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I Still Believe in Tomorrow: Contemporary Video from Asia
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On view through January 11, 2009 at the Audrey Jones Beck Building
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Cao Fei, COSplayers, 2005
Courtesy of the Artist and Lombard-Freid Projects, NY
© Cao Fei
I Still Believe in Tomorrow: Contemporary Video from Asia features videos created by five internationally acclaimed artists from China, Japan and Vietnam. Reflecting on the region´s recent urban and cultural explosion, the artists compose and translate the experiences of ordinary people, places and things. Poignant, lyrical, and spellbinding, they confront the current conditions of urban life in Asia with the hope of changing the future. Nine single-channel videos will play on consecutive loop in the Brown Foundation galleries of the Audrey Jones Beck Building, on view through January 11, 2008.
In three video works, Cao Fei (b. 1978) chronicles the lives of ordinary people caught in the modernization and development of communities in China, from teenagers engaging in cosplay (or "costume play") to factory workers fantasizing about alternative careers. Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba (b. 1968) plunges into the depths of the waters of Vietnam to create two memorial videos for those displaced from their homeland as a result of the Vietnam War. Yang Fudong (b. 1971) questions the status and role of young intellectuals in China today through a re-enactment of an ancient story of a group of Chinese scholars and poets who withdrew from society. Videos by Sawa Hiraki (b. 1977) explore time and space travel beyond the boundaries of his tiny London apartment, addressing feelings of dislocation and hope, and Shimabuku (b. 1969) incorporates humor and adventure into everyday experiences when he takes an octopus on a tour from Akashi to Tokyo.
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