Move on Asia is one of Korea’s leading videoart initiatives. It started 2004 in Seoul, arranged by Asian Curator Networks. Each year, the Asian Curator Networks nominate experimental artists that are selected for a single channel video exhibition. The selection includes artists from Korea, Japan, China, Australia and Southeast Asia.
The 2010 edition assembles 26 artists’ works selected by 16 curators from all over Asia. Para/Site Art Space participates in the event with works by two Hong Kong artists – Howard Cheng Chi Lai and Morgan Wong Wing-fat.
Every year, Move on Asia gathers videoart from Asian countries under a new theme. This year’s theme is Sealed Time in Video Art. The advent of new technologies and media in the 20th century catalyzed the rise of new genres in contemporary art such as video art, digital art and interactive art. Art has progressed to embrace not only lines, planes and space, but also time.
Since 1980s, video technologies have made great strides, which enabled video artists to control, cause a crack in, split and put a stop to time in their works as well as freely manipulating linear time. This time-related input plays an active role in providing unique experience to observers rather than simply delivering the context of a piece. Another words, time manipulated and warped by a video artist is recognized by a spectator as more than physical time and absorbed into each individual’s inner concept of time. These two concepts cannot but clash, and the spectator ultimately ends up following the flow of his/her own emotions rather than the flow of time demonstrated by the art piece. It is more dramatically apparent in the genre of interactive art. The horizontal co-existence of internal linear time created by sequencing codes that put an artwork into operation and create images and external linear time resulted from the involvement of a spectator provides an undisturbed realm of time to help the artwork achieve its original purpose.
This exhibition contemplates on the significance of sealed time (or running time) in video art and delineates the wide-ranging ways of materializing time through manipulating and metamorphosing the concept to see how spectators respond to this intrinsic attribute of video art and how such experience in turn influences the relationship between art and spectators.
Artists: Peter ALWAST, Yu ARAKI, Howard CHENG Chi Lai, Daniel CROOKS, Vishal Kumar DAR, Michelle DIZON, Benjamin DUCROZ, Silas FONG, Henry Foundation, HO Tzu Nyen, KIM Yongho, LE Quy Anh Hao, MA Qiusha, Angelica MESITI, MIAO Xiao Chun, Yusuke NAKAJIMA, Yuki OHRO, PARK Seungwon, Jet PASCUA, Anggun PRIAMBODO, Sudsiri PUI-OCK, Sathit SATTARASART, Lieko SHIGA, SUH Bokyoung, Morgan WONG Wing-fat, ZHAO Yao
