 Under the Cement, Sediment: Recent Video In and Around China
Thursday, October 28, 6:00 p.m.
Curator Pablo de Ocampo in person!
Gene Siskel Film Center
(162 N. State St. / 312.846.2600)
Image: Still from "Factory" (Chen Chieh-Jen, 2003). Courtesy the artist.
In Yang Zhenzhong's 2003 video Spring Story , a group of 1,500 employees at a Siemens factory recite an oft-cited line from a 1992 Deng Xiaoping speech: "A planned economy is not equivalent to socialism, because there is planning under capitalism too; a market economy is not capitalism, because there are markets under socialism too." This speech is now seen as a milestone in the creation of China's new hybrid economy, which embraces both socialist and free enterprise forces. Curated and introduced by Pablo de Ocampo, Artistic Director of the Images Festival in Toronto, the works in this program examine the country's recent political and economic transformations through its urban and industrial landscape. Additional pieces include Chen Chieh-Jen's haunting Factory (2003), shot in an abandoned textile factory with its former employees re-enacting their work amidst the ruins; Oliver Husain's Swivel (2005), which consists of a continuous panning shot of a hyper developed and glossy Shanghai; and Zhao Liang's City Scene (2005), which captures street life in Beijing in a series of short vignettes. Multiple artists, 2003-05, Canada/China/Germany/Taiwan, multiple formats, ca. 90 min.
PABLO DE OCAMPO (1976, Phoenix, AZ) lives in Toronto, Canada, where he is the Artistic Director of the Images Festival, Canada's largest platform for the exhibition of experimental and innovative film and video art practice. Prior to his post at Images, de Ocampo resided in Portland, Oregon, where co-founded the experimental film screening series Cinema Project and was the Executive Director of the Independent Publishing Resource Center.
CATE is org anized by the School of the Art Institute's Department of Film, Video, New Media & Animation in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and the Video Data Bank .
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UPCOMING PROGRAMS:
11/4 - Civil Status: Films by Alina Rudnitskaya (Alina Rudnitskaya in person!)
11/11 - Erie (Kevin Jerome Everson in person!)
11/18 - Reenactments (Curator Irina Botea in person!)
12/2 - The Unstable Object (Daniel Eisenberg in person!)
LOCATION AND TICKETS
Programs take place Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State St.), unless otherwise noted.
CATE is now FREE to SAIC students with a valid student ID. Tickets are $10 General public, $5 Film Center members, $7 students, and $4 SAIC faculty and staff and Art Institute of Chicago staff.
Any person with a disability who would like to request an accommodation for this program should contact the Disability and Learning Resource Center at dlrc@saic.edu or 312.499.4278 as soon as possible to allow adequate time to make proper arrangements.
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