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Reflecting Locations

Hanz Au Lok Hang; Diana Morena Buser; Karen Hau Ka Lam; Allison Hun Yun; Linda Lai; Chung Lee Kai; Jelena Pavlovic; Thomas Schärer; Katarina Stefanovic; Birk Weiberg; Joanna-Yulia Wierig; Winnie Yan Wai Yin

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      • Reflecting Locations
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      Project title in German
      • Reflecting Locations
      Date
      • 2015-2016
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      • The increasing ubiquity of live video feeds from all parts of the world has a similar effect as the legendary Blue Marble photo, which NASA produced and distributed in 1972. In both cases one’s immediate perception of the world is challenged by images that suggest different scales. But while the orbital view has remained a privileged one, the possibility to see in full color, motion and real time what is happening at the other end of the world has become available for everyone who is equipped with a computer or smart phone and has access to the Internet. Satellite transmissions of foreign correspondents on television used original backgrounds to attest themselves credibility. And the fact that these sites were often added by technical means changed little about this. Today live video has turned into a casual add-on for private conversation over Skype. Google Streetview or Google Earth deliver images of even the remotest parts of our planet. The fastest growing part of the internet are (moving) images. We seem to have access to as much visual information as any generation before. As different international protest movements in the last years have shown, this also has a political dimension because of the affective power and the solidarity, but also the control and misuses that may come with it.

        Reflecting Locations is a research project with students from Hong Kong and Zurich that reflects on the ways that such dispositifs shape our understanding and our imagination of places where we have never been. Which mental images do we develop of the “other” (places)? On the basis of which information, projections and imaginations? How are these mental images related to media images we are getting of the physical and historical world? And what are the effects of the confrontation between mental images, media images and a physical presence on the “real” site where images (or in the case of compositing parts of them) have been shot?

        Starting points for this inquiry are on the one hand the artistic practices of the participating artists and on the other hand historical trajectories that can offer alternative view on the implicitness on contemporary media practices. One of the relatives here is the genre of ethnographic cinema, which pursues the scholarly method of participant observation of more or less familiar cultures/ethnicities by audiovisual means. This is contrasted with the practice of commercial Hollywood cinema to engage small teams (so called second units) to produce moving backgrounds for studio sets. In the course of second unit practices two locations, two perspectives are merged into a single moving image. The emerging images of “the other” are necessarily projections or collages and not or only partly a result of an involvement with the other. This is exactly what the ethnographic cinema strives for. But also here previously conducted research, assumptions, and scales of values take effects. The filmmakers inscribe themselves through their perspectives, formal decisions, and selections into their images of the other. Both practices of dealing with the other have sustainably informed our visual memories when it comes to the represented places and people and may serve to bring our contemporary forms of audiovisual telepresence into question.

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          • Merry-Go-Round Round and Round, Chinese Garden is Out of Town/氹氹轉呀轉又轉 中華花園五里遠

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            • 05.02.2016 - 06.02.2016
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            • Perhaps distance is a relative concept. It took three days for me to recognize a place where I got lost for two hours on the previous day. Then I realized that it took only five minutes of walking to our apartment in Zurich. Without browsing the internet map or referencing any photographs taken during the journey, I drew a map every night according to my memory. Then, I also invited different indivi­duals, who live in Zurich, to draw a map for me as well.
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            • ZHdK
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            Study path
            Project title in German
            • Reflecting Locations
            Lecturer / head of project
            • Birk Weiberg, Linda Lai, Lee Kai Chung and Thomas Schärer
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            03.03.2016
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            • Reflecting Locations

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              • Exhibition Handout
              Date
              • 05.02.2016 - 06.02.2016
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              • ZHdK
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              17.03.2016
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              • Hong King Kong

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                • 05.02.2016 - 06.02.2016
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                • I need a person as mirror – I need a soul to
                  confess.

                  The work takes the recipient to a digital diary. Wild, obscure and diffuse is the reflection. The
                  distance ice cracks. The intercultural meltwater flows, irrigates new senses, forms deep thoughts valleys. It drives away, floating to new shores till the end will calm the sea.
                Copyright holder
                • ZHdK
                type
                Study path
                Project title in German
                • Reflecting Locations
                Lecturer / head of project
                • Birk Weiberg, Linda Lai, Lee Kai Chung and Thomas Schärer
                Imported on
                03.03.2016
                Parent sets
                1

                • Hong King Kong

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                  Date
                  • 05.02.2016 - 06.02.2016
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                  Description
                  • I need a person as mirror – I need a soul to
                    confess.

                    The work takes the recipient to a digital diary. Wild, obscure and diffuse is the reflection. The
                    distance ice cracks. The intercultural meltwater flows, irrigates new senses, forms deep thoughts valleys. It drives away, floating to new shores till the end will calm the sea.
                  Copyright holder
                  • ZHdK
                  type
                  Study path
                  Project title in German
                  • Reflecting Locations
                  Lecturer / head of project
                  • Birk Weiberg, Linda Lai, Lee Kai Chung and Thomas Schärer
                  Imported on
                  03.03.2016
                  Parent sets
                  1

                  • Cages

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                    Date
                    • 05.02.2016 - 06.02.2016
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                    Description
                    • This installation displays different sortes of cages we found in Zurich and Hong Kong:

                      Inside, outside, mental, physical cage.

                      On the audio track we added personal reflections by the participants of the project while they were visiting the opposite location.
                    Copyright holder
                    • ZHdK
                    type
                    Study path
                    Project title in German
                    • Reflecting Locations
                    Lecturer / head of project
                    • Birk Weiberg, Linda Lai, Lee Kai Chung and Thomas Schärer
                    Imported on
                    03.03.2016
                    Parent sets
                    1

                    • Cages

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                      Author
                      Date
                      • 05.02.2016 - 06.02.2016
                      Keywords
                      Description
                      • This installation displays different sortes of cages we found in Zurich and Hong Kong:

                        Inside, outside, mental, physical cage.

                        On the audio track we added personal reflections by the participants of the project while they were visiting the opposite location.
                      Copyright holder
                      • ZHdK
                      type
                      Study path
                      Project title in German
                      • Reflecting Locations
                      Lecturer / head of project
                      • Birk Weiberg, Linda Lai, Lee Kai Chung and Thomas Schärer
                      Imported on
                      03.03.2016
                      Parent sets
                      1

                      • Cages

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                        Author
                        Date
                        • 05.02.2016 - 06.02.2016
                        Keywords
                        Description
                        • This installation displays different sortes of cages we found in Zurich and Hong Kong:

                          Inside, outside, mental, physical cage.

                          On the audio track we added personal reflections by the participants of the project while they were visiting the opposite location.
                        Copyright holder
                        • ZHdK
                        type
                        Study path
                        Project title in German
                        • Reflecting Locations
                        Lecturer / head of project
                        • Birk Weiberg, Linda Lai, Lee Kai Chung and Thomas Schärer
                        Imported on
                        03.03.2016
                        Parent sets
                        1

                        • Cages

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                          Author
                          Date
                          • 05.02.2016 - 06.02.2016
                          Keywords
                          Description
                          • This installation displays different sortes of cages we found in Zurich and Hong Kong:

                            Inside, outside, mental, physical cage.

                            On the audio track we added personal reflections by the participants of the project while they were visiting the opposite location.
                          Copyright holder
                          • ZHdK
                          type
                          Study path
                          Project title in German
                          • Reflecting Locations
                          Lecturer / head of project
                          • Birk Weiberg, Linda Lai, Lee Kai Chung and Thomas Schärer
                          Imported on
                          03.03.2016
                          Parent sets
                          1

                          • City Similarities

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                            Date
                            • 05.02.2016 - 06.02.2016
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                            Description
                            • In a cooperation we recorded visual similarities of Hong Kong and Zurich. We filmed before and after our visits, in each town, together and separately. We mixed imagination with real perception. What do the different scenes of these two places tell us? What are the similarities?

                              Our search for what is similar in regard to urban structures, public transport, and social inter­action in public space finally enabled us to discern the subtle differences that only surface by direct
                              comparison and juxtaposition.
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                            • ZHdK
                            type
                            Study path
                            Project title in German
                            • Reflecting Locations
                            Lecturer / head of project
                            • Birk Weiberg, Linda Lai, Lee Kai Chung and Thomas Schärer
                            Imported on
                            03.03.2016
                            Parent sets
                            1

                            • Off the Map

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                              Date
                              • 05.02.2016 - 06.02.2016
                              Keywords
                              Description
                              • Driven by the desire to play with our everyday
                                and trusted places, we decided to have a psychogeographic game.

                                We superimposed the map of Zurich on the map of Hong Kong and vice versa in order to find our own worlds in the other. The identical scales allowed us to transfer places of personal relevance to the the other city while preserving the original distances.

                                Both of us chose five places:
                                1. the house we live in
                                2. the school where we study
                                3. the film shop where we buy our supplies as photographers
                                4. our favourite street
                                5. our favourite bar
                              Copyright holder
                              • ZHdK
                              type
                              Study path
                              Project title in German
                              • Reflecting Locations
                              Lecturer / head of project
                              • Birk Weiberg, Linda Lai, Lee Kai Chung and Thomas Schärer
                              Imported on
                              03.03.2016
                              Parent sets
                              1

                              • Off the Map

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                                Author
                                Date
                                • 05.02.2016 - 06.02.2016
                                Keywords
                                Description
                                • Driven by the desire to play with our everyday
                                  and trusted places, we decided to have a psychogeographic game.

                                  We superimposed the map of Zurich on the map of Hong Kong and vice versa in order to find our own worlds in the other. The identical scales allowed us to transfer places of personal relevance to the the other city while preserving the original distances.

                                  Both of us chose five places:
                                  1. the house we live in
                                  2. the school where we study
                                  3. the film shop where we buy our supplies as photographers
                                  4. our favourite street
                                  5. our favourite bar
                                Copyright holder
                                • ZHdK
                                type
                                Study path
                                Project title in German
                                • Reflecting Locations
                                Lecturer / head of project
                                • Birk Weiberg, Linda Lai, Lee Kai Chung and Thomas Schärer
                                Imported on
                                03.03.2016
                                Parent sets
                                1

                                • Off the Map

                                  Picture: Off the Map

                                  Name that can easily go onto 2 lines

                                  Author that can easily go onto 2 lines as well

                                  Author
                                  Date
                                  • 05.02.2016 - 06.02.2016
                                  Keywords
                                  Description
                                  • Driven by the desire to play with our everyday
                                    and trusted places, we decided to have a psychogeographic game.

                                    We superimposed the map of Zurich on the map of Hong Kong and vice versa in order to find our own worlds in the other. The identical scales allowed us to transfer places of personal relevance to the the other city while preserving the original distances.

                                    Both of us chose five places:
                                    1. the house we live in
                                    2. the school where we study
                                    3. the film shop where we buy our supplies as photographers
                                    4. our favourite street
                                    5. our favourite bar
                                  Copyright holder
                                  • ZHdK
                                  type
                                  Study path
                                  Project title in German
                                  • Reflecting Locations
                                  Lecturer / head of project
                                  • Birk Weiberg, Linda Lai, Lee Kai Chung and Thomas Schärer
                                  Imported on
                                  03.03.2016
                                  Parent sets
                                  1
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