Film screeningThursday 28 February 2019
6:00pm – 7:00pm
Bodyscapes - New films by Japanese artists
Drinks reception: 7:00pm – 8:00pm
13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle (entrance facing Regent's Park), London NW1 4QP
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
Bodyscapes is a collection of new films by Japanese artists whose use of the body is central to their work – either as a landscape, a political metaphor or method of expression – the body acts as a vehicle and subject to communicate ideas.
In Fuyuhiko Takata’s Little Mermaid-inspired Cambrian Explosion, Takata’s character – Princess Mermaid – attempts to create his own legs by bloodily sawing his tail in half. Aya Momose attempts to speak and converse with a goat, to share feelings of forgiveness and pain following the commitment from one body to another in her film, To Cuddle a Goat, a Poor Grammar Exercise. And in The Educational System of an Empire by Hikaru Fujii, the artist asks a group of young South Koreans to re-enact the tyrannical actions of colonial Japan upon the nation of Korea. All five films are UK premieres. The screening was followed by a Q&A session with videoclub’s Director and Curator.
About the contributors
Jamie Wyld
Jamie Wyld is the Director of videoclub. He is a curator with more than 18 years experience of working in the arts. Together with moving image artist Ben Rivers, and artist and curator Laura Mousavi, Jamie established videoclub in 2005 in response to the lack of artists’ film platforms and support for emerging practitioners. Jamie has held numerous roles in the arts and cultural sector, including Programme Curator at digital culture agency Lighthouse; Digital Arts Programmer at Showroom Cinema in Sheffield; and Visual Arts Officer at Arts Council England.
Moritz Cheung
Moritz Cheung is the Curator of videoclub. She joined videoclub in 2014, working on curating and delivering programmes across the UK and internationally; this work includes Both Sides Now, a collaboration between Videotage (Hong Kong) and videoclub, working across the UK and East Asia. He is co-curator of videoclub’s ON AIR programme, an on-going UK-China cultural exchange project, a collaboration with International Art & Science Research Institute in Shanghai. In 2017, Moritz curated Ritual for videoclub, the first UK touring programme of artists’ film and video by SE Asian artists.