“The more oppressed we are, the more we rebel; the more useless we are, the more we need to act!” Inspired by the Rube Goldberg Machine, 'X Exit Useless Machine' is an absurd, bizarre and twisted mechanical design. With dancer's body and objects as starting point, the dance film explore the uselessness of a particular space and the beauty of absurdity; With the most superfluous flow of funny chain movements, they went a long way to complete an otherwise minimal and simple action. (*The concept and ideas of the work were conceived and developed from the “New Works Forum: Screendance” co-presented by the West Kowloon Cultural District and the City Contemporary Dance Company.)
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Remu Iwai (岩井REMU)
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Remu Iwai (岩井REMU)
Remu Iwai (岩井REMU)
2017
Poland
Official Selection, WRO Media Art Biennale
Remu
IWAI (HK) (real name: Kong Wai Remus NG), graduated from School of Creative
Media at City University of Hong Kong, is a cross-disciplinary artist, always
exchange and transform ideas from different disciplines, e.g. site-specific
theatre, film montage theory, or even Rube Goldberg machine, to explore issues
of human life situations, vanishing cities, personal memories...etc. Recent
works: dance-film Soul is just a Fragment of Ether (2017, created during
artist-in-residency in Malakta Art Factory, Finland), theatre work
Hemispherical Red and Black – A 2047 Odyssey (2016), mockumentary No Such Place
(2013, a Hong Kong-Wales collaborative interdisciplinary project in Chapters
Arts Centre, Cardiff) and experimental video I am looking at you looking at me
looking∞ (2011).
Remarks shared after Festival
Thanks NAE for bringing me to 2017 WRO
Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland. WRO is not just a traditional film
festival. Film/Video were presented not only in screening, but also as video
installation etc.. [More]
Thanks NAE for bringing me to 2017 WRO
Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland. WRO is not just a traditional film
festival. Film/Video were presented not only in screening, but also as video
installation etc. I am amazed that there are still many unexplored
possibilities of moving images. And it is my pleasure to gain so many responses
from other artists and audiences directly after the screenings. Moreover, I
have met several artists from different countries. It was a super fruitful
journey for me.
— Shared by Ng Kong-wai Remus, director
of X Exit Useless Machine after
attending the 2017 WRO Media Art Biennale in Poland under the sponsorship of
NAE.
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