Learning Nearby: Bo Wang and Lu Pan
Bo Wang, Lu Pan
Monday, 8 July 2024
Monday, July 08th 2024 16.00 - 18.00 WIB
Monday, July 08th 2024
16.00 – 18.00 WIB
MIASMA, PLANTS, EXPORT PAINTINGS
28 mins, 2017
This work examines the peculiar dynamics between imperialism, scientific research, race, and the right to look in 19th-century Canton.
TRACES OF AN INVISIBLE CITY: THREE NOTES ON HONG KONG
70 mins,2016
Visualising the visible/invisible boundaries if socio-spatial stratifications, the film presents urban space in Hong Kong as a vivid showcase of the hidden logics of today’s world cities. The film contains three chapters-global, loval, and border spaces.
Many Undulating Things
126 mins, 2019
A rich and expansive film essay in many forms, Many Undulating Things explores contemporary Hong Kong through itd history of urban change. Formerly a British colony and now a Special Administration Region in China, Hong Komg has been passed back and forth between imperial powers of East and West for centuries. Through a forensic examination of its unique urban topography, filmmakers Bo Wang and Pan Lu shift the form of their film to draw connection across time, findin in the ghost houses, shopping malls, convetion centres amd skyscrapers of the capitalist present remnants and residues if colonial past.
Documentation
Biography
Bo Wang is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher based in Amsterdam. His works have been exhibited internationally, including at MoMA, IFFR, CPH:DOX, Open City, Courtisane, Seoul Mediacity and Sesc_VideoBrasil, among others. He is a recipient of major international awards, including New:Vision at CPH:DOX, O.F.F. Prize at Sesc_Videobrasil, Best Doc Short at Sharjah Film Platform, etc. He was an artist-in-residency at the Rijksakademie from 2017 to 2018, as well as at NTU CCA in 2016. He is a PhD candidate at ASCA, University of Amsterdam.
Dr. Pan’s research interests cover a wide range of topics in Cultural Studies, with a focus on visual culture, city, media and memory. She is actively engaged in creating new approaches in Humanities that bridge academic research and artistic/curatorial practices. In addition to her academic research and teaching, she is an active curator and video artist. Her essay films, co-directed with Bo Wang, include Traces of an Invisible City (2016), Miasma, Plants and Export Paintings (2017), which received Award for Excellence, 32nd Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Japan, and Many Undulating Things (2019). She was one of the curators of Kuandu Biennale, Taipei, 2018.