All about Video art

Workshop 2.12.2006 (Sat)
Goethe-Gallery, Goethe-Institut Hongkong
14/F Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wanchai


Pictures : Bjørn Melhus, No Sunshine, Germany, 1997 |Rosemarie Trockel, Buffalo Billy + Milly, Germany, 2000 | Joseph Beuys, Filz-TV, Germany, 1970



10:00am - 12:30pm
Welcome note by Michael Müller-Verweyen, Director, Goethe-Institut Hongkong

Session 1 - Flash back to the last 40 years of Video Art
- The discovery of video art and the establishment of a video art archive

Speakers
- Wulf Herzogenrath, Director, Kunsthalle Bremen; Curator of 40 Years of Video Art
- Ellen Pao, Founder, Videotage

12:30pm - 2:00pm
Lunch break

2:00pm - 3:15pm
Session 2 - The impact of video art on the traditional art and vice versa
- How did the new technical options change our concept of art?
- What do people find challenging with new technology?
- Does technology bring video art to an end?
- Video Art vs Amateur Video

Speakers
- Isaac Leung, Programme Director, Videotage
- Yip Yuk-yiu, Assistant Professor, School of Creative Media, City University Hong Kong

3:15pm - 4:00pm
- Coffee break
Intermission - screening of video art works at Goethe-Studio

4:00pm - 5:30pm
Session 3 - Is video art the antiquity of new media art?
- How did video art change the definition of art, from its original documentary form to its new focus on visual impact?
- Internet distribution: how does the new trend of internet distribution influence video art (e.g. You Tube)?
- Is video art becoming a traditional art form (such as painting and sculpture)?

Speakers
- Tobias Berger, Executive Director, Para/Site Art Space
- May Fung, Video artist
- Wulf Herzogenrath, Director, Kunsthalle Bremen; Curator of 40 Years of Video Art

Programme subject to change.
Conducted in English. Admission free.

The '40 Years of Video Art - Digital Heritage' installation which takes place at the Goethe-Gallery from 2.12.2006 - 15.1.2007 focuses on saving, maintaining and mediating the cultural heritage of Video Art, which has become one of the most influential art forms of the 20th century. The works were shown in Germany earlier at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and the K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf before coming to Hong Kong, among them videos by Marina Abramovic, Joseph Beuys, Rebecca Horn, Christian Jankowski, Nam June Paik... etc. Apart from the package curated by Wulf Herzogenrath, Director of Kunsthalle Bremen in Germany, an overview of Hongkong-based video and new media art collective Videotage's own archive from the past 20 years will also be showcased in the installation.

Installation at Goethe-Gallery designed by: Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix