Performances and Opening Reception for Cinematic Involutions

Join us for a Projection Performance by Simon Liu, Performative Screening by Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi with live accompaniment by Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, and Opening Reception to celebrate the opening of Cinematic Involutions. Following their performances, Liu and Nguyen-Chi will be in conversation with curator Toby Wu, followed by a reception on Level 1 of the Carpenter Center.

Please note: Performances depict sequences of flashing lights.

6:00–7:45 pm, Projection Performance + Performative Screening, Theater, Lower Level 
7:45–9:00 pm, Opening Reception, Level 1

Free and open to the public.

Seating in the Carpenter Center is limited, and will be accommodated on a first come, first serve basis.

Please email [email protected] with any questions about accessing the theater.

Projection Performance by Simon Liu 
 
Harbour City. 2015. Dual 16mm projection performance. Silent. 12 min. 
Highview. 2017. Quadruple 16mm projection performance. Silent. 22 min. 
 
[on Highview] "Upon the North Point a torrential downpour of instants tease their way into sight, but never fully form. Shutter-induced memories reduced to speckles, dissipating into fog. Here, my initial disappointments in a material defect morph into opportunity - satisfying an itch to melt instances together, to see any number of places as one. I want to go home. These images were meant to show us what goes where - but I can't make out the path. Maybe we should lay them all out on the floor and try to put the pieces back together. In another five days, I'll need to leave." — Simon Liu 
 
Please be warned that this section of the program contains some flashing lights sequences. 

Performative Screening by Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, with live accompaniment by Andrew Yong Hoon Lee 

They breathe, the celestials. 
co-created by Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi with Jade Barget, Andrew Yong Hoon Lee, and Fabian Saul, video projection, live accompaniment, 20 mins. 

Exploring the intersection of cinema, text, and sound through an assemblage of found footage, the artists map out our entanglements with elemental media, such as the skies and their celestial bodies––the carriers of information since time immemorial. Gazing skywards and subterraneously, we will be thinking of ways of seeing and being when tangled in weather and planetary motions. We will pay particular attention to vision caught in clouds, fog, or mist—compromised ways of seeing, asking for uncertain ways of sensing. 
 
This performative screening is the first of three chapters which will continue at the Museum of Art and History in Geneva and the Migros Museum in Zürich.