Non-Place, Other Space (2009 / 13m45s / Linda Lai): clips - 3m47s

"Non-place ▪ Other Space"《隱城･懸浮半空》is a compilation video work based on my many years of visual ethnography whereby I walked the city and collected images as a form of personal video diary. This work compiles fragments of the city space in Hong Kong and Macao (1991-2008) to assert the possibility of many spaces and temporal sheets in one single framed discourse. It attempts the states between disappearance and emerging, visible and concealed. Walking through is a precarious experience. One penetrates, dives into, emerges and immerses in In one moment, I see, therefore the video camera records for me; in another moment, the camera sees and retains, then I discover. Automatism leads. Virtual sounds I barely grasp in my mind, and fragments of a voice I have long forgotten, all blended into the placeless other space of non-place. Places and lived moments of disappearance return as the in-between, neither monumental, nor illusionary.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• video art
• city space
• urban renewal
• disappearance
• poetry
• collage
• flânerie
• walking the city
• found footage
• compilation
• video art archive
• visual ethnography
• auto-ethnography
• time and space
• Hong Kong
• Macau