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Image credit: Lloyd Wong Unfinished, by Lesley Loski Chan (2025)
Both fable and ode to plants, The Everlasting Pea is a short film that explores our human relationship with the botanic world. Journeying through ancient ruins, mysterious dreamscapes, and ethereal otherworldly plant images, the story moves between a scientist who anaesthetizes a pea plant, questioning plant awareness and our… ⊕
2016, 08:15 minutes, colour
tapecode 558.24
Ideas about how we live in the world as humans, the difficulties faced, the conditions of our brief existence, accompany us consciously or unconsciously, overtly or subliminally as we go about our daily lives. The video quotes images from art and film and texts from various philosophies to conjure the fraught and beautiful… ⊕
2024, 18:27 minutes, colour
tapecode 948.13
A collage of personal and public accounts, The Image Remains the Same contemplates water as an allegory of journeys filled with desire, belonging, hope, and demise stretching from the shores of the Pacific Ocean in Los Angeles to the Mediterranean Sea in Lebanon, specifically the El-Mina port, where Ali El-Darsa speaks to… ⊕
"Multi-media artist Kelly Mark has long been interested in the obsession of television in our culture and in technology’s gradual replacement of human interaction. Her light box entitled The Kiss was derived from an installation included in her Glow Video Series that Mark produced using reflected light as a primary… ⊕
Throughout the 20th century, the Wereldmuseum (former Tropenmuseum)—Amsterdam’s most prominent museum of ethnography—has accumulated more than 150,000 objects from colonized regions worldwide. Today, these objects are obsessively polished, dusted, and neatly ordered, revealing an underlying anxiety connected… ⊕