Lily Jue Sheng – Screening
Screening Reception: Wednesday, November 18 | 6-9pm
This screening of recent video and film works by Lily Jue Sheng becomes a performative event with live synthesis by Michael Sidnam and a collaborative expanded cinema with Antonia Kuo. In her larger body of work, Sheng moves fluidly between video and film in an investigation of the moving image using traditional and new technology that often looks to animation and formal abstraction. Creating a dense, multi-sensory experience, the artist manipulates abstract imagery to respond to and react against a synthetic musical score. With no orienting point to hold on to, the viewer is swept up in an optical narrative constructed by clashing and weaving abstract patterns.
-Linnea West, Curator
Works in Screening:
– Mercurial Matter, 6 min., 16mm to video, sound by Mike Sidnam
– Lox Moon (from Jonas Reinhardt’s Ganymede), 5 min., 16 mm to video, sound by Jonas Reinhardt
– Kabukicho, 8 min., 16mm, live sound by Mike Sidnam
– Point, Line, Plane, created with Antonia Kuo, 11 min., 16 mm dual film projection, live sound by Mike Sidnam
– Force Majeure, 3 min., 16 mm B&W film, live sound by Mike Sidnam
Biography
Lily Jue Sheng is a moving image artist working primarily in still motion, collage, and expanded cinema forms. She graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA, and is currently based in Queens, NY. Her work has exhibited internationally at cinemas, festivals, galleries, museums, and performance spaces such as Eyebeam, the MoMA PS1 Print Shop, and Center for Performance Research in New York City; the Museum of Fine Arts and Mobius in Boston; the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in Montreal; Centro Cultural de España in Mexico City; and the 1933 Slaughterhouse in Shanghai. In July 2016, she will be an artist-in-residence at the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto.
*Lily Jue Sheng, Mercurial Matter, 2015, video (still)