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[wastedwinter]

Each personality appears to have lost its centre. – Fiona Tan from 10 Madnesses

[islandsofthemind]

Cloud Island 🏝 Fiona Tan

This 45 minute film depicts the small island of Inujima which is located in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea. Inujima is in many ways exemplary of Japan’s last 400 years of industrialization. Once an island of fishermen and farmers, Inujima then became a place of granite quarries and copper refineries. Now all the works stand empty; the quarries filled with water, factory chimneys crumbling. The island’s aged population has dwindled to around fifty people who continue their day-to-day lives in this evocative and rather neglected place where clipped trees and well tended allotments stand next to abandoned homes.

Fiona Tan filmed Inujima in May 2010 just as the first phase of a project commissioned by the Naoshima Fukutake Art Museum was being completed. The architect Kazuyo Sejima has been engaged by the museum to create ten pavilions for the exhibition of artworks on the island. So this a moment of transition for Inujima and from time to time one glimpses the building works or one of the startling new structures whose shiny contemporaneity seems somehow at odds with its surroundings. But in Tan’s film this sense of change is felt almost more than it is seen. Cloud Island is a slow, quiet work. A film which is in many ways about waiting.

Source: https://fionatan.nl/project/cloud-island/

[islandsofthemind]

Island 🏝 Fiona Tan

The work of Fiona Tan, with its characteristic visual richness and singular temporalities, examines complex issues such as the relationship between personal and collective history, the role of memory and the existence of the past in the present.

Filmed on the Swedish island of Gotland, "Island" (2008) explores the relationship between the moving image and memory, which are capable of transporting us to different places and times. A voice-over relates the story of a woman who came to the island to be alone, for a period of temporary retreat. The narrator discloses the intimate thoughts of this absent figure, her distant memories, her desire for exile, her often ambiguous relationship with the world and with time.

Island emerged from Tan’s annual excursions to Gotland, an island off the east coast of Sweden, the location of the renowned Russian film maker, Andrei Tarkovsky’s last film The Sacrifice. Filmed in black and white, Island is comprised of shots that traverse a stark landscape of trees, horizon and clouds. The slow camera work, coupled with the lack of human presence, creates a sense of unease in the viewer and evokes the feeling that time has been suspended. Voice-over narration recounts a woman’s experience and memories of an unnamed island, and allows the viewer to extrapolate meaning from the austere images presented. With Tarkovsky’s apocalyptic last film as a point of departure, Island represents for Tan an imaginary retreat in search of an appropriate individual response to threat, disruption and danger.

More info: https://fionatan.nl/project/island/

[ingridpuiyeechu]

Photo album for the ages -- "Can I possibly explain why I love this photo so much? It is an opportunity begging to be remembered in image" -- #FionaTan from 'The Wink of an Eye' a short film transferred to video and part of her spotlight on 'Vox Populi' her @bookworksuk artist's book series, come see/read in the #TaiKwunContemporary #ArtistsBookLibrary today (through Sat 17 Aug) 📸📚 #Repost @taikwuncontemporary • • • • • • [Tomorrow 15.08.2019] Slideshow and book display⠀ ⠀ [明天 15.08.2019] 幻燈片放映及書籍陳列⠀ ⠀ 「封面之下：藝術出版調查」焦點節目：Fiona Tan 《人民之聲》 和 《眨眼之間》影片作品⠀ ⠀ "Under-Cover: Investigations in Art Publishing" Spotlight: “Vox Populi” book series and “The Wink of an Eye” video by Fiona Tan⠀⠀ ⠀ 15.08.2019 藝術家書籍圖書館⠀Tai Kwun Contemporary’s Artists’ Book Library ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ 營房大樓03-206室 Room 03-206, Barrack Block⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ 以家庭相冊的照片，呈現出一個國家或社群的「快照」⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ 《人民之聲》是出生於印尼、現居阿姆斯特丹的藝術家Fiona Tan所創作的書籍名稱。該書收集了普通老百姓拍攝的業餘攝影作品，將之自由組合，按「家庭」、「自然」、「肖像」等類別來選輯，表現了人們從出生至死亡的大致過程。 ⠀ ⠀ 照片的顏色和取景角度，喚起另一時空的感覺，卻比今天紀實風格的「自拍」照片更早出現。⠀ ⠀ "Vox Populi" is a series of artist’s books by Fiona Tan, an Indonesian-born artist based in Amsterdam that provides a “snapshot” of a country or a community through photographs from family albums.⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ Shaped from a loose configuration of photographs collected in different cities, Fiona Tan’s selection reveals categorisations like “Home”, “Nature”, and “Portraits”, and approximations of lives lived from birth to death.⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ Additionally, the recorded colour and camera angles harken to another time and place; namely, a style predating today’s selfie-motivated photo-documentation style.⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ -⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ 此活動乃「封面之下：藝術出版調查」節目之一⠀This event is a part of the programme series "Under-Cover: Investigations in Art Publishing". ⠀ ⠀ 詳情請瀏覽大館網頁 ⠀⠀ Please visit Tai Kwun website for more information⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ 圖片 Images: ⠀ ⠀ 《人民之聲》“Vox Populi” – Fiona Tan⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ 鳴謝藝術家本人及倫敦 Frith Street Gallery⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ Courtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London.⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ #taikwuncontemporary #ablundercover #artistsbooks #undercoverartpublishing #hongkong #FionaTan (at 大館 Tai Kwun) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1LKn_KlaB8/?igshid=3vgscapcazqp

[fujimoto-h]

『堂島リバービエンナーレ2019』に来た。 #空音央 #佐藤允 #FionaTan #DarrenAlmond #GerhardTichter (堂島リバーフォーラム) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0c8qpKlb4F/?igshid=18nowwwfocqa6

[arianelalibre]

Fiona Tan Elsewhere, 2018 Presented by Frith Street, London and Peter Freeman, Inc., New York City Dystopias abound in current pop culture. Whether including zombies, natural catastrophes, or repressive theocracies, they have overtaken utopias as the most discussed - and sometimes probable - future prospects. In her work Elsewhere (2018), Dutch-Indonesian artist Fiona Tan interrogates the potential contradictions and intersections between these two speculative approaches. Inspired by classics of utopian literature such as Tommaso Campanella’s The City of the Sun (1623), Tan has written her own concept of this age-old idea, combining it with a Los Angeles panorama characterized by the city’s most unpleasant aspects: traffic and pollution. This gesture is, however, not motivated by irony or sarcasm; it rather seeks to interrogate the ambiguous qualities of utopian thought, chiefly its lack of consideration for reality and human nature. Elsewhere will be presented in Basel by London’s Frith Street Gallery and New York City’s Peter Freeman, Inc.

[dassigil]

Fiona Tan 'Laps of memory' #fionatan #tlvmuseum #henry #brightonpalace (at מוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות)

[cathrineliberg]

One of the things that bothered me about the whole multicultural/post-colonial discussion in art is that it became a discussion only about politics and political positions, particularly during the last decade of the last century. The visual side of things was too often neglected. Images (and as an artist I consider myself an image-maker), their role, their importance, their ambiguities seemed to play too minor a role.

Fiona Tan