25th August, Frogtown Artwalk, which kind of like Hong Kong Fotanian. Frogtown also work like inviting artists to open their studio in that day. The main difference I think is here the studios are located in the resident area, where the riverside area, and they also organize common events.
The festival just take place in a residency place like this
Several Lofts of studios are here, and I hope I can have this spacious kind of studio.
Some works shown
This “Autoboat”, which can move on the road and carry passenger. How crazy is the artist, but great!
This is a screening in an open area, where the screening is all about the river near to adjacent to this neighborhood. The river was dried out due the the constant over-floating and pollution. Three video are screened, a reflexive video, a documentary and a documentary of a video performance. The last one I like most, which the performers gave dynamic and expressive movement that carries a lot of symbolic meaning. In the performance, they were inversely hanged in the air by a rope hooked under a bridge, and they give extraordinary move in this situation. After a wile they back to the ground and crawled on the floor, which some how simulating the animal in the river. At the end, their act deadly and being threw to the remaining dirty river water and floated along the river stream. All move are full of tension, and give an alternative beauty.
Another “piece” by the autoboat artist. This spin can make 360 degree twirl, and player can sit on it and…
Push to spin, 360 degree, player is in the air…
My friend Justin and his partner Chris are the D/VJ today. They great music and images has filled up the atmosphere.
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