Theoretically speaking…

閉門試驗，開門展出，從遊戲規則開始。

Rules of the game: what are our controlled experiments about?

The works on display are definitely free, personal expressions. Any yet they were all created in a laboratory situation like controlled experiments… The premise was to examine a number of basic elements of moving-image-making to raise the following questions:

* what is a frame, how can the frame lines be taken with positive functions?

* how to engage in the notion of tableau and tableau vivant to heighten our sense of space and spatial organization in front of the camera?

* what are the possible subversive functions of tableau, tableau vivant and a single shot in a still frame?

* how to break away from the singularity of action, drama and movement?

* is Walter Benjamin’s idea of the “optical unconscious” just a term for critics? Can it be the premise for a video experiment?

* how would musical concepts such as polyphony and serialism, literary ideas such as parallelism and thick description, and mathematical notions such as permutation and combinatorials be turned into dialogues with image-making?

* what kind of image would result from contemplating Deleuze’s suggestions that time and space should better be understood as time-space and space-time?

* how do “time image” and “movement image” articulate and affect us in our experience of time?

* let’s listen to sound in video when it is no longer subservient to visuality but itself visuality… Sound performs…

- Linda LAI