.
‘Post-videos to London’ attempts to describe how we use ‘share’ as a term to communicate with each other on the social media nowadays; exploring the reasons behind the movement through three sections. Above all, the tools we use to share our content instantly and broadly using mobile devices, allowing us to post our messages at everywhere, any time. Next, the social media is a medium for us to receive messages from others, where people can exchange their opinions. Lastly, this project is to point out what we share in the videos and to stress the reason why videos have become a popular communicative tool.
Curator: Hubery Ko
/// Online Exhibition ///
Layout Design, Graphic Design: Hubery Ko
/// Busking in Soho ///
Busking Performer: Alfie Dwyer
Live stream Cameraman and Anchor: Kiki Huang
Documentary Videographer: Chao Lu
Volunteer: Annie Huang, Clara Tsai,
Haillie Cheng, Victoria Chang.
Special Thanks:
The program is inspired by the artist Chun-Yu Chen.
This project cannot complete without the help by
Yun-Ling Chen, Shu-Yuan Fang, Liz Huang,
Jana Scholze, andDonna Loveday.
The last but not the least, thanks to all the artists who have the willingness to join this show!
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