By Any Means, Screening Programme: Duilian by Wu Tsang

V.O Curations

Developed in tandem with By Any Means, a group exhibition at V.O Curations curated by Gray Wielebinski, that explores the notion of revenge.

V.O Curations - 56 Conduit Street

By Any Means: Screening ProgrammeCurated by Gray Wielebinski and Cairo ClarkeIV. Duilian by Wu TsangRunning time, 26 min04.08.20211pm | 4pm Inspired by the untold personal story of the 19th-century Chinese poet and revolutionary Qiu Jin, Wu Tsang’s film, Duilian, brings to life, subverts and re-enacts the lesser-known romance and friendship between the poet and calligrapher, Wu Zhiying. Set in contemporary Hong Kong, the film shifts between time and space, past and present, fact and fiction through Tsang’s continued exploration of language and misinterpretation. Duilian employs alternative storytelling structures as a way to create new worlds, and to interact with various narratives of revenge. Histories, rules and power are rewritten and reclaimed, and new possibilities of being are not only offered up, but manifested. In its relationship to speculation and (mis)translation, Duilian is a channel through which Tsang contemplates how much of herself she is willing or able to “give away”, who is prioritised, what it means to keep one for oneself and for others who already speak her language, or perhaps are able to surrender to it. Duilian is being presented as part of a screening programme co-curated by V.O artist in residence, Gray Wielebinski, and curator/writer, Cairo Clarke. The programme runs in tandem with By Any Means, a group exhibition that runs from 23 July through 26 August in the gallery. Screenings will take place in the 5th floor project space at V.O Curations, 56 Conduit Street, W1S 2YZ. The room is accessible by stairs and lift, and to ensure the safety of our visitors, we are limiting screenings to a maximum of 10 people, and masks must be worn for the duration of the event. Wu Tsang is a multimedia artist and filmmaker. Her work explores issues of transgender identity and queer communities. Tsang's films, performances, and installations have been presented at museums and film festivals internationally. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston, the Wexner Center for the Arts, The Geffen Contemporary at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia; and La MaMa Galleria. In 2012, Tsang was the only artist to have work featured in the concurrent Whitney Biennial and the New Museum Triennial. Tsang has also presented projects at the Gwangju Biennial in South Korea, the Liverpool Biennial, and the Hammer Museum Biennial. Her work has been screened at the Guggenheim Museum, REDCAT, Tate Modern, London; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Frieze Art Fair; and Identities Film Festival, Vienna. After receiving her FCA support, Tsang was a 2014 Rockefeller Bellagio Creative Arts Fellow (2014), and is Creative Capital Fellow (2015). Prior to her 2013 Grants to Artists, Tsang was a Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellow (2012) and a Film Independent Project Involve Directing Fellow (2012). In 2004, Tsang received a B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 2010 he received an Interdisciplinary Studio M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.__________________________________________________________________________________________Former V.O artist in residence, Gray Wielebinski, and curator/writer, Cairo Clarke, have programmed a series of film screenings in dialogue with By Any Means, an exhibition curated by Wielebinski that runs from 23 July until 26 August in the V.O gallery. The conception of a screening programme nods to the legacy of the underground and adult film cultures in the neighbouring London area of Soho, allowing for the thinking through of opacity as a tool to maintain the existence of spaces and communities that are constantly being pushed out and destroyed by institutional, commercial and capital-orientated power structures, whilst also recognising the danger of opacity when used by those structures themselves. The films speak to this further, each embodying their own visual, oral and written language, whilst also situating themselves in conversation with familiar types of cinema. In doing so, as a viewer, certain familiar codes carry us through: collage, translation, revenge fantasy and nature documentary, whilst the filmmakers and artists subvert and redirect us to engage critically with narrative and moving-image. Propaganda continues to be inherently interwoven into mainstream Hollywood cinema, obfuscating large power structures with white, cis, revenge-based narratives. When revenge is individualised what happens to collective justice? Where does it sit in this dichotomy? How is it articulated and by whom? The films in this programme speak to all of these questions, arriving at no one answer, but rather, inviting us to take heed to the questions and articulations that arise in us and our relations to the world.By Any Means, Screening Programme Schedule I. Saturday 24 July - Welcome II the Terrordome by Ngozi OnwurahRunning time, 98 min 1pm | 4pmII. Saturday 31 July - Terror Nullius by Soda JerkRunning time, 54 min1pm | 4pmIII. Saturday 7 August - Metamorphosis, Part 3: EmergenceProduced by The Institute of Queer EcologyCommissioned by <a href="https://dis.art/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">DIS</a>Running time, 15 minFilm will run on loop throughout the dayIV. Saturday 14 August - Duilian by Wu TsangRunning time, 26 min1pm | 4pmGray Wielebinski (b. 1991 Dallas, TX, USA) received a BA from Pomona College, Claremont CA, USA in 2014 before completing an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK in 2018. He lives and works in London and LA. In Wielebinski’s expansive practice, which incorporates video, performance, collage, installation and sculpture. he explores the intersections of mythology, identity, gender, nationhood and memory. Reconfiguring and transforming iconography and visual codes, their work seeks to navigate society’s frameworks and belief systems. Engaging directly with the contexts in which we live, Wielebinski reveals how narratives reflect and shape our identities. His work opens up the possibilities for a more inclusive storytelling, by reimagining dominant societal mythology. Recent exhibitions include Two Snakes, a solo show at 12.26 Gallery in Dallas, Texas (2020), Our Ashes Make Great Fertilizer at Public Gallery, London, (2020) Repurposed Textiles at Krefelder Kunstverein in Krefeld, DE (2020) and at Frieze London with Hales Gallery, London, where he currently has a solo show.Cairo Clarke is a curator and writer whose work is informed by slowness. Her work centers on forms of knowledge production and dissemination that slip between the cracks, are formed on unstable ground and take on multiple temporalities. Cairo has worked closely with artists to develop and share instances of work across film, performance, printed matter and events as well as sharing self-led curatorial projects. In 2019 she launched SITE, a publication and curatorial project exploring alternative encounters with artist practice and the dissemination of research. Cairo is the 2020/21 Curatorial Fellow at LUX.

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