HEP Beijing, curated by Jose Drummond, will run from 16 January (opening) to 14 March 2010 at AFA Beijing Opening hours: 12AM to 6PM Daily except mondays.
Video is one of the most prolific visual mediums in use today. The Human Emotion Project (HEP) Beijing selection links together more than 40 voices from all over the world. Presented in 4 weeks, each with a different program exploring different topics.
HEP was presented in Australia during February, in Italy during March, in Spain during April, in Portugal during May and in Macau in December. Exhibitions and screenings are also being prepared in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Romania, Greece, Iran and USA.
Drawn together by the art that they share via the Internet, artists with disparate cultural and aesthetic identities approach the internal workings that exist in all humans. Emotions are inherently difficult to explicate. How does one describe fear? We know it when we feel it but how can we share, through the paltry use of language, our experience of it? Moving images, mostly embellished with sound, extend the expressive possibilities beyond what can be accomplished through language or even static imagery. By employing the largest palette of creative possibilities, film and video artists from around the world strive to externalize those complex driving forces that we all enjoy and endure and that bind us, as humanity, together despite our differences. Alison Williams, HEP Founder & Director
Video is one of the most prolific visual mediums in use today. The Human Emotion Project (HEP) Beijing selection links together more than 40 voices from all over the world. Presented in 4 weeks, each with a different program exploring different topics.
“Paradox”, “Loss & Desire”, “Transformation” and “Fantasy” are the chosen topics for understanding video art, its own multiplicity and the reunion around the imaginative subject of The Human Emotion Project (HEP). Jose Drummond Curator
Paradox The artists in “Paradox” investigate the contradictions between documentary and performance, fact and fiction, order & chaos. What is real and what is staged? The absurdity of real life, the ambiguity of movement and the enigma of space are some of the perceptions raised in “Paradox”.
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