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3/3/2005

Take a ST/Roll

Para Site Art Space, Hong Kong

Donut fantasies

Reine Wong Shun-kit & Kongkee

Curator & Research Supervisor: Linda Lai

ONE GAME TWO TARGETS

Take a ST/Roll is a playful, two-level experimentation based on a year-long research process of video-shooting HK’s city space and everyday objects with a spheric lens capable of a 360˚ capture. The event, an exhibition with two weekend workshops, will be open to the public on March 4 to April 10, 2005 at Para/Site Art Space in Sheung Wan.

(1) Playing with tools /subverting consumer usage:
We challenge the lens package’s pre-defined usage – an obsession with panoramic VR -- to invent alternative usages. Following a widely known Modernist impulse to experiment with the apparatus, we find out how the special 360˚ lens opens up and re-defines our experience of space. We also use low-cost everyday objects and available mechanical parts to create our own optical tools to invent new visual and spatial experiences.

(2) How to tell a story? What makes something a story?
On another level, we playfully explore new narrative possibilities with the flat donut-shape (i.e. the new frame shape) moving image resulting from the use of the special lens.

A SPATIAL PLAY OF HK’S URBAN SPACE: donut fantasies

Spiral staircases become forever widening rivers... Elevator boxes become fat pumpkins spitting out currents of steel meat and flashing seeds... Our donut pictures show visitors the unfamiliar of HK’s familiar urban landscape.

Our “donut pictures” are anti-realist and anti-perspectival. We turn many all too ordinary urban spots into story spaces of the fantastic, dramatizing the fluidity of movement and highlighting architectural structures and textures of surfaces.

SPACE ON DISPLAY: a four-part event

Archival Space
The flamboyance of our exhaustive experiments with the lens will be presented as a computerized data space, called Donut/face: the Database. Here, the visitor will get a glimpse of the diversity and variety of our matching exercises between camera, spatial and movement factors. Each clip will be mapped against basic shooting and camera information as well as interpretive classification including location and time, emotions, and architectural structure.

Narrative Space
The “donut pictures” are also turned into the stage for drama. When a panoramic view is compressed onto a spheric view, simultaneity becomes the key interest of story-telling. The human spectator’s grasp of a full view via the free movement of the body is now replaced by a special form of omnipresence with a static viewing position. This intensifies the anticipation for inherent, limitless stories to emerge within the self-contained, framed donut space.

“12 Robes / 4 Couples / 1 Cycle” is a floor projection of a looping story that is only possible on a donut-shape surface of 360˚ capture. “Interview with the Queen” is a tale of the human bodies opening up for unusual dramatic functions.

To See and Walk Differently
Two weekend workshops open to the public are organized for those interested in creating optical tools with banal everyday objects that make us see and move around differently. Tools created will be integrated into the exhibition space.

Para/Site Art Space is a registered charity art organisation, financially supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and private donations.

Weekend Workshop: 12 March （Saturday） and 19 March (Saturday) 2005 - 2:30-4:30pm

Opening Party: March 4, 2005 (Friday) , 7pm

Para/Site Art Space
G/F, 4 Po Yan Street (224 Hollywood Road), Sheung Wan, HK
Gallery hours: 12 - 7pm, closed on Mon, Tue & Public holidays

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