露丝艺术节｜艺术家介绍 — 实验影像与短片（二）

A woman discontent and bruised by city life moves to the coast to create in solitude. Her solitude brings back her imagination and connection to nature. Her body synchronises with her waterscape as she rediscovers meaning in her peace. A Room By The Sea is influenced by Virginia Woolfs, A Room of Ones Own and the work of French director Éric Rohmer. 

Vasilisa is a female film-maker and artist originally from Eastern Europe full of intensity, passion and contradictions. She has worked as a music video director for over 8 years, and has directed a prolific amount of music videos to date; winning a Shiny Award for The Specials ft. Saffiyah Khan - 10 commandments. Her video for Girli garnered over 3 million views. In the art world Vasilisa has created bold and eclectic visual art campaigns and concepts such as the #Waxchick series (which broadcast bold hyper colour portraits onto billboards in London to generate a dialogue on women's representation in public media). The Waxchick Film showcased globally at many festivals including the LSFF, East End Film Festival and ICA. Her work borders fine art and film, having been supported and showcased at the Royal Academy, Tate and ICA. 

Dew is an experimental video art piece, merged with Turkish spoken word and Mexican Indigenous original score, focusing on the isolation and change that occurs through life and death and the natural state of homo sapiens through a lens of isolation, capital individualism, womanhood, and nature. 

Işık Kaya is an international stage and screen creative based in the UK. Her diverse body of work includes directing, scriptwriting, and performing, with projects that span both stage and screen. Işık’s creations often explore themes such as identity, mental health, political safety, liberty, class differences, and womanhood, all viewed through a feminist and working-class lens to create a voice for the marginalized. Deeply committed to collaboration, community, and social impact, Işık focuses on amplifying voices that are often silenced, particularly emphasizing the immigrant experience to carry out hope and solidarity. Currently, she is the co-creator of the play The Mute Messiah, and is working on a short film exploring the lives of working class immigrant in East London. Her portfolio also includes the short films Dew (2024) and Metamorphosis (2023), the installation artwork Görüldü / Seen (2024).

Rosalind Fielding is an artist, writer and researcher from the UK, based in France. She has a PhD in contemporary performances of Shakespeare in Japan, and she is a co-editor of two recent books on Shakespeare in East Asia. She has worked with many different arts and education organisations in Europe and Japan, including Saitama Arts Theatre, the New National Theatre Tokyo, the Royal Court, Shakespeare’s Globe and Théâtre du Soleil. She was scriptwriter and creative producer for the film Grotowski’s Dream (directed by Cemil Yildiz), which was screened at the 2023 Rencontres Cinematographiques de Cavaillon, and the documentary MIMOSA (dir. Cemil Yildiz), which was shown at a special screening in the EU Parliament building in Strasbourg, in co-operation with 2nd Vice President Pina Picierno in November 2023. She is currently an artist in residence at the Couvent des Recollets in Paris. She works in English, Japanese and French.

「Cooking and grooming are both bland and boring parts of my daily life. Sometimes when I use a curling iron, I have a whim, such as using its high temperature as a baking tray? Like grilling meat? These strange and even a little bit "crazy" ideas that come to me in the midst of my boring life are another way to have fun. A curling iron isn't a real cooker, and synthetic meat isn't a real steak, it's all fake, and I'm not a real chef anyway.」

Becca Yue is a maverick creator who is good at discovering the mystery in everyday objects and transforming them into channels for conceptual expression. She works in a variety of media, including poetry, video, installation and curation, and currently lives and works in Beijing.

A group of people who get together temporarily in order to go out on the streets for Chinese New Year and some New Year's Eve parties. During the Chinese New Year, we transported a boat from Wuchang to Hankou, Wuhan City, and carried it around the streets.

This spot became one of the campsites for our Nomad drifting through the city, a place on the songline. Following this, various young people hosted wild parties in different public spaces such as ruins and under bridges.

A film with a layered soundtrack, Greenham Common was a response to the material and cultural history of Greenham Common, using site visits, field-recordings, sounds made from the military remains on the Common, and songs relating to periods of the Common’s history as a military base.

Lynn Dennison works across several disciplines, including video, installation and collage, to explore our relationship with our surroundings and how we see and experience our environment. Her single and multiple screen videos are often based in the documentary of place, exploring themes of memory, history, nostalgia, and the boundaries between the real and imagined. This works is made in collaboration with Gen Doy, whose practice focuses on sound installations, using the speaking and singing voice, and field-recordings, often with a performative element. Dennison and Doy work together on films, installations and live performances, responding to sites of historical, cultural and political significance. Their work has been commissioned and supported by grants and awards, and has been shown, installed and performed in historic sites such as Churches in London and Lincolnshire, the Flaxman Gallery at University College London, and the Roman Baths, Strand Lane, London.

I am a contemporary, interdisciplinary artist focusing on the relationships between people, places, and objects. My creative practice manifests in various outcomes which are site specific and project dependant. Recent projects include a ‘Drink for hope’ Studio Response Hereford, 2023, and Artist in residence Erddig National Trust, Wrexham, Sept Equinox 2022 to March Equinox 2023. Other notable works and projects include Colours of... Commissioned as part of the Fringe Festival Forest of Dean 2024, Colours of Stoke - Big Feast in Stoke on Trent produced by Appetite Stoke 2019 and Colours of Llandudno – Llawn produced by Culture Action Llandudno. MEWNrhwng Part 1 CARN Caernarfon / Part 2 Elysium 2021, Descent presented at Museosafari produced by finish Art Agency Natural history museum Finland 2017, Invigilator Cymru yn Fenis 2019, UNITe resident g39, Cardiff 2016. 

A single channel film bringing together four films shot in 2017/18. Each documenting a performative walk that creates a different loop or circuit within the artists’ home, a housing co-operative on the Welsh English border. 

「For this project, I have been working from an archive of family photos, recovered from a stash of negatives forgotten for over 35 years. These images, taken within a two-year period and then abandoned, were rediscovered and printed by me a year ago. 」

Helga Dóróthea Fannon is an Icelandic-British moving image artist. She graduated from Wimbledon College of Art (Print and time-based media) in 2015 and completed her masters (Moving Image) at the Royal College of Art in 2021. Using fiction, sound, and writing as narrative devices, her work borrows from phenomenology, mythologies, nature and her own disparate ancestral histories to navigate the weaving in and out of dreams, confessions, the historical, the lost and found. Creating tender and often beguiling links between these and other narratives, both found and imagined. 

JOY is a journey through the mind of a 65-year-old autistic lesbian who's addicted to sugar and can't stop thinking about her ex-girlfriend from youth. She lives with her partner—a mannequin that she’s built to look like her ex. The tragicomic piece delves deep into moments of intimacy, loneliness, sexuality, joy and the desperate longing to be loved.

Julieta Tetelbaum (Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a queer film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and sculptor based in London. Her artistic vision explores themes like gender, feminism, childhood, violence, intimacy, functional diversity, and sexuality. Tetelbaum's acclaimed short films include "The Misfortune of Femininity" (2020), "Wake Up! It's Yesterday" (2021), "Black Chalk" (2022), and "Joy" (2023). Her work is part of the Library of Congress of Argentina's collection and has been featured in museums, art galleries, urban spaces, and over 200 international film festivals. Tetelbaum supported Pedro Almodóvar at a special screening at Argentina's Public Library of Congress, where her film "Joy" was presented alongside Almodóvar's "Pain and Glory." She exhibited "Black Chalk" at venues such as the BFI British Film Institute in London, MALBA The Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires, The Swedenborg Society, and various other art galleries and museums. She has also collaborated with Marta Minujín at Frieze New York and with Amalia Pica at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

"Kitchen" (2022) is a 28-minute immersive video installation, a tapestry woven from the threads of improvised dance theater. Following two days of movement and film laboratory, each dancer embodies their unique character, their movements polished by individual journeys. Guided by the director and choreographer, a jam session unfurls, a canvas where body narratives paint the air. Within this space, time stretches and contracts, inviting viewers to traverse the boundary between observer and participant. Upon

 entering the space, the character shifts into a situation unfolding there. Upon exiting the space, the character became the viewer. An interesting aspect of this experience was a certain "expansion" of time and space - a viewer who, in one moment, became a performer-actor in the next, creating an intriguing shift in perception, during which the camera only captured a part of the kitchen.

Maria is a contemporary film director and performance artist from Belarus, currently based in Berlin. Since 2019 she started filmmaking in the field of screen dance and exploring narrative/non-narrative cinema. the main focus of maria’s working process is the creation of conditions for structured improvisation. through her practice, she explores the space in between elements as a way to search for indirect, but more precise statements. space and form are the primary sources of expression in her filming process. the performative body, which experiences a specific situation, becomes a translucent space. “translucent space” in the understanding of the artist is the recollection of experiences that leaves an imprinted trace. for the artist the process of creating each work is equally correlated with the final outcome and is a way of interacting with reality that is captured by the camera, changing in the process, but preserving the grain of sincere experience. Key points of maria’s research interests: the dialogue, the body as a conductor and medium, conceptual body language, body in space, narrative and non-narrative cinematic nature, the space in between something specific and nonspecific, falling body, home and the seeking of belonging through the shift of the perception. 

While sorting through her grandmother's things after her death, Smriti came across a trunk full of her grandfather's clothes that her grandmother had put away after his very sudden and early demise. She embarks upon remembrance, which is also the meaning of her name.

Smriti Mehra is an artist and educator from Bangalore, India. Moving image forms a large part of her practice. As a storyteller, she employs ethnographic research methods to unearth local perspectives in her non-fiction practice. Interacting with Bangalore’s ever-changing, ever-growing residents with their multi- lingual, cultural, economic backgrounds she has become a mapmaker of sorts. Mapping the desires, hopes, needs, dreams and disparities of this city from her vantage point has been born out of a desire to establish reference points for her own personal memories. She is both a purveyor of information, and storyteller and like the mapmaker challenged by taking the mundane and every day and unravelling and reassembling these details into visible intricacies. Her work deals with issues of labour, material culture, identity and memory and has shown widely internationally. Mehra earned her MFA in Media Art from NSCAD University at Halifax in Canada with a scholarship from the AAUW Educational Foundation. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Centre for Experimental Media Art and has taught at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, India. She currently teaches at the Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK.

What did you give your attention to today? What held it? What wanted it? Did it nourish you? Did it consume you?

Oli Isaac is a London-based playwright and poet, who likes to write tender poems about their tender thoughts. They are interested in how language can fail us, and how experiments in poetry and multimedia can attempt to cross that gap. Oli is a recipient of Audible Theatre’s Emerging Playwrights Fund and most recently the winner of the 2024 Verve Poetry Festival Competition. They have previously been selected as a lead artist for the Barbican x CRIPtic showcase and the BBC’s Word’s First festival. Oli is an alumni of Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab, Roundhouse Poetry Collective and the Apples & Snakes’ Writing Room, as well as a current member of Barbican Young Poets. Their work has been screened at over a dozen international film festivals, published in Rattle Magazine and Bath Magg, and performed at the Barbican Centre (Conservatory, Art Gallery & Pit), Edinburgh Fringe, Latitude Festival, VAULT Festival and Hay Festival.

「In the video, I find myself struggling with altered human bodies that are fighting to establish dominance in a battle where a mutated value system of inequality, militarization, hostility, and terror prevails. It's a repetitive process of sinking and resurfacing into desires, fears, emotions, and relationships of violence that structure the global hierarchy and draw from colonization. Our individuality spreads underwater, our bodies lose their boundaries, and they become an inseparable part of the cosmos. Is this interconnection of interdependence what will bring us back into an equitable relationship with ourselves and the world?」

Born in Patra, Greece in 1975. He works predominantly in Digital Arts. He completed an MFA with distinction at the Athens School of Fine Arts in 2004 and completed the postgraduate course of (ASFA), in Digital Arts. Selection of Screenings: 2021. "Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin". Paris, France.2021. "34. STUTTGARTER FILMWINTER FESTIVAL FOR EXPANDED MEDIA", Stuttgart, Germany.2020. 12/13.09. Lecture and screening. “Münchner Science and Fiction Festival”. Moscow, Russia. 2020. "6th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition 2018", Hong-Gah Museum. Taipei, Taiwan. 2018 "STOCKHOLM FRINGE FESTIVAL | STOFF 2018". Stockholm, Sweden. 2016 «Bideodromo Festival 2016», «INTERNACIONAL EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL», Guggenheim. Bildeo, Spain.

The video, Mom’s Story, was filmed during the last year of her life when she had dementia. Despite her condition, she always found a way to express her love. I captured her aspirations in an audio recording from a prior decade. I wanted to link her story to mine, the next generation.

Chanika Svetvilas is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural worker focused on mental health differences. Her practice uses narratives to challenge contemporary stereotypes and create safe spaces. She has presented her work at the College Art Association Conference, the Society for Disability Studies Annual Conference, and the Pacific International Conference on Disability and Diversity. Her exhibitions include the Denver International Airport, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Brooklyn Public Library, Asian Arts Initiative, and Wexner Center for the Arts. Her work is published in Disability Studies Quarterly, "Studying Disability, Arts, and Culture: An Introduction" by Petra Kuppers, and "A Body You Can Talk To: An Anthology of Contemporary Disability," edited by Tennison S. Black. Svetvilas co-founded ThaiLinks in New York City, promoting Thai American community issues, and the biennial Thai Takes Film Festival. Born in Buffalo, NY, to Thai immigrant parents, Svetvilas earned a BS from Skidmore College and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. She was the artist-in-residence at the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab at Princeton University for the 2022-23 academic year.