Screening x Panel Talk: “Directional Protection”
Time: 2018 November 10th, 15:00-17:00
Venue: 1F CREATER SPACE, No.888 Huashan Road, Shanghai
Panelists: Ellen Zweig, Bruce Ding
Please RSVP to info@arthubasia.org
On the occasion of our online screening program and Exhibition on the Table featuring Ellen Zweig, Arthub will organize an offline screening paired with a panel talk between Zweig and curator Bruce Ding on the 10th of November in Shanghai.
The screening will present Directional Protection along with other short videos. It is a presentation of years of research Zweig has carried out about the folk stories of foxes in pan East Asia area, specifically in China and Japan.
This video is organized by imagining a Japanese fox who is charged with traveling from Kyoto to Shanghai. He is diverted to a small village called Qiuzhuang where he inhabits a woman for many years. Finally, he is able to travel to Shanghai where he explores the alleys of the city. In the end, he flies to New York, where he overhears a discussion about foxes in the Yi Jing and the Shi Jing between two Westerners trying to unpack the meaning of foxes in Asian culture.
About Ellen Zweig
Ellen Zweig is a media artist and writer. She has been working in film and video since the late 90s, creating videos and video installations. Since 2007, she has been working on an homage to the documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens and his last film, “Une Histoire du Vent,” filming as Ivens did in China. From 2007-2013, she documented Z’EV’s concerts, collecting and editing materials for the feature length video, “Heart Beat Ear Drum,” her first documentary feature.
About Bruce Ding
Bruce Ding received his MSc from the University of Edinburgh and is now an artist, convener and writer. Involved with various artistic and social practices, he often switched among different roles to work in different contexts and territories in order to disrupt unnecessary barriers. For the past few years, Ding has been researching and practising “Art as Connection”, and searching for new approaches to address various emerging issues.