Email-Interview mit Tiong Ang
dear pia
as you know, I communicate from Indonesian internetcafe's online, not very ideal
place to rethink Germany! So here are some short answers:
my bio, you mean how I developed? I think the GaleriefZgK has a yellow catalogue
of mine, maybe you can borrow it - Not Dark Yet, 1998. I was a painter, then
installations, then collaborative projects (performative and interactive) in
which video plays the most important role. Now video is my main medium, along
still with paintings and installations. In recent years I have been travelling a
lot and the method of video has become semi-documentary and travelogue style.
Mostly used in video -installations, in very small fragments.
i have very good memories working in Leipzig - it's really 1 of my favourite
projects. working, playing, improvising and discussing with some very nice
people, being very much involved with the city's recent past and its changes. I
think the project was a very involved yet payfull attempt to open a new
perspective on the hopes and disappointments of the Leipziger people. Yes i think
we, since it was a group effort, captured the emotions and atmosphere of Leipzig
(before) 1989 quite well, really better than the original movie Nikolaikirche.
I'm in Indonesia to work on a collaborative project and exhibition in Cemeti Art
House, Yogyakarta. One of my projects is a video with two local actors, from the
small but intense experimental theater scene here. It wil be based on the gameof
badminton, as a setting of national pride maybe, but really it is about the
relationship of man and woman, they are to play mixed double final. The focus is
on faces of victory and/of defeat.
bye,
Tiong Ang
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