Скачать или смотреть Hong Kong Sign Language｜Artist Angela Su on Superheroes, Identity, and Social Media

Hong Kong artist Angela Su discusses how the acts of self-transformation and world-building featured in the exhibition ‘Angela Su: Arise, Hong Kong in Venice’ extend throughout her decades-long practice, interpreted here in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL).

Hong Kong artist Angela Su walks the tightrope between many disciplines and realities. Trained in both biochemistry and fine art, Su creates deeply researched projects that unfold in intersecting worlds. Fantastical yet meticulous illustrations recall anatomical drawings and Rorschach tests. Hair embroideries spin a tension between exacting precision and untameable locks. Video, performance, and installations probe themes of nature and technology, control and resistance, body and mind.

This year, Su has been selected to represent Hong Kong at the 59th Venice Biennale. Her exhibition, ‘Angela Su: Arise, Hong Kong in Venice’, presents the story of Lauren O, an alter ego who believes she can levitate and who becomes involved with Laden Raven, a fictional activist group inspired by the US anti-war movement of the 1960s. In this video, she discusses how the acts of self-transformation and world-building featured in the exhibition extend throughout her decades-long practice, as she prepares to shoot her own gravity-defying feat for the new pseudo-documentary, ‘The Magnificent Levitation Act of Lauren O’.

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‘Why is it that since time immemorial, humans have had a desire to fly? It might be a pursuit of freedom, a pursuit of transcendence, or a pursuit of something you can't achieve. I know I can't do it, but I persist.’
— Angela Su

A special thank you to Arts With the Disabled Association Hong Kong.

English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese closed captions are available in the player.

Transcript: https://mplus.org/angela-su-hksl-en
影片謄本: https://mplus.org/angela-su-hksl-tc
视频文稿: https://mplus.org/angela-su-hksl-sc

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