Both Sides Now II – It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times?

Both Sides Now 2 attempts, through moving image works, to explore national identity and culture, and to raise questions about both China & Hong Kong and the UK. Comparisons between both countries arise – revolution and referendum, richness and austerity, lions and tigers. And unicorns.

Both Sides Now 2 – It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times is the second phase of a long-term project that proposes (historical) re-readings of artists’ moving image from Hong Kong, China and the UK. By selecting video works of art, animations and documentary films, produced by Hong Kong and UK artists from 1989 to 2014, the project will reinterpret the experience of here and now by looking into the potentially excluded and forgotten moving images of Hong Kong.

In the new edition, videoclub (UK) and Videotage (HK) bring together internationally-recognised artists from the fields of video and film during a several month-long programme from June – August 2015. To build on the ideas posited from the success of Both Sides Now – Somewhere between Hong Kong and the UK, 15 art organisations in the UK, China and Hong Kong will take part in various extensive screenings, exhibitions and artists-in-residence programmes.

Participating Artists

China Artists:
LU Yang 陸揚
Shi Zheng 施政

Hong Kong Artists:
Angela SU 徐世琪
Birdy CHU 朱迅
Chloe CHEUK 卓思潁
CHOI Sai Ho 蔡世豪
CHOW Chun Fai 周俊輝
DDED
Ellen PAU 鮑藹倫
Jo LAW 羅頌雅
João Vasco PAIVA
Kacey WONG 黃國才
LAW Yuk Mui 羅玉梅
Linda LAI 黎肖嫻
MAP Office 古儒郎 林海華
One Letter Horse 一字馬
Silas FONG 方琛宇
Valéry GRANCHER
WONG Ping 黃炳

UK Artists:
David BLANDY
Lucy CLOUT
Anita DELANEY
Benedict DREW
Rachel MACLEAN
Ben RIVERS
Daniel SHANKEN
Marianna SIMNETT