Associação Cultural Videobrasil

Statement Woo Ling-ling

The heated flow of global communication does create serious danger for all of us to maintain personal memories. It also opens up the wound of disintegration in local cultures, where collective memories become monopolized by capitalistic opportunists. As computer is becoming to be part of our ‘daily necessities,’ a lot of experiences in life is turning into a series of categorized and commonly depicted images, flowing along some designed ‘emotional charts,’ mapping or projecting the latest trend of ‘taste’ in consumption. Art, if not handled with special care, can easily be transformed into merely consumer tool, articulating human experience through computerized commercial routes, without paying the needed attention to personal experience. Through the eye of a digital video camera, it is important to identify the differences between objects of tamed desire and untamed observation. It is not only important to re-draft our own mind map in order to rediscover our own landscape of emotions. Through reinventing new language to translate our daily experience, the camera is not only an antenna that serves as our movable and extended sense organ, but also a hand to touch on uncommon threads that try to limit our scope of observation. Body seems to be the last remaining issue that tries to stay intact as an entity from any form of electronic-digital invasion. Landscape of the body remains to be the most sensual and touching spectrum in life that works directly to our senses. The important thing is to work as honestly as possible and allow the least intrusion of any kind in the process of re-discovering the potential magic in body movement. Silently touching the hidden body wave that reflects the deepest sense latent in our memories remains to be the subject of interest in my work. Simplicity is the golden route to transform these magical ‘landscape’ into art media experience. The measure of a Cloud – director’s statement The Measure of a Cloud adopts a theatrical environment to explore the sexual tension in a woman’s mind. The image itself reveals the familiar body as unfamiliar by subjecting it to conscious viewing and analysis, it is indeed a revelation of a state of being and lasting. Throughout the whole piece, she sees herself sitting alone, clouded with intense emotions with no physical action except parts that expanded her thoughts and emotion. Motion and non-motion, clothed and naked (as a metaphor), intimacy and isolation, and micro-aspects of human contact are all subjects of studies in the creative process. Physical Non-motion often implies a series of active motion going on internally. Measuring the potential scale of such flow of energy can be fascinating and intriguing in a sense, especially when people often tends to ignore such state of non-motion with a single attitude. When we are clouded in the mind, things do happen inside, only that we fail to grasp solidly and clearly on the nature of being locked in a particular emotional capacity. The flow of thoughts and emotions floating from within can be vivid and worth examining. This is an attempt to articulate the ‘measure’ of ‘a cloud’ in a person.

Associação Cultural Videobrasil