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Catch ghosts and cyborgs at this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong screenings
Curated by Para Site, this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong Film program has 7 screenings delving into modern life and creative expression
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Art Basel showcases art in many forms, from sculpture, painting, mixed media and photography, to performance, video and installation. And while many of these art forms have existed for centuries, film and video are still relatively new.
Korean-American artist Nam June Paik is credited with producing the world’s first video artwork in 1965, the year he used a Sony Portapak (a portable, videotape analogue recorder) to film Pope Paul VI processing through New York. The footage was later shown at a cafe in Greenwich Village.
“I want to shape the TV screen canvas as precisely as Leonardo, as freely as Picasso, as colourfully as Renoir, as profoundly as Mondrian, as violently as Pollock, and as lyrically as Jasper Johns,” Paik wrote. Today, filmmaking artists are doing just that as digital innovations and technology push the genre even further.
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