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Far Away
STATEMENT:
Far Away was produced in Nina Katchadourian and Eve Meltzer’s Video art workshop, in which we traced the history of video and examined video as both an art medium and a social/cultural phenomenon. For this particular project, I was prompted to turn the camera on myself while considering the self-reflexiveness and self-reflectiveness of videos. I chose to engage with Rosalind Krause’s text on the narcissistic and performative nature of video art and reflected on how I personally experienced being a performer in front of video cameras. As an international student away from home, I found video calls to be a significant channel through which I maintained some of my most important relationships. Therefore, I decided to look at how video has influenced/shaped those relationships. In the making of this video, I started out with the archived video message I sent to my grandpa and accounted for the process of my attempt to rebuild familial connections.
BIO:
Vivian Xing is an international student from Ningbo, China. She’s a senior at Gallatin concentrating in the role of image in individual and social reality, with a minor in social entrepreneurship. Xing explores different art mediums, including drawing, Chinese painting, photography, and videography. Usually starting from the inquiry of her relationship with nature and society, Xing aims to invite her audience to reflect upon their shared experiences, emotions, and memories as a collective.
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