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video works by Alice Hui-Sheng
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Practice
(2005).................... 7’14”
This piece was born as a side project
while developing a yearlong art project. It was to express
my frustration with creativity and life during that period. Go,
wood-block soldiers!
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- There she is, no more tubes
or pump attached (2004)....................
8'24"
This piece is dedicated to my grandma, Chang Wang A-Mei. She died
the morning after
mid-autumn moon festival last year, free from five years fighting
cancer at the age of seventy-four.
Through repetitive gestures in a traditional Buddhist/Taoist funeral,
'There she is, no more tubes
or pump attached' depicts our struggle
with the fact of disease and death against the unsure future
in afterlife.
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Flat
(2003).................... 4'30",
Sound Recorder and Cello Player: Anthea Caddy
Carried
out in a 2D reality, repetitive motions mirror the mechanical
patterns in modern society.
In this one-shot abstracted sequence, obscuring motion and direction,
repeated gestures move
beyond meaning and into compulsive
necessity. Detail magnifies while reason fades. ‘Flat’
is
where we stay awake while watching
others fast asleep.
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Silence,
Scream (2003).................... 9'39"
In
a place between knowing self-reflection and absent-minded activity,
these compulsive
performances are carried out. Engaging in these activities with
their subject materials removed,
her gestures are reduced to physical repetition. Time and space
are meaningless in this
wonderland. What is left is called silence and scream.
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