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Distance Between
距离之间

Distance Between

3-channel HD video installation (2012), 25:00
Since Han Dynasty (206 BC–220 AD), once a year, on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month in the Chinese calendar, Chinese Valentine’s Day has been celebrated. In Chinese mythology, Zhinu, a weaver girl, and Niulang, a cowherd, fell deeply in love – but their relationship was forbidden and they were banished to opposite sides of the Silver River, or the Milky Way. Feeling sad for these quite literally star-crossed lovers a flock of magpies would form a bridge to reunite the lovers for one day every year. This year the day falls on Tuesday 9 August.
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Before this year’s Chinese Valentine’s Day, China Exchange brings us the video work DISTANCE BETWEEN by Chinese artist Xiaowen Zhu.
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Distance Between
 
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DISTANCE BETWEEN is a 3-channel video installation ostensibly on the topic of long-distance relationships, as referred to romantic relationships between people who are separated by considerable distance. The interviews, filmed with 6 subjects, recount individual stories as confessions, beginning with the innocent excitement of growing intimacy through simple means of text messages and phone calls, to the complexity of Skype, examining the inherent properties of the medium.The project begins by interviewing couples involved in long distance romantic relationships, focusing on particular traits and benefits of a mediated and technologically enabled exchange. Taking this source material, the artist mixes spontaneous interviews with reenactments by 6 subjects based on quotes taken from actual interviews. The material was then re-configured and re-contextualized by the artist. Using staged scenarios, designed stenography and cinematography, the piece encourages the viewer to re-examine their notions of the Documentary Interview and to ponder the boundary between fact and fiction. “Long-distance relationships” is used as a subject to open a discourse about self-identification, individual perception of home and travel, personal value of family and marriage, ideology of life and understandings of the issues of love and trust.
 

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七夕之前 《距离之间》

当你在异乡伦敦独自打拼,是否有人在地球的另一端等待?你是坚守这遥远的思念?还是会因为寂寞而拥抱眼前的温暖?

话说史上最长情、最忠贞的异地恋,莫过于牛郎与织女了。这对情侣被分隔于天上和人间,只能在每年的农历七月初七,踏鹊桥渡天河相会。

天阶夜色凉如水   卧看牵牛织女星

七夕节即将来临,在这个浪漫的节日,China Exchange中国站特邀艺术家朱晓闻,与您共享其经典作品,并共度一个动情而理性的七夕前夜。。

《距离之间》是一部三屏视频作品,之前曾在纽约小飞象中心 (Dumbo Arts Center)和圣佩德罗拱门画廊(The Arcade Gallery)以视频装置的形式进行展出。艺术家创造性地将采访素材编排至全新语境与设计脚本中,引发人们重新审视纪录片的虚实边界。

作品表面上是在谈“异地恋”,实则讨论了自我身份认同、个体对于家和旅行的看法、个体的婚姻与家庭观念、对生活的看法以及对于爱与信任的理解。

作品同时还探讨了通讯技术,对维系远距离情感的引力。从手写书信到网络视频,我们到底隔得更远还是更近?

《距离之间》将在China Exchange中国站免费展映。

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开幕点映+艺术家座谈 Opening Night

4 August 2016 18:30-20:00

Pre-show drinks+Screening+Panel Discussion with Xiaowen Zhu, Elisabeth Roth and Maximilian Bauer

票价信息:开幕点映+艺术家座谈 票价£10 学生价£8(展映期间免费入场)
售票链接:chinaexchange.uk/whats-on/celebrating-chinese-valentines-day-distance/

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其余免费观影时间:

Fri 5 August  15:00-19:00
Sat 6 August 15:00-19:00
Sun 7 August CLOSED
Mon 8 August 15:00-19:00
Tue 9 August 15:00-19:00

China Exchange UK  32A Gerrard Street, London, W1D 6JA .


Xiaowen_Profile2016_web

About the artist:
Xiaowen Zhu is a London-based documentary filmmaker and media artist. Described as a visual poet, social critic, and aesthetic researcher, she uses video, photography, performance, installation and mixed media as platforms to communicate the complex experience of being an international person and to wrestle with the notion of a disembodied identity.

Zhu has received numerous awards, including Jury Award of DOK Munich, Jury Award of Mexico International Film Festival, the TASML Artist Residency Award and Marylyn Ginsburg Klaus Post-MFA Fellowship. She was an artist-in-residence at ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany and V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She is a mentor of the British Film Institute Film Academy, a member of the Los Angeles Art Association, and formerly a Visiting Professor of Media Art at Syracuse University and Marymount College in USA. Zhu received her MFA in Art Video from Syracuse University, USA and BA in Film, TV Production & Media Art from Tongji University, China.

Zhu’s work has been shown widely shown internationally, including Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK), Whitstable Biennale (Whitstable, UK), Sheffield Fringe (Sheffield, UK), Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum (Beijing China), Chronus Art Center (Shanghai, China), Art Basel Hongkong, ZKM | Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany), V2_Institute for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), ISEA2011 (Istanbul, Turkey), Dumbo Arts Center (New York, USA), Videonale (Berlin, Germany), Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, USA), Los Angeles Art Association (Los Angeles, USA), Venice Arts Gallery (Los Angeles, USA), Strozzina Art Space (Florence,Italy), Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts (Norwich, UK), Toronto Urban Film Festival (Toronto, Canada), DOK Munich (Munich, Germany), Film Winter (Stuttgart, Germany), Athens Video Art Festival (Athens, Greece), and more.

朱晓闻
媒体艺术家、纪录片影人和作者。她擅长用诗意化的视觉语言传达质疑性的社会思考和对媒体美学的探究。

艺术家主页:
www.zhuxiaowen.com

 

                   

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