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Dark River
Chi Jang Yin
Dark River
Experimental Documentary, 6 minutes, color, stereo sound, Digital Video, 2010
Production: China/USA
Premiere
Chicago Filmmakers, Curator: Todd Lillethun, Chicago, IL, 2010.
Synopsis
It is a still night and two elderly women, fellow artists and friends, walk on a path side by side along a river that runs through a Chinese village. It has been 50 years and they have not forgotten the propaganda songs that they learned at the educational camps during the Cultural Revolution. Rather than acknowledging them as nationalistic creations, the two friends have turned the songs into a longing for their youth.
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Lighthouse
Chi Jang Yin
Lighthouse
16 minutes, color, stereo sound, DV, 2009
Production: China/USAAward
Distinction Prize Award and Honorable Mention at the IN-OUT Festival, the Lazniz Centre for Contemporary Art (Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Łaźnia), Poland, 2009
World Premiere
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival (IDFA)
Film Distribution
Video Data Bank (VDB), The School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2001–present
Short Synopsis
“Lighthouse” is about Chinese workers working and living at a factory town in southern China. The viewer is led to actively compose narratives through the ironic and the sublime images. It aims to open borders that separate cultural, linguistic and historical differences in the global labor systems.
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The Zone
Chi Jang Yin
The Zone
A series of 15 digital photographs, inkjet print, 25 x 39 inches, 2009 - 2011
Artist's StatemeArtist Statement
Shot over the course of three years in China, this series portrays migrant workers in Guangdon, China, and investigates the performative gesture of body language in the setting of collective gatherings. -
In Transience
Anida Yoeu Ali
performance & installation (performed with Mary Jane Villamor) 8-hour durational performance in various sites of transit in downtown Chicago area
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In Transience
Anida Yoeu Ali
performance & installation (performed with Mary Jane Villamor) 8-hour durational performance in various sites of transit in downtown Chicago area
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In Transience
Anida Yoeu Ali
performance & installation (performed with Mary Jane Villamor) Installation (video and cardboard signs) part of “The Embedded Flaw” Exhibition & Performance Betty Rymer Gallery (Chicago) Exhibition runs Dec 11 – Jan 14, 2010
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Living Memory/Living Absence
Anida Yoeu Ali
this piece first debuted in Phnom Penh as part of The Mekong Project Artist Residency 2004
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Palimpsest for Generation 1.5
Anida Yoeu Ali
part of “The Embedded Flaw” Exhibition & Performance
opening reception performance and mixed media installation at Betty Rymer Gallery (Chicago) Dec 11, 09